Wave collage

I went back to do more research work on the element of water and wanted to continue using the materials of ink and bleach on a variety of papers to create a wave inspired collage. I covered textured wallpaper with ink and planned to bleach it too but liked the effect without ink so left it as it was. I experimented using different dilutions of ink in order to achieve different tones of blue.

Wallpaper effect

Wallpaper effect using diluted ink

I covered a page half in concentrated ink and half in diluted ink and then experimented with different dilutions of bleach to see what patterns I could achieve. 

Diluted ink and bleach

Concentrated ink and bleach

Using all these papers cut to different sizes and shapes, I then created a collage of a wave inspired by a research image from my original visual research.

Wave collage - final result

Recycling a failed collage

My surface texture collage was quite unsuccessful due to my choice of materials and the fact that making collages isn't really my strong point in art, but instead of letting it go to waste I used it to do some printing with.

Failed collage

One aspect I did like of it though is the fact that I used mud to paint the leaves at the bottom.

Mud painted leaves

Printing with the whole of the collage wasn't very successful as the background area and the actual leaves didn't really have enough texture to give a good effect when being used for printing, so in the end I just printed with the leaves I'd cut out myself from textured wallpaper and I was happier with the effect these achieved. 

Print 1

Print 2

First Research work and ideas

I have a slight back log of work to post about as I've been doing this course for a couple of weeks and haven't posted any work yet, so will be posting about a few things retrospectively.

For my first section I did general research work of all 4 elements, which consisted of brainstorms on paper painted in colours that I thought represented the elements; so browns and greens for earth, blues and greys for air, reds and oranges for fire and blues and greens for water. I also researched images that I thought represented each element and printed them off to make a collage and included a couple my own sketches too, amongst the printed off images. Below are images of these pieces of work.

AIR brainstorm

AIR collage

EARTH brainstorm

WATER brainstorm

WATER collage

EARTH collage

FIRE brainstorm

FIRE collage