Mixed Media Sketchbook

These are some of the pages from my sketchbook focusing on mixed media. I focused on using maps and so I photocopied a page from another sketchbook where I drew a map and then ripped it up to stick on different pages to create several pieces of work. I used coffee stains at first because I thought it would be darker but in the end I preferred how it looked with tea, and tea has more relations to my concept as my great grandad worked on a tea plantation before moving. Thinking about my final I'm not sure wether I'll use any of these techniques but I do find the tea stains as a background very interesting and will develop that further in a different post.
coffee marks with a map I drew and a ripped page of a book and a scrap of fabric, the map lines were continued with fineliner and coffee ink

strips of pages fromm a book and a map I drew previously and some green acrylic marks also done previously, lines from the map continues throughout the page.

burnt and ripped map with a strip of green mono print on brown paper, with the map lines continues using pens and also textiles

section of a map ripped out and finaliser was used to continue the black lines, and coffee used to continue the red/blue lines. 

light tea stained page, with ripped out book pages and a map i previously drew, I used tea ink to continue some lines and finaliser for others, and glued some tea onto the pages also for texture.
Finally, I did a piece inspired by Nel Ten Woldes work:

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