As well as visiting the gardens, I spent a lot of time this week working out the details of the project and ideas for the presentation of the art book. In order to make the art book visually cohesive, I’ve settled upon using only 3 mediums. These are marker pens, biros and watercolours. These mediums allow me enough versatility because they can be combined as well as used on their own, while still maintaining a visual flow.
One of the biggest challenges for me has been titling my project to help consolidate my ideas. The title I’ve decided on for my art book is ‘Natures Beautiful Freedom’, with the subheading ‘to document and preserve a collection of little moments’. I feel that this sums up my intentions for this project as I want it to be a set of delicate and sweet illustrations to capture the beauty of 2 locations in London.
I plan to scan all my illustrations and assemble the art book digitally using Adobe InDesign. The number of pages remains flexible but I would like it to be 10 pages long. With a front and back cover, 4 pages of illustrations for Hyde Park and 4 pages for the Bonnington Gardens. I will make a watercolour wash background which will be used for the background of each pages. The illustrations will be grouped by location and sub grouped thematically, with all the animals together, all the botanics together and all the secretary ones together. This should make it engaging for the viewer.
These are the water colour background:
Next week I will test page layouts and refine the details of the art book such as introductions to the locations and summary for the back cover.
Samuel Green Illustration 