Texture Notebook

I started a texture notebook after a tutorial with Elaine thinking about how I could adapt my work to appeal to more people (eg. the visually impared). When I started the brief I began by investigating blindness and focusing my work aroung our sense of sight. I collected lots of textured fabrics pieces of corrugated cardboard, scrunched up tinfoil, cotton wool, bark etc and compiled them in a texture notebook so I could refer back to it and gradually add to it throughout the year so I would have a build-up of work. I think t will be very useful. See some pictures below :

 These photos are taken from up near the viscom room, 3rd floor of the college where there is damp on the walls and the paint has begun to peel.

Also took these photos of bark. . . .

They have a great textural quality and lovely subtle shades of yellows and brown.