Friday 19 December 2014

Abstracting Drawings

After my tutorial, I have decided the Manchester Cathedral stained glass is the most inspiring and to do some more drawings that are less literal and are abstracting the bits I enjoy from the stained glass windows.

These are some of my more developed drawings, focusing mainly on colour combinations:



I quite like the way these line drawings capture the colours and the way they blend. I enjoyed using ink to create these vibrant colours.

To develope this further I used similar colour schemes to produce more relevant and refined drawings that reflect both the shapes and use of colour in the stained glass:



Friday 12 December 2014

Locating: Visual Reasearch

Following feedback week, we were told to produce a body of visual research on a theme of our choosing. With Christmas decorations lighting up windows and buildings, I found myself looking more and more at the colour and patterns used in architechture. I decided to look deeper into stained glass windows and and the patterns used in stonework and railings.

My home town York has lots of old buildings that have stained glass tucked away in little alcoves, this was a piece I found in a local pub that displays York Minster:


Once back in Manchester, I went to the cathedral to take pictures of the stained glass there, I found it quite interesting as it was more modern stained glass, having been rebuilt after the bombings in the early 90s.

 
 
I also noticed quite a lot of traditional stained glass windows in window paines of doors on people's houses:

 
This week I plan to do some drawings based on the images I have collected, experimenting with mark making and colour work.