In this exercise we were asked to look at the preparatory drawings in the previous exercises and produce a composition using elements from those drawings. I still had the romance of the view from my cousin’s house in France at the forefront of my mind and wanted to use that as a basis but incorporate the rolling charcoal clouds that I’d been so pleased with in the cloud exercise. I decided to echo that style in the rolling hills and woodland and was really pleased with the results. I hadn’t really tried working from preparatory drawings or composing images in this way before and it felt quite exciting. This was charcoal and ink on A3.
Flora OCA drawing 1 