Sasha Decaro

When creating my 10 initial drawings, I decided to do most when I was sat at Brick Lane. I found this difficult because I would end up spending too much time on one drawing. When I realised this was happening I started to be more expressive with the marks I was making. I found that I did my most successful drawings when I didn’t expect to create something amazing but was just experimenting. There were medias I used that I found easier to be more expressive with like crayons and chalk. I found these two medias helped me portray the spray painted look that I observed at Brick Lane. It was challenging for me to do some of the pieces that have more detail just from observation. To overcome this I took pictures of the pieces of street art that interested me the most and worked into the into my drawings at home. Another challenge I overcame was using colour. Usually I  stick to neutral tones when I am doing  anything creative. I was hesitant at first But I found working with different coloured paper such as black forced me to use colour more freely. I also found that when I first went to Brick Lane for this task, I processed all the colours in my mind mix together but when I started placing colours on the page I started to see different combinations of colours that I really liked together such as pink and green. This was really inspiring for me and something I now want to take forward into future projects that I do.