Before the Christmas holidays I took part in a colour excercise during the drawing workshops. This really was a turning point for my project as I was only working in black and white. I have now really established my colour palette and I am so pleased with the direction my work seems to be going.
I am currently enrolled onto the Hand Processes workshop. This started off quite slow. I was dry on ideas and as I had not established the colours that I would like to work with yet, my work seemed very bland and basic. However, the drawing workshop opened up the creative side of my brain. Ideas flowing and paint by my side the pages of my book seemed to fill up with exciting drawings.
I am now working on samples that reflect the drawings in my sketchbook. I like the idea of the branches in my drawing being tangled, so this has influenced these samples:
These first two samples are various threads and strips of fabric knotted and tangled together onto a frame, a frame that I have constructed out of wooden skewars. Although I like the first one, I wanted a sample that was a bit more over the top, so I created a second piece to show this. I enjoyed making these samples so much that I would consider creating these on a bigger scale, maybe on an actual wooden frame.
Although I had already created two samples that explore the tangled nature of the branches on the trees, I want a flat pice on fabric. I used a very light weight netted fabric, which you can see better on the second photograph. I liked the idea of the transparancy between the branches. I could take this further by using a dissolvable fabric to work on.
I have also just been looking at the drawings as a visual idea to work with. I have created a few samples working with this too. I used actual twigs in these samples, I found this to be quite visually effective, and as a future idea I could include twigs in my next workshop (intermediate weave):
I am really excited and inspired by my brief at the moment and I am genuinely excited to develop it further in the second half of the unit.
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