Land and Water - Week One

This week we were given our first project; Land and Water. Our brief for this project was to explore the environments around us, marking down anything that inspires us or any emotions that these environments inflict upon us.
Our class headed down to Uphill for the afternoon to do some sketches and to get a feel of what our project was going to be like, however, as I am basing my project around photo media, I also used a Pentax K1000 film camera to capture to beauty of the atmosphere.

My main aim was to combine Land and Water together using both sketches and photography, to do this, I sketched a tree and cut out the leaves which left holes in the paper. When I had finished I held the paper up to the background of the place I had been studying and took a photograph. The result of this was the leaves having the same pattern and picture as the background behind it. This way, I had combined land and water together into one collective piece of work. I felt as if this was the most inspiring and accurate way to represent the scenery around me, it not only illustrated the visual scenery, but the emotional, peaceful atmosphere as well. I then went on to use this same technique in other locations with different patterns and shapes to be made.