Drawing Statement

For my drawing project I explored the theme of places, looking at exterior. The places I focused on were Leicester and Birmingham, as they are places I am particularly familiar with. 

I wanted to explore the use of marks and different colour schemes I hope to create atmosphere in the scenes that I depict by using different material such as tape and pen the images should have dimension. 

Artists that have been a particular influence have been Laura Oldfield Ford, Michael Craig Martin, Luc Tuyman and George Shaw. Because of their subject matter and choice of material, Michael Craig Martin influenced the idea of using tape, however I tried to make the tape different by cutting it at different width. Using a mixture of materials like tape and charcoal brings different values of black, which I find visually, compliment each other. I tried to change the colour combinations to try and discover what works best; I also wanted to explore the use of lots of detail and then very minimal detail.

I found working on a smaller scale worked better for me as I could demonstrate more detail in the places that I wanted to depict, when I tried to paint bigger the places almost seemed lost and I felt that was not what I was aiming for so decided to keep with the smaller sizes. This also meant that I could develop more of them as a body of work. 

What I would like to develop further is the use of mixed media, using different materials such as tape, charcoal, pen and paint on a deeper level and creates multiple layers of the scenes to create an image that makes you want to touch the paper to feel the different textures within it. 

I feel as though I have not yet been able to explore this as I only started using tape and different media's near the end of the project.