I have been thinking of making these arches for years, after being inspired by an artwork I saw back in South Africa. The work was built up to create depth, with lights cleverly hidden somewhere in the background that gave the work an atmospheric presence.
This is a short documentation of my own attempt with a slightly different approach. I used pics I took in the beautiful cloisters of the Palais des Papes in Avignon because of their awe-inspiring size and the way light streamed through the meticulously carved arches. The three layers of my work will create depth of perspective and right at the back, a strip of minute lights will hopefully bring a sense of celestial mystery. Enjoy!

Exploring the use of a variety of mediums and substrates
(Optional: This blog could be viewed with the backup of a box with of some of the hard-copy drawings and my class journal)
I like doing lots of pencil drawing so this challenge was indeed for me to get away from the standard type of drawings and re the brief, explore different and non-art materials in mark-making.
I found it really difficult to take a drawing seriously if I did not approach it with lots of detail in mind, so this created a bit of tension. It was freeing though to just be able to play and see what happens, and a few unsuccessful attempts were discarded in the process. I did not do it in sequence but randomly at first and later filled in the ones I still needed. 
I would not by all means say that this is my best work, but if we were supposed to explore and have fun with experimental mark-making, I did indeed. 
The time constraint (especially combined with our other subjects' work load) made it really difficult for me, I like to spend more time planning and executing, but see the value in working within limitations. It forces a different way of thinking and that again brings ideas that would not have been otherwise.

​Digital self-portrait on the bus, drawn with a simple default note-writing app on mobile phone. This the first time I ever used this app. One can make a selection of different drawing tools and choose the thickness of line and density of colour, which allowed unexpected transparency and layering of 'washes'. This is on-the-spot drawing with little allowance for correction, as the eraser tool erases colour too and colouring over already coloured areas results in darker shades, making colour matching impossible. The little control over the exact point where the line would start makes precision in continuing an erased line difficult. But in general, fun and freeing

We went camping and I took a random assortment of materials along to work on the challenge. Some other campers were fishing and I thought a fish could be good for making a stamp with some graphic patterning. I did the drawing layout with a black liner and cut the design with lino tools. I always forget that the print will be the reverse of the original, and were mildly surprised at the printed fish looking the other way. The coloured ink pads gave an interesting 'under-water' look but smoother paper in stead of slightly textured art journal paper would probably give a more even print