Sketchbook, worksheets and non clay work

This blog post is photos of the work I've done in my sketchbooks on research, designs, drawings, paintings, tests, artists, worksheets, 3D paper tests.

Jellyfish Sketchbook

My jellyfish sketchbook begins with some quick sketches I made while at the sea zoo. Then I began making small watercolour paintings of the moon jellyfish based on the photos/videos I took.

Then I started making watercolour paintings of true jellyfish, which are the species I was going to concentrate on for my project. My friend Jess McGee directed me to the fact that there a live cams of these jellyfish on youtube, so I watched a few and painted along side them so it was like getting a first hand view on how they move.

My watercolours

Design Sketchbook

This sketchbook has the developments sketches on the technical parts of creating these jellyfish.

Then I have glaze designs (I'm sorry they're sideways, it won't let me change it and every time I redownload they turn sideways too). Flick through the image carousel.

Final designs - Flick through the image carousel.

Worksheets

I was playing with iridescent nail polishes that come out a different colour on black paper. The green was originally red, blue was originally pink and purple was originally blue (sorry if that was confusing). After making all these different lines I started to see them as jellyfish tentacles so I cut out a few jellyfish heads/bells and added them on places I thought they'd work well.

This was my favourite worksheets to make- it was really messy. I played around with string and paint to create these lovely tentacle like shapes. Layering them up really created the depth and illusion of movement.

Main Sketchbook

This sketchbook is where I started so it has a bit of everything in it - some parts are in other blog posts- but it has sketches, research, library artist research & paintings.

Artists Research