My quote is, "and what a garden I have made," and it is from a Tallest Man on Earth song. The song is really quite morbid, but I don't mean that for my quote at all. I just thought the line was lovely.

My mood board looks absolutely chaotic but is a collection of vintage seed packs and other garden-y things. I found it very interesting how some of the seed packs used their type with the illustrations and I want to play with that a little. I also created a board of vintage signs that I thought would be interesting to reference in addition to the seed packets.

Garden - image 1 - student project

Garden - image 2 - student project

Garden - image 3 - student project

For the warmup, I did the following 9 versions of the word "garden" from my quote.

Garden - image 4 - student project

I've started on some very rough sketches, and that is where I'm at now! I need to refine how I'm going to handle the non-dominate words instead of just writing them. That'll come with further sketching!

Garden - image 5 - student project

I picked a sketch to pursue a bit more, and I've done two more versions of it..

Garden - image 6 - student project

Garden - image 7 - student project

And I've also refined how I think I want Garden to look!

Garden - image 8 - student project

Well, its been a very very long time since I updated this, but I just got back around to working on this some more, and I decided to change directions quite a bit once I took another look at it.
Anyway, here's where it is right now, any suggestions are welcome!

Garden - image 9 - student project

Rachel Ross

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