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[A very small] snippet of a comic i’m working on.

Paper hats! Our collaborative piece was made using paper and tissue paper, inspired by the textures, details, and structure of a dragon fly. 

Leaf study, one using black and white ink, the other using masking tape to build form and texture of a leaf, and layering up with graphite to build tone. While i found using ink very difficult, i love how the first leaf turned out (which i think looks better unfinished!)

I loved manipulating the ink on the paper, and how quickly it dried, too, making it easy to overlap in tone. It had a very graphic outcome which i loved, and will definitely be doing again! However, i didn’t like it so much when i using the ink with a brush, as it was too controlled and felt less powerful compared to the unpredictable organic shapes spilling and manipulating it made. While i wasn’t too keen on how it turned out, i’ve definitely found a technique i love!

I was fascinated by the reflections in the water, and wasn’t sure where to take it, so started off with experimenting with red ink and drew from a photo of the reflection that I’d taken. The reflection in the ink pot i was using made me think about recreating a reflection of a drawing of the plants. So, i did a test run, using tracing paper and a pallet filled with diluted red paint water, which worked out. I then did a collages drawing of different pictures i’d taken from kew using oil pastels for texture, and hung up the drawing against a window and took a picture of the reflection. I feel as though it didn’t work how i wanted to, and would need to work on a larger scale for it to maybe work better, as well as a different paint water colour (other than red). Rippling the water was fun though, as it was a natural way to distort an image without using computers.

Both primary and secondary recordings from Kew

Pictures I took to record specific things I found interesting, like the decaying mushroom, to the bark on different trees in the greenhouse, to shadows and reflections.

I was fascinated by the texture, line and shape of the tree trunk and branches of these particular photos.