Self directed drawing project.

Buildings inspire me. 

Groups of buildings in cities or housing estates or isolated buildings. 

What interests me is how they relate to people.  Old buildings have a sense of history even if they are no longer in use.  New buildings are usually still being used by the people who live or work in or around the buildings.

Examples of modern buildings, which inspire me, are the De Montfort University Campus Buildings and the office buildings and new library in Birmingham city center.

An older building that has had a particular impact on me is Baddesley Clinton. Because of it’s sense of history and place.

In my drawing project, I would like to explore how to give an impression of "story" or "history" when drawing buildings - what is it that gives an impression of something more than just a building? 

I think this will be a good topic for trying out different compositions, mark making, dark and light, contrast and colour. I also aim to work with texture, perhaps including different materials in the drawing to create layers and added interest. To get a sense of what the building actually feels like when you view it.

I hope that the work in this project will feed into my lens-based work, which is around the same theme.  I am interested in work that could almost be the "story board" for a film or theatre production.

The artists whose work I shall research are Rut Blees Luxemburg, Annie Leibovitz (Pilgrimage work) and George Shaw. I hope to discover some new artists in this project to help improve my work.