Assignment Three: Illustrating Visual Space

• A building.

It occured to me that it's really difficult to take a photograph of a whole building. Thankfully my church sits practically surrounded by fields.

Building 1 (Mickfield Evangelical Church)

Mickfield Evangelical Church. View full-size (protected)

Into black & white ...

Mickfield Evangelical Church in black & white. View full-size (protected)

The brief was to replicate the photo in varying sizes and positions, to remake the building...

Mickfield Evangelical Church made out of repeated photos of itself. View full-size (protected)

I'm not sure what to make of it, to be honest.

Later, I was in Asda and saw some model buildings designed to hold candles...

"Building" 2

Mickfield Evangelical Church. View full-size (protected)

Into black & white ...

Mickfield Evangelical Church. View full-size (protected)

To be honest, not a lot of difference.

The holes for the windows and doors gave me an idea...

Mickfield Evangelical Church. View full-size (protected)

• A child running or walking.

For all of these I wanted to work from photographs that I had taken myself, but I wasn't comfortable taking photos of a child, even one of my own, for the purpose of uploading to the internet.

This was the solution I came up with:

'Pedestrians in Road Ahead' sign. View full-size (protected)

A better sign would have been the 'Children Crossing' road sign, but where I live these are only placed close to a primary school - and I wasn't about to loiter anywhere near a primary school with a camera!

Into black & white ...

'Pedestrians in Road Ahead' sign. View full-size (protected)

I then tried to "remake" the sign using pictures of the sign itself...

'Pedestrians in Road Ahead' sign. View full-size (protected)

• A tree.

So I went outside and took a picture of a tree:

A bare winter tree. View full-size (protected)

It turns out, January is not a great time for photographing trees.

No matter, I was able to find an evergreen:

A Leylandii tree. View full-size (protected)

Yay for Leylandii's. Now, into black & white:

A Leylandii tree. View full-size (protected)

I then tried to recreate the tree using this image. The original was a very "busy" image, so I started with a blank canvas. I added a two-colour background to give a feel for land and sky.

A Leylandii tree. View full-size (protected)

I then looked around my garden for other trees...

A bare winter tree. View full-size (protected)

This is a buddleia outside our kitchen. Not exactly a stunning example of a tree, is it?

This is another so-called "tree" in our garden:

A bare winter tree. View full-size (protected)

(we are not great gardeners!)

What's left? Well there's just one, a plum tree:

A bare winter tree. View full-size (protected)

Into black & white...

A bare winter tree. View full-size (protected)

I then had an idea:

A bare winter tree. View full-size (protected)

I used the thicker stumpy tree as the trunk and thicker branches, and the buddleia (aka "the thinner stumpy tree") as the branches. The three coloured areas are the grass, the fence and the sky.

© Kevin Warren - fibrocreativity (fc)