A way to plan out a journey is to put sections of a map on the wall and plan a route out using string. Adding in images of the places, names, roads and landmarks.
To get an idea of how my exibition wall will look like, Im have looked at the ways galleries would set out the paintings and the sculptures. They put sculptures on white blocks either in the middle of the room or next to the artists work.
My first idea for using lights is to paint the lamp base black or white, then add some drawings to the base of the lamp. The 3 colours of lights I might choose to circle around the base might be Blue, Green and Yellow.
For the lamps plug I am going to include it as part of the art work, this image inspired me to make use of the plug instead of only the lamp.
Shadow art is another thing I am going to look at which I will use on the lamp. To get this shadow effect I am going to remove the lamp shade material and replace it with plastic, then I am going to draw outlines of places I visit during my journey. Around the lamp will be white paper to show the shadows.
Above the lamp I am going to put black paper domed around the top and stab holes into it, this will make it look like the night sky.
Joan Miro was a Spanish painter and sculptor. I have found some pictures of the mobile sculptors he has designed. These mobiles have inspired me to create my own mobile for my alternative sketchbook.
Lizzie Mary Cullen's work is based in psychogeography and mapping urban landscapes. Her work inspires me because of the creative ways to redesign the way places look like. She uses Rapidograph pens all of her work, which means all of her art work is in Black and White.
Roa is a Blegian street artist from Ghent. He inspires me because of his imaginative ways to create amazing art. I am doing a lot of my art in black and white so I found his art great for idea's for my topic of travelling, so I am thinking of drawing Scottish animals such as a stag in good detail.
This is Ullapool, I arrive here on the Cal Mac ferry. Ullapool is a small town in the north-west of Scotland, but for me it's the start of a long journey to Inverness, Perth, Glasgow and finally Appleby. The landscape is very mountainous all around the town which has inspired me to draw Ullapool as it is quite a remote place.
