Brain scan with depression.

Graphic Brain Scan Paintings.

The top image is a drawing of brain scan that shows someone suffering with depression I used a black fine liner and gouache paint. I never realized that brain scans show up coloured areas but the coloured areas are the active areas of the brain what I found more interesting is there was very little red and orange area but much more blue and purple. I find this interesting cause in my mind they would be the colours that I associate with depression they are very cold and just moody colours. What I really like about these images is there graphic approach I don't normally do drawings like this and I find it hard to work with paint but the gouache is a very bulky paint and looks very bold. With the blocks of colour and then the black lines from the fine liners It does have a very clean cut look to it. I need to transfer this clean cut image Into my weave and knit work. 

Beginning Weave into Sampling

Starting Weave.

My first attempts at weave I didn't think to much into what the outcome would be I just wanted to try out a few things and get a feel for it. The first sample below is fairly different from the rest of them as the majority of them are bold with bright colours but this one was after i did research into the brain atlas so I thought of brain scans as very monochrome. After doing this first sample though I got ideas for other samples mainly from the weave structers I like the ridged diagonal lines as It relates to my drawings as they have thick outlining in most of them. I used this technique in a later weave which is more relevant. 

First weave sample

Later weave sample influenced from the one above. 

Onion Printing.

Onion Printing. 

I got the idea to use and onion to print with from our drawing days we often do things that I never normally think about when it comes to drawing. I was looking at the onion and thinking about how certain aspects of it remind me of a brain all the lines running through it and the fact when you cut it you can see all the layers. The layers remind of the different sections of the brain. I cut into the layers along the layers to define the lines more. After printing it with ink I think used ink again to draw on top of my prints adding more detail and shadowing etc. I really like the look of the prints the have a very delicate but graphic look to them and I feel the defiantly look like brain scans. I really want to develop this way of creating drawings and develop using this technique later on.