Totem/memory stick

IMAGE 1 SIZE A4

A photograph taken on a recent cruise to the Norway and the fijords. I thought this would provide good source material for my totem/ memory stick on my theme-- Life at the Margins; where land and water meet.

IMAGES 2- 12 EACH A5 IN SIZE.

I first made a series of sketches of various different sections of the photograph, some were across the whole piece while others were working on very small sections of the original .I used a variety of different mediums to translate the designs into A5 size images. Here I used painted tissue on muslin and worked on the bands of colour which run along the base of the interior surface of the 'cave' in the photo.

This was an intrepretation of the same band of colour made in coloured acrylic gel

A charcoal sketch on cotton rag paperAn acrylic paint view

Acrylic paint scraped back to the paper in sections

A soluble pencil sketch

Concentrating on one line of fissures I made a cross section in stencil film and used Markal paint sticks on the edge of the stencil , sponged on to black paper The same origins as the one above but Markal paint sticks on white paper

Oil pastels on cotton rag paper

Paint on very wet paper.

IMAGE 13 SIZE A4

I scanned in all the above images and then used them to make a collage.

IMAGE 14 SIZE A4

Another collage arrangement

IMAGE 15 SIZE 40 INCHES X 20 INCHES

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE.

I then used thin coloured card to frame each sketch. I then made three laminated images from the original photograph and cut them up to form joining strips across the frames. Each strip of photograph has within it an element of the original which is represented in the sketch .The laminated strips wer then taped at the back to form joining strips for the collection . The piece was photographed flat on the floor.

IMAGE 16 SIZE 40 INCHES X 20 INCHES

In lifting up the previous image from the floor it became apparent that a slide/ transparency effect could be achieved by holding the image up to the light. It is particularly effective in the muslin tissue samples and those sketches done on lightweight paper.

tTime taken 25 hours