So this week, I've been really engaged in creating marks with all of the random materials we brought with us to the Boboli gardens. I just decided that I would be really loose with my mark-making, and not try to capture what I was drawing exactly, but get the feel of it. I would sit in one spot for hours and draw the same sculpture 5 or 6 times with various techniques, seeing what worked the best and what didn't. After my time spent in the gardens, I went back to studio just exploring more ways of creating marks with water, ink, charcoal and other natural materials. I think I'm going to try to layer some of the grounds that I created or take shapes from some of my drawings and make patterns from them. I seem to always go back to design, but I don't see why I can't merge my frenzy of mark-making with my more controlled creation of pattern.
Yesterday I spent hours just seeing what taking the lighter to the paper would create. It ended up making these random, amoeba-like shapes that would make a great stencil or easily transferable to illustrator for further manipulation. I loved the way I could create neutral tones with how long I held the lighter, or how I could direct the way the flame burned by charring the paper first in certain areas.
I finished one more 3-D design project with my plastic horse-leg cutouts and then I decided that it would lose the desired effect if I made it large, so I just sewed the rest together and let it be.
Oh and a lot of the pictures I put up are of new grounds/found drawings I discovered that maybe I'll use later.
