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This week was my first tutorial with my specialised area tutor, I feel like I’ve been struggling this past week with how to move my work on. I think it was getting repetitive and not developing. I also felt like everyone’s work was looking the same, drawing buildings which I didn’t like. For the next unit I will definitely choose a brief more challenging and less popular because of this. After seeing Laura I feel so much better, I have been working off different sized loose sheets to decide on what size sketchbook to get. Laura suggested A3 so I can include more than one of my drawings on one page and include yarn wrappings and images next to drawings. I was also asked to create a mind map of what I think or others think from the phrase ‘urban influences’.

Doing this has really moved my work on, I am now going towards the concept of; perspective, people, crowds, movement, life style, composition, abstract, buildings materials and texture.

Still continuing with layering I am working from Margaret Berkes work, from her men in hats photographs taken in New York. I love the composition of the crowds and the angle the image has been taken from. I am layering this on top of block abstract building shapes with neutral colours taken from building materials including the copper building in Salford keys I found during initial research. I feel I am really refining my concept now. 

Margaret Berke