My experimentation links to my research of existing leaflets, in particular the Butterfly World leaflet. This design caught my attention due to the textured background that it featured, perhaps a close up examination or what looks like a butterfly or a moth, that the strong texture and bold colour brought the imagination to life, wondering what that texture could be. I decided to look online to see what textured techniques I could create myself relating more to the general subject: Conservation of wildlife.
I came across a very interesting piece that immediately caught my attention, a unique style that I haven't seen used so intelligently whilst creating a minimalist, decorative piece. Even in black and white, I find this style greatly effective.
This piece was created by an artist called Susan Lorraine Weselnick, she describes that her piece begun with a series of graphite texture rubbings, Weselnick then chose a self taken photograph of her cat simply sitting on a post in the garden. Susan Weselnick then put this piece together by scanning her textures into Photoshop and assembling them to the silhouettes within her image. I find this technique very imaginative, and even in black and white the pattern seems to come to life.
I think that this theme and style could work really nicely within my leaflet and have decided to find some natural substances that I can take various chalk/paint rubbings from to fit with my Eco-friendly brief, reusing materials for another/multiple purpose(s).
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I decided to use a brown piece of chalk and a small bunch of twigs I had found from a trimmed hedge, I like the effect it created and you can tell what the subject is. However, I found the twigs difficult to take rubbings of as it was hard to keep them flat and still. In hindsight I could've glued a few twigs together, although this would have looked more uniformed and not so natural like what I was trying to achieve.
I then decided to take a print from a piece of tree bark, this time using poster paint thinly spread over the bark. (This would then be composted after use and biodegrade as normal) I then placed a thin piece of paper on top of the bark, I decided this way was best so I could lightly press the paper into the deeper parts of texture. However, I did not like the use of paint and preferred to use chalk. I feel that the subject is hard to recgonise or not as recognisable as I would've liked, I still followed this experimentation forward more.
Using the same piece of bark and painting it up several times I created a wall of the textured print. I believe the subject is slightly more recognisable here and glad that I chose brown to help aid recognition of the tree bark.
I found these experiments relatively insightful, yet I feel that this technique doesn't quite pull off the effect that I had hoped, I shall therefore arrange a day to take high standard photography to see whether I can capture the texture better through image.
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