Christmas Project

For the Christmas project I focused back on my Journey but around my home town, Reading! I recorded this in a differnt way then when I looked at Journeys in a previous project.

Screenshot of a map

Journey 1

Before i started doing the project, i printed out some images of maps in and around Reading. While traveling around i marked out on the map where i had been, using black paint because i found that it showed up better on the maps.

Journey 2

After doing these i decided I didn't actually like this idea and I just wanted to stop doing it full stop but then i decided that i could try and do a similar thing but in a different way.

Next ideas

I decided to sketch out another Journey, this time i started at home and ended up at my friends house after going to the cinema. I stopped the line drawing once i got to a place and started in a new place when I carried on the journey, again i thought this was kind of boring and didn't want to carry on. At this stage I knew I shouldn't have concentrated on journeys but it was also too late to stop and do something else so i decided to look on the brief to get some inspiration. At this point i came across Stanley Brouwn and his work stood out to me, at that point i knew what i was going to try next. 

Stanley Brouwn

The peice of work i looked at was called 'This way Brouwn' and it gave me an idea of what to do next.
http://www.walkerart.org/collections/artworks/this-way-brouwn
For this peice of work Brouwn went around and asked people for directions to places and asked them to draw a map for him using ink.

From Brouwn's work I done a similar thing by creating a map but not asking people and using different coloured acrylic paint. Each colour shows a different journey from different locations. I really liked this outcome especially because in the beginning I really didn't think that this project was going to go any further.
Doing this i noticed that when i was in the car the lines weren't straight and go around have curved edges, this is because I would go around roundabouts and not round a corner. Whereas when i walked the lines are more edged where I would walk around a corner and not think if it was a curved corner or not, my head just saw it as a corner so thats what i painted.