flower pressing/pva layering

1. I picked several different types of flowers from my garden and put them in between pieces of tracing paper.
2. After doing this I found a world atlas to put them between.
3. I had to leave them to dry out in the atlas for 10 days before I could remove them.
4. After waiting 10 days to take them out of the atlas I took them out and took them to college with me.
5. I was deciding how to present them in my book and I had an original plan of just using watercolour to decorate the page. I then came up with the more exciting idea of putting them on top of a collage.
6. To create the collage I used scrap bits of paper from my printing and also prints that hadn't turned out as I desired.
7. To preserve the flowers I embedded them in pva glue so they became less delicate to handle and make them easier to put into my book.

Multicolour Leaf prints

 I collected leaves on my way home from college on Thursday and then brought them in the next day. These in particular prints are on newspaper. I started off with a yellow base then did the red then finally did the black layer.

Poison Ivy finnished version

I scanned this in from my sketchbook and then adjusted contrast and exposure on Photoshop. I also added a watermark in the corner.I then saved it as a medium quality photo and as a jpg and uploaded it to my blogger profile.

Inspiration for this drawing/painting

I chose Poison Ivy as my inspiration as i'm looking into creating illustrative characters from observing particular plants and animals. She is a villain from Dc comics.

Here are some different ways she's been drawn by other people.

Original sketches of ivy

I decided to draw poison ivy from dc comics because I want to look into making my own characters/self portrait from observing plants and wildlife. My next step will be to look for artist research, do some plant prints, do a self portrait , make a character by observing wildlife and then exploring metamorphosis.

Finished painting/sketch will follow after this.

 

nature painting

Batik in crystal pattern unit

In my last unit I did some work in creating patterns from microscopic photos of natural sources e.g. crystals.
Here is an example of how I generated random natural ideas.
Here I used batik and  I then crumpled the wax and painted disperse dye into the cracks.
It created a crystal like pattern.
I scanned in the images and adjusted the hue, saturation and contrast on photoshop.
I then watermarked all of them.
This technique of batik was then used in my final project to make my scarves.

Wildlife Photography Watermarking

I took these photos on my educational trip to brandon hill. My aim was to take photos of wildlife that  could use  later on in my project.

I decided to watermark these photos to protect them from copyright.

I did this by uploading the photos onto to photoshop and adjusting contrast and lighting.

I then went onto the text tool and selected a size and font for my watermark.

I then typed in my name and went onto to layers to adjust the opacity to make it almost transparent.
I saved it on high quality as a JPEG and then uploaded it to blogger.