Collage Experiment

After creating my process books I wanted to explore layout more, specifically how different images can visually work together. I love gathering images and scans from old books and other printed materials. I tend to also work a lot with found image and conceptually love the idea of re-contextualising images using the digital. I’ve recently begun collecting screen shots from films of scenes and frames which stick out to me.

I used my scans of some doodles from a sketchbook as a starting point converting the image to black and white using the photocopier.

I then separated this line drawing I liked and layered it on itself to create a suggestion of depth accentuating the vanishing point

This got me thinking about line bringing me to a book on the artists Anthony Gross. I picked out this particularly busy image. I felt in this format it wasn’t been seen in it’s full potential by digitising it and giving it more space and see more detail in the image.

I’d previously been working in black and white and the lead of the Sea Scape as illustrated by Gross bought me scan an old abandoned old painting or layering experiment in which I was painting a coastal scene. I was limited by the size of the scanner so had to crop and reframe my painting thinking about areas that would work as a background to me layering experiments.

I then began digitally layering everything, working with black and white line.

This was a purely visual break from the heavy research I’m doing. I would of liked to have merged my own line drawing with that of Gross’ more to encourage a greater abstraction. This was a starting point to a 3D animation in the works using the software blender.