The students have been working on individual collages using real materials in the classroom. They have printed off photos from iPads – the now historic – visit to Mount Stewart. Combining avatars and other drawn images and building up layers using transparent and semi transparent materials.

I have asked the class to join their collages together by identifying shapes and patterns that run across their individual collages…it struck me there was a recurring leaf form in the students iPad pictures … I did quick experiment with this in my studio, using some scrap paper and choosing November’s colours of yellow and white, keeping layers floating, not stuck down. I would like students to work with rhythms overlapping from one page to the next to complete the whole, recognising similarities, repeated froms and dissolving boundaries between each individual’s ‘field’ to the next working collaboratively and seeing what combinations throw up interesting results.

I also layered up some of the cyanotype experiements I have been doing

and still playing with real and digital layering combining photographic and drawn elements almost like camouflage….

research continues …