Angelica Bradley

[Group collaborative mixed media drawing inspired by Emily Kam Kngwarray exhibition at Tate Modern. Watercolours, marker pen, oil pastel, pencil.]

[The Australian outback. Inspired by a projection of images of Australian landscapes at The Emily Kan kngwarray exhibition. Oil pastel and marker pen.]

[The Australian outback. Inspired by a projection of images of Australian landscapes at The Emily Kan kngwarray exhibition. Oil pastel and marker pen.]

[‘Passing through’ Capturing a visiter at the Emiliy kam Kngwarray exhibition. Oil pastel, marker pen, fineliner pen.]

[‘Sat at the canal’ Watercolour and ink.]

[Restaurant window on the way to Tate modern. Watercolour and ink.]

[Inspired by fallen autumnal leaves. Watercolour and collaged magazine pages.]

[A trip on the tube. Watercolour and fineliner pen.]

[Dinner at my desk. Watercolour, pencil and ink.]

[My flatmate’s fridge. Marker pen and pencil.]

[An autumnal walk. Collage and fineliner pen.]

[Suit and tie on show at the Blitz exhibition at The Design museum. Pencil and marker pen.]

In this first task of focusing on colour I chose to just draw anything I came across in my daily life that interested me. This gave me a wide range of references to draw from and always kept me on the lookout for colours I liked. Exploring items in my day to day life for colour shape and pattern has inspired me to appreciate these details in my everyday life more.

Typically I like working with a mix of media in my work usually to create a contrast so I enjoyed that aspect of this task. I think the mix of materials that worked best that I haven’t tried much before was a combination of watercolour paints, pencil and marker pen. This is because I could lay the initial placements of colour and shapes with the watercolour paints first, add the lines with pencil and then the more noticeable details with the markers pen. You can see this in my drawings of my fridge and desk.

Another area I feel was successful are my drawings from the Emily Kam Kngwarray exhibition. For these I tried to emulate her layered style of mark making, although I didn’t have the same materials she typically uses in her work, so I focused on areas of colour to create an abstract representation of the reference images. I think that from drawing from the same place of reference as Kngwarray I could better understand the correlation between her work and the Australian landscape that she draws inspiration from.
I think the most challenging part of this talking colour task was accurately translating the colours as I found at most times I seemed to develop a new colour palette for the drawing compared to my reference.

[Pattern development from fridge drawing. Image 1, Watercolour paint and oilpastel on ink background. Image 2, Watercolour paint. Image 3, Collaged copy of image 2 and then repeated in photoshop. Image 4, oil pastel, monoprinting.]

[Pattern development from restaurant window drawing. Image 1, Ink drawing, collaged, then repeated in photoshop. Image 2, Ink and watercolour paint.]

[Close up of Art nouveau style lamp, watercolour and marker pen, image 2 watercolour and marker pen.]

[Close up of shirt and tie, watercolour and marker pen.]

[Pattern developemnt from ‘sat at the canal drawing’, Inks and watercolours.]

For the second task of pattern I chose to explore some new items in my day to day life but also to develop some of my drawings from the first task. I explored some new techniques in this half of the task for example, transferring watercolours paint designs from acetate onto a ink background and combining college with oil pastels. I also explored scanning, repeating and enlarging small parts of my drawings to inspire areas for pattern development. I really enjoyed these new techniques and the layered effect they created.
The drawings from this task I think were most successful and could be developed into knit in the future are my ‘sat by the canal’ pattern painting, for its loose brushstrokes of colour that could be interpreted into knit stitches such as laddering or stripes with e-wrap vertical stripes. The other drawing I think was most successful was my pattern development from my fridge drawing. This is because I was able to interpret this is in many processes giving such different outcomes.
This task has definitely encouraged me to try many new materials and techniques which I would love to carry into my work in the future to expand my range skills and quality of outcomes.