I took many photos to use as reference in my project.

I drew this boat using alcohol markers to experiment the use of a different medium and used a photo of a boat I took as reference 

I really like the vibrant colours in animals such as jellyfish and frogs which makes them standout to their surroundings, therefore i made three paintings experimenting with mediums and highlights of the vibrant colours.

mediums used are Acrylics, Inks and water colour.

Here I made two observational drawing experimenting with water colour and fine liners.  the shadow was drawn using cross hatching and hatching to separate the shell from its shadow. I used shells found on the beach as reference.

Serge Alain Nitegeka reference

Bridget Riley, born early 1900's, is an English painter known for her optical art paintings. when I First saw her work I really liked her abstract work and use of colour.​​​​​​​

A digital drawing of a whale done in photoshop 

stage 1: I drew a whale using fine liners on A4 paper and copied the drawing onto Photoshop

stage 2: on photoshop I added the colours and dark+light parts of the drawing. 

then added a layer covering the whale made of small fish drawing that I made, this was to give contrasting effect of small and Big animals.

stage 3: at the end I experimented with a background made of many colours inspired by Bridget Riley to contrast the drawing in the foreground.

Using photos from Newhaven harbor and reference from Serge Alain Nitegeka and Bridget Riley I made 2 drawing using alcohol markers.

I really like the geometric shapes that Serge Alain Nitegeka uses in his work and that's why I added it to my work, I also like the wide variety of colours that Bridget Riley uses and therefore I experimented with that to contrast the black and white only drawing.

Using Gel pens I drew star fish and coral plants, I chose starfish because they have  a lot of details on them, i also made an abstract ink background filled with colours to contrast the white only starfish drawing.

Here i used photoshop to make 2 composites of the starfish.

For the top one i made a black background and used the ink background to bring out the starfish and coral plants with colour which also creates a contrast with the background.  

For the bottom one i changed the colour of the starfish to create variation, i also added more vibrant colours in the background to create an interesting effect with the overlapping colours.