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Deeper into autumn now and transitioning into winter. most of the leafs have fallen from the trees but there are some that remain.

I really liked the warm reds and brown colour of the leaves as I do not normally associate nature with having these colour combinations. It really made me appreciate what taking closer more focused looks into nature could achieve and I understood why people would want to just sit on a bench in the park and just observe. It is very peaceful.

Some more attempts at trees. By this time, I have been able to use some techniques in order to make the leafs look better. On the right page there is a idea for a final piece inspired by all the trees i’ve been drawing.

It involves a canvas with leaves painted onto it which will be mounted on a tree branch growing out of a plant pot. There are strings which will hang down from the top of the canvas which will have leafs to reflect the different seasons.

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I think this is where my placebook really starts to get a little more colourful as I further add some colours to the autumn trees I sketch and add in some plant life.

At this point, I am very bad at drawing the leafs of the trees as I did not know any techniques in order to improve them so I just scribbled them in.

I took some small plants to see how they would look being stuck into the book and although at the time I thought it worked pretty well, I considered the ethical repercussions of doing this.

There is a popular notion that if you like a plant you pick it but if you love it you let it grow and that really resonated with me when I stuck them into this book. I really like how deep that concept was and so I decided not to continue with that kind of content for the placebook.

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This is a photo of a small garden in the park which is decorated with very colourful flowers. In the centre of it was a man made sundial which has been destroyed. I really like the contrast but appropriate aesthetic of the sundial and the natural surroundings. Though they are different they seem to belong together.

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This time I decided to try my hand at describing my feelings and the phenomenology I experienced. I am quite new to this and it felt exposing because it was like audiences would be able to peer into my mind which to me was a very invasive sensation so I was a little hesitant to write down my inner thoughts.

I also tried to design a geometric autumn leaf so that the pages were not completely devoid of colour and this was my first time experimenting with colour before fully committing to it which I knew I would eventually have to do.

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A photo I took of a sunset in autumn along with my sister. I like the way the warm colours wash the background and trees with browns and oranges. These along with the clear sky juxtaposed with the coat my sister is wearing contrast nicely.

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These are my first drawings and experiences at Calverly Park located in Tunbridge Wells.

I came unprepared and thus was only able to draw with the limited supplies I had which were my pen and my Placebook. It was very cold this day so I thought the black scratchy style which was the result of my limited supplies were quite fortunate.

I think the lack of colour and sketchyness reflects the detachment I had with the place since I wasnot intimately familiar with it yet and did not make any connections with it so the black and white point of view seemed appropriate.

Place Book and Summer Project

During my first year in Graphic Design HND 1 at West Kent College, on of the projects I was tasked to undertake was a year long project called “Placebook”.

I picked a place and over the course of the year go to that place regularly in order to ‘experience’ it and document my experience visually by drawing what I saw/felt and also writing down poems or paragraphs.