Inspiration

I have finally decided to focus on ice and recording light,

as the jagged shard-like shapes in both themes marry very well visually.

Below are various images from the internet thathave been inspiring me.

Alkahest - Jonathon Saiz, asbestos macro

Water uder ice, shell detail, polygon shoulder

Various ice on windows, macro, layered film photography



Russell Leng - Grey Shards

Colour inspiration

I printed off some of my photographs simply to show the rest of the group, but I realised afterwards that I  liked the way they had ended up on the page as they showed the colour range really well. Here are three different colour ranges that I could potentially use, where I picked the key colur from each image and display them in stripes.



Technical drawing


I really enjoyed the process of drawing flats - its a very theraputic thing to do! In the seesion we each drew a shirt to scale and as soon as I came home I started rummaging through my wardrobe to find things of interest to draw.

Manchester Art Gallery Paper Cut Exhibition

I had already been to visit the Paper Cut exhibition on multiple occasions, but it was only on this particular visit that I began to notice the shadows that the work created. It seemed to perfectly tie in with this idea of recording light which I have been exploring, and made me begin to think about using paper cutting in my own project.



Papercuts

It was whilst discussing what had worked well within my data drawings that Mary prompted that I should use techniques and materials that I enjoy - leading me towards paper cutting. I love the graphic way it portrays an image, but I'm not sure whether it is too heavy and solid a technique to reflect my theme of recording light.



Data drawing

I really enjoyed the challenge of doing at least one drawing everyday for such a long period. My first few drawing were very rigid and straightforward, but it was interesting to see how my drawing style became more fluid with frequent practice. My ideas also began to develop so that by the end of the project I had opened up lots of interesting ideas.

Picking only 8 drawings from over 40 was a tricky matter though.....

Here I tried to pick drawing that reflected the variety of styles and themes within my work.

Primary research

Over the holidays I took a lot of photographs of varying subjects to try and explore the data theme. Here are some of the most interesting and intriguing images that I thought would be good starting points in my project.

I liked the swirling patterns of the steam,

and the way the light captures all the colours.

These images were taken at night using a slow shutter speed

- I liked the idea of recording how the light travels.

Above and below are a collection of images that I found inspiring

but haven't quite decided how they fit into my project at this point.

Chinese Arts Centre exhibition opening