Sketchbook and Photoshop

I have been working with photographs that I took at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and using drawing, collaging and overlapping with my handstitch work to create new inspiration for myself. See figure 1.

 

Figure 1: personal image, sketchbook collage.

I then started to take away part of the drawing and combine it with dance movements. See figure 2.

I wanted to include animals within my work, because with the idea of fairground being tangled with circus, I adopted the idea of animal circus, even though Blackpool Pleasure Beach stopped using animals.




Figure 2: Personal image, sketchbook drawing.

I then used Photoshop to help me create new compositions and colour combinations from my sketchbook drawings. I ended up with an accidental piece from Photoshop, for some unknown reason the colours went to extreme. See figure 3.

But I am still happy with the result, because I think it would be interesting to use digital print to print it on top of a piece of fabric, the colours have made my layers more obvious to the eye, as it has taken away the details of the drawing and left just the shapes.

I am actually more happy with the accidental piece than the original design.

 



Figure 3: personal image, Photoshop accident.

The original design, see figure 4.

 

 

The original design, see figure 4.