A Visual Journal: Texture and Collage

Today (having been ill for a few days) was mostly spent catching up on work that I'd missed. I began by created several textures that evoked an intangible sense of my motifs.

I made these with the knowledge that I was going to use them to create images using the motifs of 'war' and 'urban decay'. I decided to drop the 'product' motif for this task due to the nature of forcing it to work alongside the prior two motifs. My first attempt used a bright colour theme that I felt didn't work with the tone of my motifs so I decided to limit the use of colour within the work. My initial pieces didn't work too well either due to the fact I was hurriedly throwing them together. So I took a step back and thought about what I was exactly trying to convey intangibly.

These later pieces worked better as I, for the most part, kept the same format (distant shot of a city) and tweaked different aspects to allow varying degrees of results. This task reminded me that I enjoy collage work but where can I go from here with it?