In response to my visit to Duttons for Buttons, my observational drawings and interviews with customers and the shop worker, I made a start on some sketchbook development. I fear I have been getting caught up in the research angle too much and neglecting my own visual responses to what I have been finding out. I find researching a lot of fun though and feel like a detective of sorts! I have found out so many new and interesting things about buttons thanks to my solid foundation of research so far.
I wanted to experiment with different ways of drawing buttons using different materials such as ink, pen, pencil and charcoal to capture the mystery, individuality and wonder of buttons and also depict how they were arranged in the button room. The sensory idea didn't work out too well - I closed by eyes and laid out some buttons on my table and drew loosely while feeling the buttons and thinking about my experience in the button room. When I opened my eyes it just looked like a child's drawing! Using a combination of dry brush and ink and a very watered down ink with a wet brush was much more effective in giving the buttons an almost ethereal and dream-like status.
I also wanted to sketch out some ideas of how I would interpret people's interactions with buttons whether good or bad. I pushed some of the ideas and motifs further, which I learned from the Visual Skills module to be very mindful of, but feel I need to do more work in my sketchbook.
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