The next task was to take our loose sketchbook, choose a text and create images that relate.
I chose the ‘Natural Disaster’ text because it stood out to be as extremely descriptive.
We were told it was best not to look at any inspiration from Pinterest or Instagram so it was only what our own minds created.
The text narratives a house that is being swept in slowly and surely by the relentless ocean. The people who live in the house are getting sore and bleeding skin from the salt and some of them have died from pneumonia. They cannot go into the bottom floor of the house because of the damage, the clothes they dry on the line inside are always wet and rub their skin.
Oil pastel
Graves from the people who have passed.
1 min
Oil pastel
Water Damage in the walls
30 seconds
Oil Pastels
Raw and red skin
2 mins
Oil pastels and biro
Of the dark water in the tub
2 mins
Oil pastel rub over texture and red felt tip pen of a skinny, pale human with red raw skin.
2 mins
Collage of sea from magazine with oil pastel house.
5mins
Oil pastel hands and face figure.
5 mins.
Person laying in bed, oil pastels with rubbing technique on cardboard texture.
2 mins.
Waves from black oil pastels.
2 mins
Skeleton in the kitchen with graves – biro and oil pastels.
3 mins
kitchen with sea in window – black oil pastels
1 min
Oil pastel people in bed on water
3 mins
Oil pastel house with waves
5 mins
tree with fish on it, oil pastel and felt tip pen.
3 mins.
red human figure, black biro and red felt tip
2 mins
Black and blue felt tip, house with shells and sea coming in.
2 mins.
Birds eye view of mouldy bathroom, biro pen.
5 mins.
For these sketches, I took my inital designs and altered them with new designs which were more precise and took longer to create.
black oil pastels and a black ink wash. Woman in the ocean crying.
15mins
Black ink wash of woman in the ocean with the house on her head.
20 mins
Black Ink wash and oil pastels of bed floating in the water.
20 mins,
Oil pastels clothes hanging.
5 mins
Black ink wash scenes of the mouldy water ridden house with an ocean background. Comic book style
30mins.
collage of words from the text with a hand coming from the water.
20 mins
Black ink wash, black paint and oil pastels of very large woman on the water with tiny house and rain.
15 mins.
Ink wash, waisting away house in water.
30 mins.
Bubble wrap with cut out of house created with oil pastel, scanned and colours inverted.
Scanned image of waves made from oil pastels, then digitally collaged and colours inverted.