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

So why make a blog?

So I've made and re-made countless blogs over the past few years, some of which I've kept to myself and some of which I've shared around. I plan to use this one to document my progress through my final stage of my art and design foundation diploma; I'll be including images of my work and of my inspiration and writing about my thoughts and processes along the way.

I've written my own brief for this project, which is:

"I plan to explore the contrast and mythical meanings between the elements of Air, Fire, Water and Earth, using a variety of media and find ways in which they can be incorporated into other situations, such as portraiture, figure, etc, in order to create a mural based on these discoveries. I will also explore the connections between them and ways in which they can be linked and combined."

I'll hopefully be posting fairly frequently as I want to use this blog as part of my project, so stop by and browse a while....