Beautiful vs Ugly

After visiting the two archives this week, I have descovered the two sides to Fairground, there's the cheerful side and then the ugly side. Blackpool Pleasure Beach allows people an escape from reality, it frees the mind and makes more room for entertainment and fun. There's sweets, and colourful lights everywhere.

 Belle Vue at the start was a magical place,  the escape from reality after the war, seeing live animals. However, dig deeper and the problems behind it were enormous. Belle Vue could be a dark place. It's background is disturbing, the animals and cheerful fairground rides are a front for the disturbing reality of the lack of animal welfare, it was also a concern of the disregard for public health and safety. 

In conclusion, although this project is based on the blog, I have an ongoing sketchbook. So far my drawings have been based on the photographs taken in Blackpool Pleasure Beach, however, I have taken the dark side of Belle View and applied this, using 'Arsenic Green' from Belle View and the blue Pleasure Beach logo and prepared the pages in my sketchbook to make further drawings and patterns with the auora happiness and typical Fairground feelings.