Summer project: an introduction to layers

Introduction to layers

I have been given the project layers for my as level art work. With conducting a lot of research into the term layers i have found that i would like to do my work on buildings, walls and cities. Whilst on holiday in Italy i was given the chance to visit the beautiful site of Herculaneum, in its simplest terms it is a city under a city. This interested me for my layers project because the city of Herculaneum is under the another city which creates a layer. Lucky i got go inside and explore around Herculaneum and once in the middle of the partly dug up site, i looked up to see the to living city above and this amazed me. Not only the the big layers of city upon city but the small layers of mud, grass and concrete that had separated this hidden city from the rest of the world left me in amazement. This is why throughout this project have chosen to mainly look at layers of brick, layers of cities and Herculaneum, the city hidden under a city. I enjoy using a lot of texture in my sketch books because i feel that it creates more interest and helps me develop my ideas a lot more, this is why i found using buildings as layers would help me a lot because i can bring texture into my ideas easily. Throughout my sketch book i have studied 3 different artists, so i could bring together all of their influences on my work through using materials and focusing on the layers of bricks and buildings.