Ran Worth Broad and Tide and Time Museum

On the 11th of October, we visited Ran Worth Broad and the Tide and Time museum where we were shown and introduced to a few quick, different ways of drawing. On our walk at the broad we had to remember the pathway we had just walked on and we kept stopping and starting on our journey where would have to stop and look at our surroundings, one technique I found interesting but also quite difficult to capture; looking at the woodland, we had to draw a vertical line from what we could see, but then had to find something horizontal which was the difficult part as there was mainly trees around us, which meant we had to look extra carefully for a branch going horizontal or a certain line or shape. Further along our walk, we tried to draw whilst walking, trying to capture anything and everything we could see, this was also an interesting approach as you had to be extremely quick with the drawing and the placement of sketches on the page which looked quite random and misplaced. Moreover, nearer to the end of the walk, we sat and had to capture the movement of the waves, I found this very interesting and not something I would've thought to draw, but it created some unique lines and marks, most of the types of drawing we had to do I had not thought of before, we also had to draw the sound of the wind through the plants, all of these different concepts each capture completely different and unique lines and marks, this inspired me to think deeper into what could create a mark rather than just an obvious object/detail that's straight in front of your eyes, it encourages you to look and think deeper.

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All of these marks above are examples of my work, inspired by the Ran Worth broad and the drawing workshops we done here. I created back grounds for each of these using a range of oil pastel and paint, I feel that making these textures to work on top of creates more of a contrasting and interesting image to look at compared to a plain white back ground. Each is inspired by a different aspect of the walk, the ripples in the river, the details within the plants and the lines inspired by the journey of the walk.

Moreover, the second part of the day was visiting the Tide and Time museum in Great Yarmouth, this mainly included the history of Great Yarmouth and information about sea life and the making of smoked salmon.

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The Tide and Time museum was interesting, however I wasn't extremely inspired by the objects and things to see as I found it difficult at first to find aspects of the museum that I thought looked inspiring or interesting, the main things I did enjoy looking at are shown in the slideshow above. I found these specific things interesting for me and my project as they include sculptures, baskets and brick, the marks within these link to certain marks already experimented with within my project which instantly made me relate. However, throughout the time we had looking in the museum we had a few discussions as groups and found that there were more textile elements to the museum than we thought, the baskets, fishing nets, interiors of boats, clothing of people during this time, rope on the stairs and other elements, once we had this discussion I then became more aware and inspired by certain objects. From this visit, I create several textures and mark making images that linked to the things I was inspired by within the trip.