Intentions- visual research

Amy and I sat outside one morning, I feel that the mornings are a great time to draw as they are quite busy and have a fresh feel. 

I tried to capture the texture of the bricks and the arches, the buildings in the distance we're quite difficult to draw but once again I wasn't trying to draw perfect, I was just getting the feel of the scene. I enjoy working with graphite and using other softer pencils to create darker lines. 

Drawing blind by looking at the building I tried to get things drawn in an abstract way. I like the teal writing and think because I wears only looking at the sign I capture the font well.

I thought of manchester museum as the building is amazing so thought the inside would have interesting shapes. Carrying on with the rectangle theme I seem to have going on, the stairs and cabinets we're perfect to draw.

I wanted to change the way I was drawing so played around with this one. I had different media in both hands and looked at the stairs whilst I drew them. It creates a kind of semetrical look but doesn't really look like the stairs. I could improve this on photoshop by repeating the print.

Standing in the glass hall way of the museum to look out to the city worked well. The contrast of buildings abled me to use different media to get the feel of them, as they all we're different especially the museum as it's an old building. I already had the wash on the background and reflected the mood quite well as the day was dull anyway. I like to work quite abstract and picking up the different block colours from the scaffolding and the drain pipes adds a splash of colour. I enjoyed drawing this and could improve by drawing it on a bigger scale to get more detail of the different buildings. As I'm specialising into print I think my work will consist of rectangular shapes with repeats and layers. My colour palette is mainly blues, greys and tones of greens with splashes of colour. This I think reflects the mood of Manchester as during visual research it's been quite gloomy and rainy (no surprise there).  

During the summer I visited Amsterdam, the place is stunning and the buildings are beautiful. The structure and linear qualities are perfect for this project. I like how the windows are repeated and some are different to others with little separated windows in each.