Experimental Illustration Summer 2025
Week 1: DIY Portfolio
Creating our own portfolio by making abstract marks with ink on paper, then assembling and binding the paper into a useable portfolio. Then imagining pictures and shapes in the ink marks and drawing them.
Ink, paper, binding string, red fineliner.
Week 2: Silhouette
Stop motion animation with paper silhouette puppet focusing on capturing emotion and movement through simple shapes and silhouette.
Traditional and digital media, paper, tape.
Week 4: Alien Plants
Series of 3 plants each representing a season and bearing fruit of the corresponding season. Named Primavera Margarita (The Jewel of Spring), Aestas Astermelo (Flowering Melon), and Munificentia Autumnalis (Ceres’s Messis).
Drawn digitally.
Week 5: Botanical Gardens and Mini Herbarium
Visiting the Botanischer Garten in Berlin and drawing plants from observation. Using our plant studies- we then created our own matchbox herbarium with the theme of plants in mind.
Coloured pencil, gouache paint, handmade paper matchbox, and various natural items.
Week 6: Deutches Tecknikmuseum.
Various sketches of an oktant, tellurium, ship, and a plane propeller motor.
Brown fineliner and yellow Ecoline brush marker.
Week 7: Machine
Combining machine parts to create an original machine with a purpose. Exploring the concepts of animal-like machines.
Red pencil, red fineliner, brown fineliner, yellow Ecoline brush marker.
Week 8: Street View
Adding our own illustration to an already existing place. We searched for images via Google Maps, then printed the images and drew on top of them.
Gouache painting on a printed photograph.
Week 9: Surreal Landscape
Using collage techniques to create a surreal landscape. Featuring a oversized hybrid fox family surrounded by large mushrooms.
Mixed media, paper, glue, and coffee.
Weeks 10 and 11: Tetra Pack Carving
Recycling old cartons and carving into the tetra pack material inside creates an interesting method of intaglio printing. The theme was bestiary so the design features a hare and fox.
Tetra-pack and printing ink.
Week 14: Gum Hearts and Black Hands
Printing workshop where we reused old bicycle tires to cut stamps and print on fabric and paper.
Bicycle tires, wood blocks, printing ink.
Final Project: Our World
Create a series of three motifs and replicate them on three different size formats; A2, postcard, and matchbox. I continued exploring my forest-based world full of strange animals, creatures, and the vast unknown of the woods.
A2: mixed media, gouache, pencils, and chalk pastels. Postcard: brown fineliner and brown water-soluble pencil. Matchbox: linocut and brown printing ink.
Statement of Authorship
By signing this document, I confirm that I am the sole creator of this presented portfolio.
Where the work of others has been referenced, this is acknowledged in the captions. All referential uses of sources have been specifically indicated as well.
This portfolio has not been submitted for another module exam. It has not been submitted as an assignment during my studies before, nor has it been published.
Caitlin Ashley Caudle
BS25 Foundation Project 02 Illu: Experimental Illustration 2nd Semester
Summer Semester 2025
21.07.25 Berlin
Student ID: 83673068