Using dry mediums i began looking over contextual sources i had collected for my topic in journey. I enjoyed doing this task as it allowed me to view how my contextual sources could be brought together and used. I began by looking at the first page of a child's book that once belonged to my mum, the page contained my mums name and her sisters as they fought over ownership of the book. I found this interesting as it showed how important the book was to the each of them, additionally this was a book i grew up with and it made me think how this was a story we all loved and knew, yet never shared how we imagined it as everyone imagines things differently. To me the first page of a book is very important, it's what grabs the reader's interest but for this instance it was the ink imprinted on the page by two kids that loved the same book. I decided to recreate this with fine liner , pencil and scraped graphite to age the page to be the beginning of my search into the journey of fantasy vs reality.
For the next section, using shading pencils, i drew out two books that differ a lot in their story and appearance. The bottom book was a hardback kids book called "The Wishing Chair", about wishes and fantasy worlds; the top book was a teen/adult book called "All The Bright Places", about two teens taking a journey, discovering interesting parts in their town whilst also finding a will to live. The second book carried a much more heavy topic that kept things realistic, however the places they visited added a sense of beauty. This book had a sad ending that made me cry but also remember the important relationship that the two teens had. I used graphite and charcoal to add darker sections, and by using a q-tip to fade it all together. Then darkened the background by smudging charcoal with a cotton ball. I used a rubber to lighten areas then fineliner to add a quote from Alfred Lord Tennyson that i heard in a Tv show. I felt this quote was relevant to both books, the kids book they went on a fantasy journey by wishing. Then the teen book it was almost like their relationship was a dream and it helped them both escape from their problems.
I took this extract from the first kids book that was called "The Folk Of The Faraway Tree". I redrew a section of the illustration using biro and continuous lines, then used smudged charcoal to add a mist around the drawing to make it look like a fragment someone had remembered from their dream and the rest of it was unclear. I then added a little bit of the dialogue as it reminded me of Alice in Wonderland with the talk of "a party". I thought this part of the story fitted quite well with my topic as Connie, the little girl, wanted to leave as she thought the tree with all the fantasy things in it was quite ridiculous. It showed how some people grow up and take a grasp of reality, and for those that don't are seen as childish and ridiculous. However Moonface follows her and she stays anyway. This showed how everyone has a dream that they wish they could follow or how people always say they miss their childhood and wish they could go back to it.
For the next page i stuck a ripped piece of brown paper to the page and used fine liner to draw leaves and branches as if it was coming from the next page over about the faraway tree. The page already contained some pencil shading on the edge from where i continued to draw in the gaps cut into the page. Then i got a leaf from the branches i had brought in and tried placed it on the page, using charcoal i scraped over it to see if i would get an outline. The outline is rough but the charcoal darkened the leaf which i liked as if the fineliner had been drawn on it so i stuck it to the branch.
On the last page i used fine liner to draw out a butterfly that i had taken a picture of. I began scribbling one wing before closing the gaps more and using charcoal to fade into and darken the rest of the butterfly. This made it appear more sinister or like as if someone is describing the butterfly and that was filling in the gaps in someone's imagination. I included a made up quote that i mixed together from a screenshot of a story written by a murderer in a fiction crime show. In the screenshot you see the words "at night she'd leave" then i added in "and fly south" from a song called fly south by a band called Walking On Cars that make amazing dream like sounds in their music with lyrics that include the dream idea.
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