PREP WORK BEFORE HALF TERM

Before half term, I managed to produce a few drawings mainly inspired by the idea of the School environment being a 'living organism' or more specifically now, a multiplicity of lots of organisms making a 'whole interlinked community'. I have also armed myself with even more biology books, natural history books and photos of the buildings around and my favorite is by far the fabulous illustrated paperback version of Ernst Haeckel 'Art Forms in Nature'.







The drawings were first drawn in pencil, then ink and then water coloured. However, having read a little more about Ernst Haeckle and a research by Luke Jerram, it seems that illustrations of biologic organisms are often coloured to make them more attractive, rather than depict their real colour (if colour they have, as some are so transparent, they hold very little pigmentation in the first place). So for now on, I will leave the drawings uncoloured.

I have also done a few ceramic experimentations using paper clay porcelain, as well as photographic experiments - just trying to see what engages me visually. Before the porcelain is fired, it is hard to tell if the experiments are working, and the idea of a multiplicity of little 'beings' is really exciting. I am quite pleased with the rayograms.













I seem to be making some headway, so onwards and upwards. Half term should give me time to do some more drawings and with luck, some more ceramic studies too.