The dark side..

Drawing on a larger scale developing ideas of feathers and how they are protective also linking to the idea of the dark and edgy feel to the birds.

 

Structure

After my intial research I started to broaden my search on wildlife and looked in depth at birds and butterflies, I felt this was an exciting idea as the two are opposite to one another, butterflies are fragile and colour where as birds I feel are robust and protective and almost quite vicious. I want to explore more into this idea of birds being protective and almost dark and edgy with lots of layers. I started to draw from my images zooming in on areas to find some exciting patterns.

I feel these drawings have a dark feel to them, they portray the idea of the bird  being almost dangerous and unknown. As if they are hidding something. I likehow expressive the drawings are. I plan to draw on larger scale to create different effects and be more loose and expressive.

The birds- Hitchcock

After a tutorial I was advised to watch ' The Birds ' one of Hitchcok's films. I researched into it and watched a clip from the film. The portryal of the birds in this film linked into the way I want to portray birds in my own practice. Dark and edgy and dangerous. Almost being scary.

Wildlife in Fashion/costume

Portrayal of wildlife in fashion and costume. Looking at shape, colour and texture.
Black Swan-

Milo Liren- Giant bird skull-

I feel these designs have an edgy, dark feel to them which I find interesting as the photographs I have taken are full of natural colour and textures. There is a huge constrats between these images and my own. I have explored two different portrayal of birds in these designs, black swan being more about feathers and protection and comfort, the other being about a part of the body, the birds head.

Competitions

As this is the locating unit, entering competitions to get work "out there” is important. There are several I like the idea of:
- Bradford textile society as it involves a specialist in knit.

http://www.bradfordtextilesociety.org.uk/design_competition.html

- Urban Outiftters
- Bench

http://www.benchselfmade.com/bench-self-made-competition

For each of these competitions I plan on exploring a similar idea in all 3 of them, the theme of
"life".

Initial Photographs...

I started taking inital photographs looking at wildlife and natural environments.

From the photographs I started to develop drawing, sketches and colour charts exploring texture and shape within the photos.

Snippets of sketchbook....