Week 1 – SLEEP/WAKE

1 March 2019

The sleep/wake condition means that I experienced the underlying ‘ordered reality’ (of my bedroom) at the same time as a blurred veiled vision of rain, as I emerge from my sleep. I have experienced this vision since childhood. The drawing tries to bring the two conditions together with the underlying order being distorted/disturbed by the watercolour overlay.

8 March 2019

Method for my Concept Drawing

1. Pencil Drawing – ‘logic’ ie. real perspective / real world.
2. Shadow Smudge – real perspective / real world, starting to soften / blur.
3. Water Colour – veil of transparent colour (2x strengths).
4. Pencil Patterns – tried to disturb / distort underlying pencil ‘reality’ with patterns generated by the water colour curvy lines. Blurred pencil ‘reality’.
5. Eraser – More blurring of pencil ‘reality’, creating more flow (like water / rain).
6. Piercing – Patterns allowing light through page.

Precedent

Jean Nouvel
I was inspired by the Nouvel’s amazing work ‘Louvre Abou Dhabi, Abou Dhabi, Émirats arabes unis’ and how the patterned roof relates to my own concept drawing. His work shows the overlapping layers allowing effects from light, depth and shadow. I hope to use light and projection in an interesting way for my own concept model.

http://www.jeannouvel.com/en/ (retrieved 12/03/19)