working with old photographs and collage.

here a few pictures of my sketchbook, experimenting with old family photography and collage. 

  layering up different papers to see what effects i can create.

making yarn wrappings by selecting the colour and arranging the yarns proportionally.

 i carried on the lines found in the photographs to create stripes and checks.

i really enjoy working with photographs. old and new. but there's something about old photos that make me excited. maybe it's the stories associated with them that i will never know, but will just have to guess in my head. i don't know where the place is in the picture, nor the people in them. i just know they're my family.