maps

this is a scan in of my sketchbook, with a scan in of my personal maps and journeys book. I use my little notebook as a way to map all of the journeys I take, through my basic maps that actually have no relation to time, distance or actually where I go, it's made purely by closing my eyes and remembering the journey.

all of the little journeys I make and map out are then put into a large study of my journeys, I never do more than a week in a go, and they're not always beautiful looking, but it is indeed my life and all the journeys within it; as well as just looking at the journeys, i collect bus tickets, but tend to keep alot of them as a personal collection, but i do always intend to incorporate some into bits of art work.

Though this particular one is very plain, I really do love the way it looks, it's a true representation of myself, my journeys, my life and my mind, it incorporates my collections, my personal points of interest, and my idea of my life being too plain.

This is a scan in of a tea covered map with a photograph from my 35mm film on top, I think I'll make a few of them, and have a proper post about them

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sketchbooks

As I take an art course, I obviously have a sketchbook, it's an interesting collaboration of drawings, artists and things I enjoy, and occasionally made to do.

this is a small collection of observational studies, complete with colour swatches to the true colours of what I am attempting to portray in a maybe more artistical sense, and the actual sizes of those things I am drawing.

I am not so much a fan of intricate little studies, although they're beautiful, and very much aesthetically pleasing, they are not a study of emotion or thought, which is always my main plan for artworks.

These are my maps studies, taking maps and creating art on top of it, the highest picture has the outline of my regular bus journeys, to show my own personal kinds of maps, and a rough sketch of my doc martins, something I'd probably doodle on a journey somewhere, the lowest (the one directly above) is my Tibetan prayer flags, which I have hanging around my room.
I adore map studies, I find them incredibly interesting to look at, and incredibly interesting to create.

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