Sunday 12 May 2013

Chapter 2

Last weekend I decided to jump forward to section 2b so that I could use the patterned papers made in part 2a.  So I painted some papers with green and red then when they were dry I did a spot of mono printing using a mix of gouache and gesso.
Image 1 – some of the papers drying on the floor:
Monoprinting on papers
Image 2 – A close of up one of my favourite papers:
Mono 3 close-up
Image 3 – I tried doing two mono prints over each other:
Mono 4
Image 4 – I rather like these mono prints on book pages:
Mono 7
Unfortunately I couldn’t do these on an A4 pages as the glass pane I usually use for this kind of thing seems to have vanished.  Where to is anyone’s guess but I was keen to get cracking so I used the nearest biggest picture frame I could find (which happened to be, um, small.
Moving on to the spiral sheets.
Image 5 – I found cutting spirals from card very therapeutic!:
Spirals 1
Image 6 – Individual spirals cut out of card and grouped together.  I deliberately used red on pink because it’s one of my favourite things!:
Spirals 2
Image 7 – The first spiral sheet – basic spirals with some overlapping:
Spirals 3
Image 8 -  I particularly liked the negative space left by the spirals I’d cut out of red card (on the left):
Spirals 4
Image 9 – A strip of paper wound around a pair of scissors and then squished:
Spirals 5
Image 9 – A mix of spirals – I like the delicate spiral formed on the bottom left which is taken from a ceramic tile of a rose:
Spirals 6
Next up were the fun 3d experiments.
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Spirals One b
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Spirals One c
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Spirals One f
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Spirals One d
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Spirals One e
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Spirals Three b
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Spirals Three a
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Spirals Two a
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Spirals Two c
I really enjoyed playing with the corrugated cardboard and I’d like to explore some more 3d spirals/swirls using inspiration from the chandelier images in my collection but I will come back to that perhaps when I’m doing my accessory later in the module.

Wednesday 1 May 2013

Module 3 Chapter 1 – Spiral Source Images

Well hurrah to module three!  Colour at last!  This module is about spirals and movement.  Chapter one is all about collecting images of spirals so I tipped out my large box of collected images.  My family think I’m a bit crackers – if I see an interesting image in a magazine, newspaper or on a leaflet or napkin I stash it away in this wicker picnic box.  “You should throw that rubbish away you know” says my father.  Gosh no, it’s a treasure trove!
So after having a root around here’s what I came up with!
Image 1: A collection of loose images – do excuse the glare of the flash!
Module 3 Chapter 1
Image 2:  Lovely shapes within a tower construction:
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Image 3: Decorative ironwork in Exeter:
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Image 4: The typical shell shape seen in other places such as candle holders and the icing on a muffin:
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Image 5: Spirals around uprights:
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Image 6:  A very lovely seahorse:
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Image 7: I particularly like the texture on the postcard on the Jenny Beavan postcard:
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Image 8:  Lots of lovely chandeliers:
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Image 9: Images from a photo album on newscientist.com “Nanobristles twist to hold particles”.  These provide lots of ideas for 3d constructions:
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Image 10: Two postcards with spirals in the imagery:
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I took a look through a sketchbook I use for doodling zentangle patterns and found a few images were relevant.
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