Developing Ideas

To get a bit further away from my initial images, ideas and drawings and to venture out further into the unknown is kinda scary.. but I just have to stop being scare of messing up and just go for it! I was given an idea that I should try working with paper and paper folding and so I started wondering how I could relate this to my work and looking at my photos I thought well.. you cant really fold anything that could relate to nature because a straight fold is like a line and nothing in nature is perfectly straight, thats the beauty of it right? so.. I got my page and screwed it up in a ball and got this lovely assortment of random folds and lines and I decided to go over it lightly with compressed charcoal and got something like this:

 

Then I decided to try it bigger out of my sketchpad and got this:

 

Which I really like as the black is so strong against the white and its like a play on positive and negative spaces. I love how the crumpeling of the paper has suddenly brought a 3D aspect to my sketchpad idea!

 

 

Then I tried it on black sugarpaper:

 

 
 It looks really interesting to see in person! It almost looks like a sheet of metal that has been crumpled and dinted (I am hoping to photograph sheets of crumpled metal this weekend).

 

Doing this has given me a whole new range of ideas! In this shot up a bit closer it appears almost like the texture of a rock.

 

And up even closer again it still holds interest in the colour and texture of the piece. Im very excited to advance a little more on this idea.