Today has mostly been spent working on developing my Coast project for tomorrow.  I mentioned last night that I have to take four images I’d created and develop them further.  Well I worked on three images.  I’ve saved the fourth image until tomorrow, as I want to make a print from it, and unfortunately I don’t have all the materials and tools required.

I have to admit, what I’ve done today is rather strange.  First of all, I took the image I’d painted of The Vital Spark, then I took a quarter of this image and painted it in a limited palette.  Here is a piece of the original I painted:

and here is the rendering I did today, painted with gouache:

So the next thing I did was to take a quarter from 2 separate images then merged them in different media.  I took the 2 images and put them together in Photoshop so that I could have some idea of how they would merge.  You will recognise them from the originals:

This is what I did with them today:

First of all I coloured the background with pink drawing ink, then drew out the lines with Indian ink.  I then applied glue in various places and while it was wet I painted over it with various coloured drawing inks.  The next stage was to colour in various parts with oil pastels.  I then applied Parker ink all over it, and then used some good old trusty bleach.  I know I use this a lot but it really brings out the colour underneath.  You really can’t see all the colour detail in this image.  It’s much more vibrant and less dark than in this photograph. 

Then I finished off today with a really strange one.  I took the submarine I’d painted earlier, and sectioned it into quarters.  I then used different media in each new section. 

Here is the original as a reminder:

I was scratching my head as to what media techniques to use, so I drew one part in oil pastels, another in soft pastels, which I’m really not used to but it turned out ok.  Another part was painted in acrylic, and the final piece I used…pipe cleaners and feathers! Strange, yeah?   I had no idea what to do, so I thought of a collage type thing.  The overall piece looks very strange but I’m getting used to looking at it.  I’m not really sure what the point of doing this is, but make up your own mind.