I like my town by Siren(JinYi)

I like my town

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:30:07 UTC

This week my friends and I went to the British Museum and we spent two days sketching and studying the exhibits in the museum. I drew this picture using a quick combination of outlining pens and ink with statues representing different cultures. It contains East Asian Gods and Buddhas, Indians, Mongol wars, and gems from the Qing Dynasty to name a few.

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:35:08 UTC

I painted this one on a blue backdrop, I saw an ancient Chinese stone wall carved with dragons that had been chopped up and transported here, and put back together a second time, and I thought it was a shame, so I re-created the wall in my own style, and then combined it with modern elements, as well as some mummies from Ancient Egypt, to make it into a more complete picture.

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:38:31 UTC

I used watercolour and thick pens on this yellow background paper. Piecing together ancient Egyptian elements into a painting

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:40:20 UTC

Here are some of the items I photographed that are intact in the British Museum.

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:41:19 UTC

I attempted to trace a hummingbird specimen from the British Museum in coloured pencil and then used black marker pens to create a monochrome background to echo the subject. This is a style of my own, I think colour is the colour of life as it should be, and the black and white backgrounds and elements are like the box they were kept in after being made into specimens, sealing in the colour that would have been there.

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:44:24 UTC

Before I actually started using text printing, I used nail sketches to make some plans.

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:47:21 UTC

I thought back on my story with Elephant and Castle and decided to incorporate my experience of being robbed, and I recorded several of the images I had envisioned.

This is the effect I first decided I wanted to create.

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:48:26 UTC

But in the end, because I couldn't find the right body of text, I changed the situation and then pasted in some keywords that I thought would mention my story with Elephant and Castle.

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:50:07 UTC

It ended up looking like this.

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:51:17 UTC

On the different backgrounds

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:52:22 UTC

On the green background

On the different backgrounds

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:54:00 UTC

On the black one ,its really inconspicuous

I have some sketching plans that I drew ahead of time that I want to use in the relief print work

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:56:18 UTC

Some of buildings in Elephant and Castle

Some elements that I think could represent Elephant and Castle.

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:57:41 UTC

Trains, tracks, rotting poles, buildings, and lots and lots of graffiti walls!

My friend in Highline Building

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 17:58:21 UTC

Before we do the actual relief print ,Mr Richard just asked us to do some of easy scratches

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 18:00:04 UTC

I ended up using my own story with Elephant and Castle. I created a man on the run, a man who is a thief in Elephant and Castle, holding several mobile phones that he had just robbed. Behind him are the large hands tracking him.

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 18:04:17 UTC

I used blue and green at the beginning,but me and Richard thought that was to Boring so we try to cut of the rubber stamp and divided them ,than we print them in two different colours

Final look

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 18:06:57 UTC

Red represents nervous and warnings ，Red represents tension and warning, in the escape of the thief may be such a mood, behind the chasing hand is the continuation of the shadow, although only two hands, but represents the mood of all those who have been robbed.

The last three paintings on display

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 18:08:56 UTC

The advices that I received

c44zcpyc72_ — 2023-12-06 18:09:38 UTC