Week 7 - Hallelujah!

This week has been the best week. I have still been bumbling along up until now, wondering what exactly I wanted to do - or at least, finding research and other things that were truly inspiring and influential for this project - and it has happened!

While looking online and at my dissertations I came across some images that really caught my eye - and instantly ideas on illustration and how this project could develop started to appear from these images.
The pictures were of Victorian and Edwardian people - mostly women, covered in tattoos. As seen in previous posts, I knew I wanted my work to be central to women and tattoos - what a great true starting point is this?!

Below are some of the initial images I found and used as inspiration.

I really liked these images- the completely spoke to me and inspired a whole new wave of ideas over me.  The quality of the images, the ghostly back and white, as well as the youth in the faces and grandeur of the hair and style of the women was all of absolute beauty in my eyes.