Initial Ideas and Sampling

So in the words of Chuck Close

Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case.” 

So that's what I've done.   Just got on with it and created the following pieces of work using watercolour, pen and ink, pastels.....

Rocks.... in order to get to the beach you had to walk along rocks .... large solid rocks, gently sloping onto the sand

Using my scanner and then editing in Photoshop using filters I have created these two different patterns - the one above being representative of the verticals that I photographed in Both and the one below, the smoothness of the rocks.    the pink colour???   I was feeling that the rock smoothness should be represented by pink 

I visited the Derby Play and Recycling Centre and just loaded up with fabric oddments and this is a selection of them  - the background a large narrow piece of mustard fabric representing the sunset, the blue satin the sky the orange sunset and the caramel colours representing the sand.  I laid them down to photograph to see how they looked and the colours work together 

Inspired by Bridget Riley