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:

Image 2 – A close of up one of my favourite papers:

Image 3 – I tried doing two mono prints over each other:

Image 4 – I rather like these mono prints on book pages:

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!:

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!:

Image 7 – The first spiral sheet – basic spirals with some overlapping:

Image 8 -  I particularly liked the negative space left by the spirals I’d cut out of red card (on the left):

Image 9 – A strip of paper wound around a pair of scissors and then squished:

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:

Next up were the fun 3d experiments.
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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.