The American Landscape

Tying it all together

I am in the final process of bringing my Pre Major project together. But I am struggling to finish the concertina. It needs something else to tie it all together, but what?

After a tutorial with my course tutors, we came to the conclusion that it needed more of a journey to it. Through adding more silhouettes, and extra details like a skeleton in the dragon shaped rock and drawings of plants, it brings the image together as a final piece that is more interactive and highlights my journey.

Digital Collaging

After a mini tutorial with my tutor last week, he helped me to stop over thinking and start having fun with my work. After hand-making some textures, I scanned them in to my computer. My tutor then sat and helped me to play around with cutting, pasting, playing with textures, using geometric shapes and changing the colour and opacity of images to create some digital collages.

These collages explore the landscape and photographs I took whilst on my two week trek over the summer in America. Through using hand-made textures and cutting out geometric shapes, I am adding another element to my photographs, highlighting how I saw the places through my eyes, and exaggerating the colours and shapes that really made these landscapes amazing and so memorable to me.