Mood Boards

This week, we created mood boards based on what we could see/ find around the various workshops of the art department, taking photographs of certain objects that we found interesting and compiling a few that we had selected to draw. 

We then stretched a piece of A4 paper onto a board and proceeded to begin our first sketches of whatever various items that we had chosen to include on our mood board before adding colour. (Although we had the option to either begin with a coloured background or to add that in later.)

Once we felt our boards were filled to an appropriate extent and accurately recreated, we were given a variety of different choices in which to begin to add colour to our work, giving each board a unique look of their own.

One method was to use powdered ink paints, either mixed with water in a cup and manually painted on, creating thick brush strokes along the paper, or more interesting techniques such as spreading water over a certain area, then to lightly sprinkle the powdered ink on top of it, giving the ink space to spread itself out into interesting patterns on its own, or to sprinkle the ink on first, then dripping water carefully on top of it.

We then finished by writing annotations on the back of our pieces, consisting of what we could do to improve next time, techniques that we had used, equipment we had used, a step by step of how we had created our boards and what we liked about our pieces.