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long way to go

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Documenting the process

These are some photographs I took during the process of making my wallpapers, the wallpapers took many, many, many, many hours to complete. The wallpapers are highly detailed to show the complexity and beauty of nature. It was a challenge to work on such a large scale, especially when they were on the wall, working on a different angle. 

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Final Piece Photography

This is my final piece, I wanted lots of negative space in the background to make the wallpapers and nature, the focal point. The infinity wall gives a sense of timelessness linking to the ancient world I am depicting in the pieces, the ancient world of nature. The gap in between the wallpapers shows a divide in our relationship with nature, and nature itself, representing how we are destroying nature. 

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Sprawling Nature-Inspired Mural Drawn Entirely with a Sharpie

After seven long months of work, California-based artist Sean Sullivan finished Grand Pale Maw, an expansive drawing that covered the wall of a hallway in

This is an artist working with sharpies and creating large scale works, so it links a lot to my current wallpaper project. I love the detail he adds to his work it makes the mural much more engaging and powerful. 

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5 Sharpie Art Exercises From Timothy Goodman

These 5 sharpie art exercises from Timothy Goodman's book will help get you started on your Sharpie drawing journey.

Using sharpies as the main material to make my wallpapers. This is an ordinary object that is considered boring, much like nature, so I want to change peoples perception of the material and nature. 

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12 best colouring books for adults

Forget about the idea that colouring books are for kids. In a busy world, increasingly dominated by time spent in front of screens, grown ups are turning to the soothing art of colouring in. But the books we're talking about are not reminiscent of the freebie colouring sheets handed out at chain restaurants that we remember from our childhoods. These are intricately designed books, some created specifically to help you de-stress and focus the mind.

Colouring in becoming more and more popular with adults 

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Returning to Lucille Clerc

Clerc has inspired my nature inspired work as she has a beautiful way of showing natural forms with industrial like materials. She tries to tell a story in her work, and I love her recent work involving video to give her work the illusion it is moving and alive. I am focusing towards her interior work which is large scale, as I want to create a dramatic piece that wont get lost in an exhibition. I want my wallpaper series to be powerful and show the beauty and complexity of nature and try and get people to realise what harm we cause to our planet.

Lucille Clerc was influenced by her home city of Nancy, where art and craft methods have thrived for centuries, she focuses on the wonderful and mysterious world of nature and our effect on it.  Lucille uses a simple technique of penciling and brushwork to create highly detailed abstract images. Each of her beautiful hand drawn pieces takes you into a new world of colour, shape and unbelievable detail. I thought this links well to my work as I also love to create detail using traditional techniques, although digital skills are very important for the future and I need to improve my knowledge, I never want to loose my passion for simple crafted methods, I think this project Is a chance to explore and find that balance. Clerc mixes realism with surrealism, the plants and botanical elements that elegantly flow throughout her work look realistic but are immersed in a strange world of industrial materials and gravity defying metropolises. I think this makes something that we consider quite ordinary interesting again. The mix of wild plants and household pipes makes a surprisingly aesthetically pleasing image, I like this juxtaposition as the image is beautiful however to me, it shows a darker meaning, of us ruling over nature and trying to contain or destroy it with our grey cities. This links to my work as I am looking at our relationship with nature.

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Nature Inspired, Art & Interior

“The idea was to explore how nature would look like, in an engineered environment. The installation works as a story, developing on 4 walls over 26 meters of wall paper without repetition. It starts with the cells and a nursery stage where plants grow their roots and it ends in the main area where they are fully grown and full of artificial patterns. When night comes, the projections created by Convivial Studio start to appear. Using mapping, they match my illustrations creating 3d effect and modifying the shapes and patterns of the plants like a surreal garden. They also react to sound and adapt to the time of the day so that whenever you come to see the place, it will always look a little different” (Clerc,2015).

Clerc, L. (2015). Nevergreen Jaguar Shoes Collective. Retrieved from http://lucilleclerc.com/lucilleclerc-jaguarshoes.html.