Project 1: Developing Visual Research

The first part of this section is to create 8-10 drawings based on our chosen still-life. The still-life I created was based on the theme of medicinal plants as outlined in this post. A photograph of the included plants and materials can be seen below Inspired by early taxonomy sketches I used pen and ink …

Part Five: Building a Collection – Research

I was inspired to build a collection based on plants that had medicinal properties similar to the medications that I have been prescribed as this would link in with the stitch and yarn explorations I have done in the previous sections. I used two books as sources of possible plants to create a still life …