After a confused Easter holidays, I found our first tutorial back quite inspiring. Due to a suggestion at the beginning of the project from Alex Russell, I decided to look at maps of different parts of Manchester, whilst others in the group looked at the spread of germs and disease which came from the over crowding of Manchester during the Industrial Revolution.
First I looked at the more Industrial areas of Manchester, around the City Centre:
I then did a series of drawings from these maps, including blind drawings, continuous line drawings and negative drawings:
I decided to look at an area which has always been residential, to show the idea of over crowding better:
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I continued my idea from earlier of using different techniques, however I layered drawings, and also used colour differently, whilst creating larger scale versions to imagine them as patterns:
I then created A2 versions of the maps, using home-made paint brushes (attached to a 50cm pole), ink and cut outs:
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