Assignment 3: Exercise 4: Making a Moodboard

 

This exercise was fun. We were asked to create a mood-board on one of a choice of four themes  I chose the theme of Nature  

As with each of the themes, Nature is huge, with millions of possibilities for creative work  I decided to narrow things down by taking one of my photos of my local park as a starting point. I gathered some papers and fabrics in greens and browns, choosing some which reminded me of the texture of bark  I also printed an image of bark that I liked, as well as some leaf shapes and a sketch of a tree in pencil  I drew some rather flamboyant grass and was interested to see how different it looks vertically, the only space I could find for it! While there weren’t any flowers in my photo, I thought that they could have made an interesting focal point, so I included some flowery and some yellow fabric too.

It was strange to create a mood-board with no purpose in mind. It’s hard to know how useful this gathering has been when I don’t know what it’s for. I would like to use this approach again when I’m researching a project or brief as I think it would be a bit more focussed than a spider diagram. My spider diagrams can get a bit out of hand! This has more focus and is also much more enjoyable.