The Beginnings of Final Major Project....

As promised, with a uni place confirmed the work for final major is now properly underway! Thought i'd give you a little peek into my sketchbook tonight and give you an idea of what's to come.

The project is based on the view from a train window, which sounds a bit boring I know, but it all began on the train to Falmouth (on which I was becoming gradually more bored) and I noticed that when the train pulled into the station, I could get a little man-made view through the window, into the lives of the other people travelling that day. It makes it all the more special that because of the blacked out windows, they can't actually see you looking at them (and it makes it much less embarassing to be a bit of a stalker artist). So I decided this would make an epic illustration project.

(Some of the images that became my inspiration below)

 

 

After a while (and a bit more boredom) instead of taking individual shots I decided to do a continuous ream of photos in order to create a sort of basic animation of the journey through each platform. Here's a bit of the experimentation for that. The idea is that will develop into a conceptual video with black space in between each piece, during which I will play noise recorded from train stations, many research trips needed...

 And now to the illustration section of the project. For the next few weeks i'll be experimenting with different combinations of media to produce a collage of people standing on a platform, using photography (both black/white and full colour), collography, etching, drawing, painting and a bit of textiles. So stay tuned for that. Here's a few sketchbook pages with ideas and sketches to keep you going. More soon!