Ideas for development tomorrow

I have decided to create a list of different ideas I could work on when developing my practice. I am having difficulty staying focused on what I want to create so a rough plan of ideas is my best way of organising my thoughts.

My main ideas are to work on both combining imagery and enhancing the organic features of my photography. The two areas I will focus on are collage and creating additional material features. I need to keep my ideas simplistic for now so that I can focus on one thing at a time although there is the temptation to try everything at once - this is not the most effective method of experimentation, it often leads to confusion!

Firstly I will take the photographs of the organisms - animals/reptiles/insects/fish. (Hopefully all these organisms will be available to photograph tomorrow as I only want to do one session at the centre so that I can begin to work on the above ideas straight away).

Secondly I plan to work on the material features I have available to me - wire, acetate fragments, thread, paint etc. I want to work on my larger prints and get some of those pieces constructed and the features enhanced so that I can have a larger collection of pieces that I have adding material features to (I have a lot of smaller versions/practice piece at the moment).

Thirdly I want to work on printing onto different materials - I have plenty of different textured sheets that I can print on, including acetate sheets. I want to see the different effects that can be created when printing onto different surfaces. My intention is to enhance organic features of the images by printing onto textured/coloured/already printed onto/altered surfaces.

Finally I want to look at creating landscape collages using photographs of close-up imagery, fragments of patterns, interesting tones changes and natural scene photography. I have been working on creating collage pieces but I have found it increasingly difficult to construct pieces both interesting aesthetically and coninciding with the themes of my work. I believe it is because I am putting too much pressure on myself to form particular things e.g. trying too hard to focus on the organic side of my work rather than just experimenting with the different materials I can use. I think if I just create mixtures of imagery that comes naturally to me (which I have looked at in my previous posts) then the collages will form more effectively and successfully.

Overall these are just points to consider  - I will look at all of these at some point throughout in my project - but these are ideas to work from tomorrow so that I am not at a lost or suffering from a creative block!!!