This watercolour and pencil illustrations were in direct reference to the woodland and birds within the story and I wanted to make multiple images like this to combine into one pattern design or composition that I could then repeat. Although I was happy with these and felt that the painting of the fern in particular showed some improvements in my skills at painting with watercolour, I was still producing motifs and found it hard to think of other imagery to produce and get these to all match up together.
After being a bit stuck yet again, I decided to do some experiments using ink, watercolour and other materials I could find such as ground coffee. I wasn't really sure what would come of this but I liked the combination of textures and colour. Then as I was creating the piece pictured directly bellow, I started to produce something that looked like a trail of pebbles and therefore began to form the composition in this direction. For my final design I would not use black as I don't feel like this properly depicts the atmosphere of the story however I did get an idea from this experimentation that I could work with and develop to better fit the narrative.
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