MEDICAL MUSEUM: DRAWINGS
T H A C K R A Y M E D I C A L M U S E U M
The visit to Thackray gave me a great deal of primary research and opportunity for observational drawing. On the day the museum itself was quite busy, with two school trips and the various other screaming children it was hard for me to concentrate on drawing and so after a few pages of attempted observational sketches I chose instead to photograph selected exhibitions so that I could later draw them in a more comfortable atmosphere. This worked well for me as I found it easier to concentrate on the research aspect of the trip, I was able to collect more information around the photographs I was taking.
Something I've noticed after blogging in these past months is that it can be hard to show fine pencil lines through scanned images, the details become lost and the lighter lines disappear leaving an inaccurate representation of the drawing. I have since found that fine liners and coloured pens show the best when scanned and so in my initial drawing for this project I chose to only work with those media, I realise this limits myself to experimentation and exploration, however through repetition of one media I have found a consistent style that works for the images I am creating. I have found through overlaying certain images with drawings I can create interesting conversations, the overlapping colours merging to create new colours gives the individual sketches on the page a new meaning. Even with the composition, unknowingly I have created pages that no longer seem like individual observational sketches, but rather, one whole image.
