I adventured on a couple of field trips outside the Leeds area with the idea of silence in my mind.
I decided to head to Ilkley first.
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| I had a go at some reportage with some ink of a humongous bird flying around. because i was doing this in the wild i didn't really have any water so i kept getting a dry brush but i really liked the textures that this brought. |
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| similar to the one above i made an observation of all the benches i could see in the moors and placed them all together at the time i was surprised by how many benches there where in the moors especially because no one really sat in any of them and a few where definitely hard to get to but the main purpose for these benches are memorials. I used ink with a dry brush again and i liked some of the lines that this created for example some of the lines came out as double lines dues the the brush hairs being split. I liked this technique and could be interesting to see it being experimented with perhaps colour or using other things as a brush, perhaps some the things surrounding me like leaves. |
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| I thought i would attempt to craft a paper cut image from life but it was quite hard cause of the breeze. i also used coloured ink over it i'm not really sure if i like it though i think there are some elements i like such as the colours and the texture that the tissue paper brings. Although i think the red ink on the green isn't a great colour combination. The image is also relatively empty but i wanted to represent the fact that there was nothing else around me but the things within in the image. |
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| I wondered if it would be effective doing leaf prints. I had a ink pad and stamped some autumn leaves on it and i think it made an interesting texture it did make my ink pad dirty however. I started doing that first and thought of doing a whole page but then decided to incorporate it with the view around. |
I tried a few drawing experiments within these trips which i definitely enjoyed and will continue to work with. In terms of silence I found it difficult to find silence on my own
as i felt like my brain was working extra hard to create conversations in my head
to make me feel less bored while i was walking.
This gave me an idea to then go out and record these thoughts to potentially add more
of myself to my work and research.
