Pop-Up Photography

After completing various drawings and designs from my Pop-Up objects I felt the need to study them in a different manner. I began to observe the effect of light on my objects and the marks and textures created by their shadows. These photographs I feel have greatly informed the type of marks I have used in some of my drawings and made them much more interesting, as well as being a series of sensitive photographs in their own right.

Playing with shape and tone to create marks.

 I then began to incorporate some of the objects themselves into the photographs as well as adding the element of shadow so there was a contrast of sharp and soft marks.

These photographs inspired a series of drawings the two below are just examples of how i translated the shapes found in my images onto paper, experimenting with texture and fine marks.