Drawing Experiments

This week we started our Final Major Project which is super super important and even more super stressful. On Friday we had a drawing lesson to just start us off drawing more experimentally and generating ideas. The theme of my project is 'The Every Day' so I was working with drawing every day food packaging, inspired by John Bratby's Jean and Table Top (1953-4) which I saw in the Grave's art gallery this week and includes branded food items to give a sense of realism and normality.
We had to make drawings and then work back into them, ripping up and reconstituting, and then developing in other ways. It was important to use a lot of different media and we were working to short time limits (like 2 minutes to a drawing).
Anyway forgive the horrible quality iPod photos.

I like the way the black ink looks on the brown paper and also the touches of blue in this one. I don't really like the pale patch though; I think it's too big and distracts from the overall image. I could think about masking some of it in some way. But I think the mix of different textures and materials works well as it adds interest.

This one is made out of lots of different elements of drawings put together. I think it's ended up looking a but too busy and cluttered. In future I could work on leaving more negative space and considering the composition more. The colour scheme I think is interesting though because it's not colours I would normally use. I also used some mathematical tables as background material which I think adds a good texture and unexpected element.

 I did this one on a long thin strip of paper really small, because I usually work pretty big and wanted to add some variation. I really like the colour palette of this because it's very limited but effective and cute. I'm really pleased with how it turned out. I want to try working on a small scale more.

This is a development of the previous image where I've photocopied it repeatedly to make a pattern. I think it works pretty well although it does look quite abstract. Again the colours are pretty good and I like the contrast between the bold stripes and thin lines. I'd like to do some more work with pattern later on.

Streetview experiments

After looking at the work of Mik Godley, particularly his 'Bus Trips' project where he paints from Google streetviews, this gave me the idea to look at using streetview to develop my project on journeys, as it seemed pretty appropriate. This led me to also discover the work of Paulo Cirio, who creates installations by taking the images of people caught on camera in streetview and pasting them to walls in the location where it was captured, creating ghostly impressions. Instead of taking things out of streetview, I wanted to try doing the opposite, and add my drawings in instead. I've been roughly experimenting with this in Photoshop.

 This one worked out the best because it's zoomed in enough to see the detail. With the one before the drawn sections are all too small and not very noticable. I also like the subtle introduction of colour that can be done through the drawings.

This was one just experimenting with combining the satellite view of a route with the drawn page.. I'm not sure how well this works tbh.. I like the contrasting of textures though.

Just looking at these images and the ones from before, I can see that I could work on changing the colour palettes of these ones to tie in better, although I'm not sure how I'll be able to do this whilst still maintaining realism.