The beauty of ink work and watercolours is something that I would very much like to work with. I want to create a series of canvas works using a mixture of different media. These would include photography, ink, watercolours, rice paper collaging and turps rubbing.
I am thinking of taking some landscape photos to use as the background of my pieces of work and perhaps fading them a bit before putting them on canvas so that my top layer will be the main focus. I have been looking at the swallow's flying formation and their beautiful and precise way of moving together would create a beautiful layer on my work if I dotted one of their various flying patterns across the landscape.
Over this, turps rubbing a different colourful bird (but in black and white for turps rubbing), onto each canvas. Then using rice and tissue paper I could create the outline and shape of the bird.I found on Elis Cooke's blog the use of rice paper to create texture before applying water colours.
"I started collaging tissue and rice paper onto the canvas support. While it is still wet I like to introduce the paint [ink, watercolours] so it creeps into the papers creating cool mixtures and textures. Then i will let that dry and have an interesting surface to work on..."
I would then use a similar technique to Cooke's and would work water colours into the paper letting it seep into each other and using darker inks to create lines letting it run down the canvas. Then working back into it with watercolour pencils and gesso. (See art diary)
Here are some pictures from Cooke's blog: 
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