Point 2: Research Development and Experiments

Experiments:

1. Visit to the Oxford Museum of Natural History

Sketch page example

2. Media Experiment - creating a form using shapes (without using an outer line). Originally done as part of Research Project.

Toucan sketch

Triangle outline (using a pencil, ruler, and light box)

Drawing and colouring of triangles using Photoshop (each triangle re-drawn free-hand) process

Toucan complete with background colour

3. Misc. work created using found images (created before choosing my exact outcome of FMP):

4. More triangle experiments -

 Full body (and less exotic choice) of bird:

Pigeon - bare triangle 'skeleton'

Process of creating the body using digitally drawn and coloured shapes

Finished Pigeon body with coloured background

Non-bird form:

Observational sketch of pinwheel (made by hand)

Finished digital drawing of Pinwheel (triangles drawn freely without any  initial pencil triangle 'skeleton'

5. Two-colour screen printing test:

Bird sketch

Initial 'figuring out' of darker and lighter areas (using different coloured highlighters)

Dark and light colour layers laid on top of each other on lightbox

Colour separations created in black marker for photocopying

Finished screen print

6. Mock-up triangle 'Screen-print':

Quick triangle 'skeleton' created for first chosen bird

Colour separations created as separate Photoshop layers (included a third 'lightest' layer) 

All three colour separations 'laid' on top of each other in Photoshop. The blue layer  has slightly  lower opacity, but it is hard to tell due to the nature of the 'flatness' of the digital image.