I really loved this class, I had art block and this was the perfect class to help get back up. Thank you!

I loved my map so much I decided to frame it. 

 

My thought process

 

I worked from my class notes.

My map title Tici Land is actually my social media name, I came up with this name from some life events. One of my friends has always called me Tici and my mum used to say that I lived in Tracy Land as I was growing up, it felt natural to combine the names for my social media accounts. 

 

Ira talks about your map meaning something and since I was experiencing art block I decided to map my past imagination, this was an easy lead for the scale marker.

 

As I was mapping my past imagination of Tici Land my symbols and landmarks became pieces of old illustrations I have done, as shown below.

 

Houseplant City

 

 

Treecup Isle

 

The Pencil Tree

 

My flying Pencils 

 

My Monster

 

For my compass rose it felt natural to choose the moon as the night sky and stars are something I often paint and am very attracted to.

 

I feel that by mapping my past imagination it helped me create a world that was always within myself. I kept to my own illustration style, and sparked some motivation and inspiration to move past my art block. 

I pieced all these things together on some scrap paper then transferred the image to my watercolour paper. 

 

 

My Materials

* strathmore 500 series watercolor paper

* faber castell fine liners

* schmincke watercolor

* winsor and newton masking fluid