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Week 8: Generation of Idea

Ramita Eswarappa
Dec 9, 2022
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Liz Steel

Although Liz Steel is an architect by profession she loves sketching and has made herself known through her sketching skills. She has created a personal blog to show her drawings, techniques and materials she uses. We were first introduced to her during our postcard project (Monochromatic post cards) and also when we started learning observational drawing. Down below are some of her sketches.

Since it was the first time at drawing we did activities which helped us in getting a perspective of how observational drawings are done. So, we did three activities; Long arm, two pens and continues lines.

The best one according to me was continuous lines as there are no breakage of line which shows the flow of the picture and the perspective seems to be on point as compared to the other activities.


There are a few drawings I did after this activity and also after I read through a book written by Liz Steel on observational sketching, called 'Architecture- Super quick techniques for amazing drawings'. Some of the sketches were timed while the others were not. The images below show sketches I did using the technique of continuous lines and mark making.

Keeping Liz Steel's idea of watercolour rendering and observational drawing I was able to choose the St. Barnabas Church for my final collection.

St. Barnabas Church (Primary Research)

St. Barnabas Church

St. Barnabas Church is located in the N Circus St. which is in walking distance. I came across the Church as I was visiting a bakery. Although the architecture style is Gothic it reminds me of the ideas I am aiming for Surreal and Biophilic.


The interior of the church looks surreal and the use of stained glass as a way to tell the stories of Jesus Christ is unique to this structure. I was able to visit the church when it got dark to see the contrast. Although it is a church it still gave the eerie feeling. Due to the setting of light in the church, it highlighted only few areas during the night time when compared to day time.


The entrance to the church have arches and a small space leading to the interior which gives the element of anticipation.



Exterior of St. Barnabas Church

Interior of St. Barnabas Church in Day-time

Interior of St. Barnabas Church in night-time

History of St. Barnabas Church (Secondary Research)

Sacrament Chapel within St. Barnabas Church

St. Barnabas Church is said to be built between 1841-1844. The Church's interior as well as the exterior was designed by Catholic architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin.


The Chapel within the Church has a completely different architectural style (gothic revival) when compared to the rest of the church. The church has gone through many renovations which has changed the original designs of Pugin; leaving behind few of his blueprint.


With the help of National Lottery Heritage fund the church is going under restoration programme and is also open to visits.



Plan for Week 9 and Week 10

  1. Week 9- Making Observational sketches and including certain changes to the original picture (Trial and error method), trying REMIX and SCAMPER method and starting with the concertina sketchbook.

  2. Week 10- Making a layout (digitally and physically), drawing into the concertina sketchbook and finally choosing for postcard collection.

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