Drawing into Abstraction.

I went to the Anglican Cathedral to do a series of drawings and 5 were to be contrasting drawings that show shadows and stong contrasts between light and dark so i drawed particulaly shadowed corridors within the Cathedral. I also did 5 left handed drawings, 5 continuous line drawings and 5 blind conteour drawings. Using these I used a viewfinder to outline small sections of our drawing to then create 4 A5 size abstractions.

I was able to use any colours/materials I wanted for these abstractions. I chose blues and greens because they are so different from the usual colours you would see in a cathedral like browns and wood/stone colours. I used watercolours as they wouldnt give my drawings the usual cathedral textures like wood and stone and i wanted my drawing to have an opposite effect with them being abstractions and hardly noticeable parts of a cathedral. I wanted to make some of my lines bolder than others so i went over them in black charcoal co i could smudge them so they weren't too bold against the watercolours. I found my small scale abstractions to be more successful than my A1 version.

This is my A1 version of one of my abstractions with another abstraction over it. I used charcoal more in this version with watercolour over it to create a layered effect.