More Ivy Pictures..

Ivy.

Lovely Lovely Ivy. While on my adventures looking for urban gardens I noticed how ivy makes its own way through the city and in turn becomes part of the city's garden. Someone advised me to stick to one piece of nature so i think i will try to focus on ivy. I quiet like the different layers of ivy. You don't know exactly what is underneath ie. the wall, its anchoring function etc. I want to still want to explore textures and different techniques. Layering might be an interesting thought too. For now i want to get to know the ivy ie. its patterns, shapes etc.

This blog has become very temperamental. It doesn't like my links or anything I would like to put up in general so I'm going to try once more to show my progress development over the last while and also show a few pictures on what I have been working on so far (if they decide to upload this time!).

As I think I've mentioned before, at the start I found this project very tedious and at some points frustrating but I think I'm on the right road at long last :)

My initial plan was to explore the Elderly in the city but that wasn't going to plan unfortunately so I began to explore their personal environments i.e., where they lived, their houses etc. Eventually I landed in a garden of a house. I found this really interesting for some reason. I liked the idea of someone choosing to live in an Urban Environment like a town or city, but still feeling the need for some nature in their lives and so, they physically put it there. I started off with some observational drawing and since then I have started Prints. Last week I did a simple Lino Print just to get the hang of it. I enjoyed the process, even though it took longer than I planned. This week I plan to try out more print work maybe some Monoprints.

I have an idea of trying to combine the textures of nature with surfaces I find in the city. Maybe mix or swap the two. I think this might be a good way to explore different textures.

My aim for the next while is to develop new techniques and exhaust my investigations until the last. Hopefully this will work out :)

Fingers crossed this posts this time :)