Drawing Building a Texture ..5th January

Building a Texture ..5th January

With this being the first day back from the Christmas holidays, I was ready to get back into my work again. With Mondays still being dedicated to drawing, I was interested to see what we'd be doing. First we had an introduction on what we'd be doing for the rest of the day, which was the same as the last couple of months. We were ready to create some art.

We were given an A1 piece of paper and had to build a surface on the paper using the materials given to us; such as different papers, cardboard, string and sand. With a range of medium, and a variety of ways to use them, it was an interesting and creative exercise. This was not only because of the different outcomes that we were all going to have, but also because we were making the background textures without knowing what we will be painting or drawing on top of it next week.

I started by searching through the collection of materials. As I was looking through I had to think carefully about what I wanted my background texture to look like. With no idea of what I will be painting onto the A1 page, I could only work on the composition and layout of the contrasting textures I'd be applying on the page. Having taken some of the brown paper and scrunching it up, I started ripping and gluing the pieces on top of the A1 sheet, layering sections on top of one another. Once I'd covered most of the page with the paper, I started cutting different sized rectangles out of cardboard and gluing them to the top right corner, slowing getting smaller as they got closer to the centre of the page.

With more brown paper, I started to cover some of the cardboard to build the surface even more. I slowly added extra texture. Finally I cut, ripped and separated the corrugated cardboard and placed that on top of the other layers, taking different aspects of the corrugated cardboard and gluing them to the A1 sheet.

Once I was happy with the layers I had made, it was then time to cover the lot with a mix of glue and white paint, in order to have a clear page to work on top of next week.