Little arrows

while studying the road markings Ive become interested in arrows and what you can do with them. A woman crashed outside my house sunday night and took down 2 posts. she was ok thank god. I managed to get one of the signs before the gardai came. Iv added arrows cut out from photos i have taken of road markings. although this may seem like im going off track it tyies in with my walking while drawing sketchbook.

Road markings

While looking at the road markings i discovered that the are an artform in themselves. For the time being i am just going to work in my sketchpad figureing out how i can use or manipulate these shapes on the roads. Here are a few examples of road marking art.

Markings

Concentrating on photographs of different road markings. I like the face that the movement of traffic over them everyday has worn some of them so that they are jagged edged and patchy. I will look at other ways of recreating this.

pages

I really like the way the pages are done in this book. The buttons remind me of traffic lights. I will use this technique.

books

I thought i could stick with my theme from the start developing the walking while drawing sketchbook maybe into a series of books. My project is mainly based on the movement  in the city to be specific me taking a walk trying to capture the hussle and bussle of the city. I have also started looking at cars and the components that make a car. eg rubber, metal, leather. I will try to create a second book with rubbings of mt travels. I am being inspired by city and markings while i am walking.I would like to create a book inspired by cars and road markings similar in style to the one above. Will use photographs, rubbings, paint and mixed media to create the inside pages.