Surface Decoration. Part 1

After experimenting in my sketch book i started to think about how to combine Alice Potter to the fauvism colours i have been experimenting with.

I decided to keep the more feminine feeling of Alice potters illustration but use fauvism inspired colour schemes....

I started taking some of my paintings and drawings and editing them on photo shop.

I then started taking my collages and editing them. I started thinking about them as surface patterns and how that might work. 

I really likes how these looked and wanted to keep going with the idea of using my digital collages but keeping the original idea of "style" and the fauvism colours. 

I wanted to think about the themes of the unit, urban and rural. So i started thinking about rural animals, nature, botanic's, landscapes ect. I started thinking about urban, cityscapes, textures and i thought about graffiti. I started thinking about banksy, how his work is technically a surface pattern.

I wanted to focus on something that would go across walls and buildings in an urban environment. I thought about how my collages would translate in this way i wanted to make a few to try.

I liked this idea as a surface pattern but i wanted to keep in mind the theme urban and rural so i thought about using elements of rural animals, landscapes and natural forms. I started reserching and came across and artist called Remi Rough.

Remi Rough is an artist from South London. Rough first started as a street artist in the 1980s nd then moved to gallery art. His compositions are abstract with coloured shapes and straight edges.

I wanted to look at how more abstracted collages would do on walls keeping in mind my theme of rural. So i started making collages.

I then decided to see how these translated onto walls / buildings...

 

I do think some of these worked and some did not, it is defiantly something i am taking forward for my final idea and will work on this on another blog.