Visual Narratives - development

I have continued to work with the theme of abstracting space and removing or obscuring contextual information to translate spaces to abstract compositions. Following on from my research into 'Atelier Bingo' and Mishka Henner, I have explored, firstly, how my line drawings translate to shape based, cut paper images and also how removing information from my own photographs and re drawing it in in a more abstract way might work to express the themes I am dealing with.

Original line drawing.

Collage using flat colour and magazine
cut outs.  

   

Original Line Drawing.

                

Collage using only flat colour.

Photograph of window with view drawn
in.

               

Cut out of one page with collage behind.

I have decided that the outcomes derived from inserting drawn replacements of the views from windows into photographs taken looking through those windows are not particularly effective. I like both the basic collage interpretations of my drawings and the cut out technique but feel that in both instances flat colour is the way to go. The textures are not relevant to what I am trying to communicate and often, I have found, just confuse or over complicate the images. The colour really only need serve as a way of distinguishing between the various shapes which make up the imagery and I think having maybe three bold, flat colours will produce the best effects.

Other ideas I intend to try:

Creating the imagery more freely, not drawing the shapes out with pencil before cutting         them.

 

Refining the cut out technique (which I think I might employ for the front and back cover of my book) and creating some with just flat colour behind.

Increasing the level of abstraction by rearranging the shapes in any given photograph I     might be working from so that I am no longer only representing how things are actually    

positioned in a space, but altering that so the images become more independent.