Wed 03.04.13

Over the last couple of days I have continued Monday’s work and tried to get my context book done. I am happy with the layout of the pages now, although this took quite a while to do. I have also left out some of the images so far, ones which are less important in terms of making thumbnail drawings or colour swatches from and I will just have these around me when I am working and stick them down properly later so that I can get on with the next stages of my project sooner. On the first few pages so far I have added little squares of colour swatches and some small pencil drawings about design ideas and patterns which I have picked out of the images. I have also added notes about the artists, what I like about the images and my own ideas about how to incorporate these things into my work. I am pleased with the overall look and feel that it looks quite professional and well done. It is a scrapbook, but it isn’t hectic and overcrowded like some of my scrapbook work in the past has been.

When creating the colour swatches I looked really carefully at the tones within the images and picked out a selection which I thought made an interesting range when combined together. But finding the colours in other artists work or within secondary sources I was able to branch out from the somewhat limited palate that I can see within my imagination and think more openly about all the different colour palates that I could use.

I am hoping to get started on some more observational drawing tomorrow as I am going to visit the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, which is a collection of anthropology and archaeology from around the world. I am hoping to find some interesting artefacts here which are useful from a decorative perspective, but I am also keen to find things which have cultural/historical significance. I have done some research today into how to get to the museum and what is in the collections so that I can effectively use my day.