First idea

First Idea - What is a interior?


After hearing the about the project I instantly started thinking about what my theme could be. I wanted to be able to bring in my interests to the project so that I enjoy it, based on other projects I realised this was important in my motivation.

After thinking about the question and then thinking about what I like drawing, nature is something that inspires me a lot and something that I would feel interested in drawing. After seeing a post on Urban Gardens in Paris I thought this would be an interesting way to bring nature into an interior in an interesting way. Urban environments are interesting because as the population of the cities increases the land gets more built up and green spaces and gardens are harder to find. Instagram has been filled with cacti and other exotic plants so that was a great inspiration with starting the project. After summer where tropical prints were big it made me think that normally things come into interiors following fashion trends. A lot of people want to bring nature into their world even if they live in a small apartment crammed within a busy city.

I started by just taking images from google of exotic leaves and plants that you wouldn't find in the middle of the city but in a rainforest instead and painting them.
I thought that as watercolour is my preferred media I would give it a shot. But unfortunately I was finding it really hard to like what I was creating. If i don't love the work I am producing then I often feel unmotivated and don't want to show it. I am not sure why I was finding it hard, I'm use to using watercolour but I think it was a real challenge to paint all in green tones and I was finding it hard to paint the shapes of the leaves from photos online.