Keeping with the theme of nature I started looking into the structure of flowers. I started by collecting different types and using my flower press to preserve them. I like pressing flowers as they become paper thin and you can look at their inner structure.
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| watercolour painting. |
As I liked the inside of flowers I decided to buy some and start opening them up using a scalpel to cut them and then pin them open. This reminded me of being in the science labs as I was also doing my biology AS level course. I loved biology all the beautiful intricate drawings and labelling of parts of plants and microscopic samples. This gave me an idea to take the project in a different direction.
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| I started responding to my photographs by drawing them to capture the tones. |
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| I started to research botanical and nature inspired artists. |
Taking inspiration from the practical lab sessions I was doing in my biology lessons I decided to start researching botanical and microscopic art. This really interested me with the patterns and structures we wouldn't see unless we used a microscope.
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| my own drawings from artists work. |
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| watercolour painting. |
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| black biro pen drawing. |
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| (on the left) wax crayon, water colour wash. (on the right) black fine liner with water wash. |
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| ink painting from artists images of transverse section of stem. |
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| ink study. |
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| microscopic artist research. |
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| acrylic paint, ink.(left) Watercolour painting.(right) |
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| ink over paper doyleys. |
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| watercolour studies. |
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| ink studies. |
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watercolour and ink study.
I decided to speak to my biology teacher about my project and he really helped giving me some microscopic slides to photograph. To do this I put the slide on a light box and zoomed with the camera to see the detail in each slide. |
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| section of a plant root. |
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| bone marrow section. |
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| stomach lining tissue |
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| top section of root. |
I really liked this structure with the repeated pattern of the circular shapes. So I started to work from my microscopic images.
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| black biro pen study. |
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| acrylic paint, black fine liner, water wash. |
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| watercolour, and fine liner with water wash. |
These are my final pieces I was happy with them although I would have liked to have finished the painting to the left.
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