I started to look at my drawings and think where I could take them next I began to photo copy some of my drawings and turn then into collages by layering them on top of one another and then working from that. When I went to photo copy them something strange happened when i copied the drawings that I had done using goache paint they changed colour.
The original image that I painted was all blue and I left the the design so I was painting the actual background but when I photo copied it I came out bright pink! First of all I thought It was vile but i decided that I was going to use it in my work because I have to pay for my photo copies. I was surprised how much I liked it when I started to work with it. I call things like this happy mistakes, what I liked about this as well is it was something that I had no control over it just happened and for a good reason.
I combined two studies that I did of William Morris's wallpaper from the special collection archive I used the same colour that I used for the background on the original drawing of the one that turned pink. I really want to make more collages like this and develop my work further perhaps bringing even more than two images into one drawing. This drawing is very relevant as it's what I'm going to base the reset of my drawings on this colour pallet. I really like contrast of the blue on the pink.
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