I decided to build up a layered collage of torn paper (taken from my sketchbook) to create a textured surface representing the area of the wall I am studying. This was in part to get to know the different layers and feel of the wall, and where various colours and tonal values occur - but also because my personal creative process seems to require me to pass through a detailed study phase before I can begin to explore looser and more abstract ideas around a subject. Once I was happy with the collage, I rubbed many layers of oil pastel into the surface using a limited palette that I felt most closely represented the colours in the wall. A photograph (included in my sketchbook opposite the final piece) was used as my reference.
Below are some close ups of the artwork showing the textured layers in more detail.
Finally, I took a rubbing of the final piece to verify the textures created on the page, and was quite pleased to see some basic correlation between these and the rubbing of the wall itself.
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