Jane Horton

This selection has a bit too much black I think, and fewer formal elements to grab hold of, but I might try working with this one too.

This is more like it, there are some interesting marks here including part that looks like a fish or bird eye. It’s cleaner and simpler. I wonder if this is how Kandinsky worked ? I had him in mind once I got going with my image. I found it hard to start, but really got into it once I had a couple of layers to add to.

I picked three area of the image to consider. This is too large a selection with too much going on.

The next part of the exercise is to pick a small selection of the image to create another image. So, I prowled around the image picking sections with viewfinders, and then digitally cropped the best composed selections to choose one to work from.

This image, which I have called Directions, was created as part of an exercise to produce an image intuitively by listening to a piece of music: in this case Bach’s Lute Suite in E Minor played by John Williams. The image was created with Brusho powder/crystal colours, Indian ink, wax and bleach.

Here’s one of the pages relating to this exercise from my learning log.

One of the reasons I enjoyed this exercise so much was that it allowed me to gain satisfying results at speed.  I like to work fast and get results fast.

This is the other one, perhaps stronger than the other one because there is greater distance within the image?  I thoroughly enjoyed this exercise, and found it easy to create a range of images that I felt were effective in some way. (The detail of this exercise is written up in my paper based learning log).

This was one of the best two results from the first exercise of section 3 of the illustration course.  I did loads of samples, first cutting and moving the objects around and photographing them, and then used an iPad app called Mixel which allows you to create collages really easily. The two strongest results are similar.  I think they work best because they have a bit of mystery about them and could be layered with a number of different meanings.