For this I created a series of drawings of townscapes and areas around my house. I found this very challenging to do at home as all the houses where I live have the exact same shape and I also only have windows on 2 sides on my house, meaning no matter what room I went in, I had the same view and a slightly different angle which did not alter the view in a noticeable way.
Both of these drawings are A3 and in my opinion are very strong. In the first one, I used gel pain and water, chalk pastel and water and some charcoal and water. I feel like it worked well as I used wet on dry meaning the marks made by the pen and chalk pastel can still be seen, giving it a nice messy affect.
The second drawing was done with black pen and filled in with water colour. I like how this turned out as Nike-t some white spaces and it shows the quick nature of the drawing, making this one of my favourites.
As I was looking into a street with the same houses, I had to alter how I was looking at things so for this A2 piece I decided to go up stairs and look slightly up, getting the tops of a house and a trees. For this I used chalk pastel and oil pastel. I am not a big fan of oil pastel however I feel like the end result was strong.
For these I had to get creative and look at things around my garden and the negative spaces. For the first drawing I looked at the gap between my house and my gate and the second I just focused on my fence. For both I completely soaked the page (A2) and went over it with chalk pastel and water colour to get the final outcome.
Using water and chalk pastel I feel like this could have been stronger if I was more confident in letting the water manipulate my chalk pastel.
This A2 piece is my favourite. I focused on the edge of my house and completely soaked my page. I then put water colour all over using different colours and let the water manipulate how it fell and blended together. Once dry I used a black fine liner and put in details such as the bricks. As my grey water colour wasn’t strong enough to cover my page I had to use watered down acrylic paint however I really liked the outcome of this.
This drawing was to bring our attention to shades and the lights and darks of the space around us using the flat edge of our charcoal. The only problem I had with this was that my charcoal was running out and I could not completely the drawing to the extent I wanted to.