Project 7 - Theme Book

I have been thinking about my Theme Book on and off for quite a long time.  I have found it quite difficult to decide on the subject.  I wanted it to be personal to me; something that inspires me often. 

I started with a mind map - based on ME!  I wrote down anything that I could think of that was part of my life.

After looking at all the ideas I decided that my garden features quite heavily in my work and photographs already and as I am outside everyday that this would be the best choice.  I made some notes about ways to develop this theme and a few sketches for ideas for a final piece.

I then looked back through some of the photographs I had taken of my garden.

I had also already used my garden as inspiration in my sketchbooks.

I find all the images inspirational and I could use any of them I think as a starting point, so I had to decide which were my favourites, this was very difficult but in the end I decided on the funghi and blue & white fragments.

I then started to collect fabrics ...

... and resources; threads, yarns, pens, pencils, beads, buttons, inks, crayons and anything else I could find that fitted these images.

I also started a collection of images from magazines, my scrapbooks and the internet that I felt suited the themes I had chosen.

I am happy with the choices I have made for my theme book - FUNGHI & FRAGMENTS.

Project 7

THEME BOOK

This has been going around in my head for a long time now.  I have had lots of ideas - but didn't seem to be able to decide what to choose.  I had a look back through some old exam papers at night-school and noted down any starting point ideas that appealed to me.

I sat down and wrote down everything in my life and did a brain-storm with ideas - but I just kept coming back to the idea of my garden.  I live in a beautiful rural part of mid-Wales and my garden is not necessarily full of flowers but it is full of inspiration, so I have chosen that as subject for my theme book.

I have recently purchased two book by Frances Pickering and found her work very inspirational.  I am going to experiment with some of her techniques and see where it leads.

http://www.frannyp.co.uk

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Under-Cover-Paper-Fabric-Books/dp/0957351100/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368083100&sr=8-1&keywords=frances+pickering

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Page-After-Making-Individual-Journals/dp/0955404843/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1368083100&sr=8-2&keywords=frances+pickering

Lots and lots of inspiration - through the seasons - shapes - seed heads - textures - forms - colours - line - endless ideas - can't wait to get started.

I also created a Pinterest Board to collect ideas for Assignment 5.