Shakespeare Visual Journal Pt1

• This mark represents how Shakespeare's work was wrapped up in political and familial conflict often ending in death.
•  Much how Shakespeare's own life contained complexities when in came to things as his social status, religion and political loyalties that could have easily seen him dead. 
•  Creating a mark for individual plays could help me visualise how I feel about them.

• First attempt a visualisation of a motif - Possessiveness
• Purple used for historical context how purple was legally only allowed to be worn by royalty.
• Will look into using colours and imagery that relates to the time period they where from and there significance.
• Enjoyed the more abstract for, of this although the hands could interact more.  

• Look into the major sins & emotions used in Shakespeare's work.
• How Shakespeare's Catholicism did impact on his work and the way he wrote his characters, 
• Guilt is a major part of most of his plays as it is heavily discussed and practiced within Catholicism.
• This piece was rushed, poorly crafted and no real thought went into composition. 
• Creating a creature that symbolises the Shakespearian catholic ideals of guilt maybe something to look into. 

• Testing out the idea of guilt but not in anyway personified
• Line work is too rough as is shading.
• Need to use more hand and face references, black paper would have been good here.

• Working out the routes I can explore within my journal.
• Use of Biblical/Catholic morals and imagery is crucial to the way I want to approach this.
• Research and Reflection will be important to developing my visual work in this module.
• Starting to use both text and imagery??

• Tried to begin by taking quotes from texts and creation illustrations for them.
• i don't think this is too bad but it isn't to the high level of crafting I want also the paint refused to work on the shiny surface of the printed paper. 
• Need to look in to typography and lettering again
• Less colours as I will only be using 2 colours (+3 if I incorporate the paper and negative space within my image)

• Focusing on 2 plays instead of 3 allows for more in depths looks into  both the play and narrative poem
• Type and Lettering need to be used or attempted at within my sketchbook next.
• Try some larger scale things to help push boundaries and take more risks maybe.
• Look deeper into race and gender within both play/poem as well as their historical context.