I really liked the patterns formed by the Bramante architectural plans. I also liked the idea of these being hand made and hand drawn. I recreated some with the printed papers I made.

i really liked the contrast of the printed papers, connected to a real place, texture and evoking dirt and wear. Alongside the pretty and detached, even idealized architectural drawing.

I made a number of clay moulds from textures on the walk and then from these latex casts.

I really like using the actual textures – If i want to use them in the future i’d like to work out a method to give them flat backs and handles meaning the printing process can be more even. As it is I made a series of printed papers from the stamps using the colours from my previous painting.

I took this photo of the Peabody Estate on Stamford Street – I liked the idea of the estate as a ‘gridded’ living space, the Peabody Trust estates are especially interesting as a number of estates in south London designed in the early 1930s as a modern and community minded living solution. Inspired by the Lewis Baltz exhibit i overlaid a grid on the photo and took details from that grid to paint.

I really enjoy the details making up an impression, but not a straight depiction, of the whole. Although I feel that the acrylic paint is a bit limited in it’s texture i did really appreciate how this exercise helped me sort out my colour palette for the ongoing project.

After finding so much interesting architecture on the walk I began to think about architectural plans – I was really drawn to these plans by Bramante. They use a square as a core principle as a perfect and balanced shape. the coloumn shapes make such interesting shapes – clearly squares but decorative and a little elusive.
This reminded me – along with Bramante’s principle of the ‘perfect’ building – of the diference between the reular and ideal square or grid and the reality of life and wear and decay.
I took latex casts of the clay moulds I had made and with these could make stamps and textured papers. I liked the idea of re creating these ‘ideal’ architectural drawings by hand and in textures taken from real places.

The photographs were really useful in terms of getting a feel for the textures and colours of a pace – after my research with prints and shadows I was really interested is industrially produced textures, like concrete, bricks and paving. Which was intended to be even, regular and often squared off but has become worn and irregular – showing up marks of use and age.

i especially like this last marble texture from Southwark Cathedral – they might look great in paint and ink

From our walk around SE1 I made a series of photographs of squares or square-like shapes in arichitecture and constructed surroundings.