Looking for layers

As I had mentioned in my last post,  I missed my paint brush. Well once I had used one again to create expressive marks, I felt that something else was still missing. After thinking for some while and searching through my blog and sketchbook I realised that I haven't used any of my own photography in a long time. Without sounding dramatic, I was shocked, I love photography and couldn't wait to start using it within my art so I was baffled to see that I hadn't been. I have been recently been taking taking a few pictures of perfect examples of layers to me. I feel I can use each picture effectively within my sketchbook. I have been looking at the term of layers from a different point of view recently, I want to look at layers peeling aways from the surface, breaking off to reveal new layers, which may have been unseen. I feel that a great representation for this is rust, rust builds up over time, covering what was visible and changing it. Then when the rust starts to lift, you get this brand new layer, as mentioned before almost unseen to the eye. In addition to rust I have looked at paint peeling and wall paper peeling up. I feel that all of this shows layers in a brand new spectrum. I am excited to start my experiments using these pictures and more.