Chapter 2 - Sheet 2

Image 1 - Sheet 2





Image 2 - White candlewax writing with thick gouache wash





Image 3 - Bleach letters on gouache





Image 4 - Wax ink writing on map page





Image 5 - Edge of card dipped in bleach on gouache





Image 6 - Close up of the map page.  I'm very taken with the glimpses of map and the thread of motorway and A roads!





Image 7 - White wax resist





Image 8 - Thick glue letters with rubbing of water colour felt tips over the top

Chapter 2 - Sheet 1

This is the first sheet of many!

Image 1: Sheet 1





Image 2:  Purple paint on the edge of a piece of card





Image 3:  Piece of card with notches cut into the edge dipped into ink.  I like where the lines cross at the 't's.





Image 4: Top - piece of card dipped in blue ink; Bottom - piece of card with notices cut out (I especially like the 'm')





Image 5: Edge of a piece of card dipped in ink and written until the ink runs out

Chapter 1 - Lettering

This is my collection of lettering for chapter 1.  I found this quite fun but did limit myself limit to 2 A3 pages so that I would stop!

Image 1:  Letter sheet - I had a lot of fun with these.  I dusted off old stamps, found a jar of foam letters on my shelf (no idea when I bought these!) and then did a wax crayon rubbing of the foam letters.





Image 2: Rubber Stamps - The cutest smallest little stamp sets.




Image 3: Foam Letters

 

 

Image 4: Wax crayon rubbing of foam letters

 

Image 5: Sheet 2 - More rubber stamps, printed text and letter cuttings from magazines.




Image 6: Computer printed text - isn't it gorgeous!




Image 7: Collection - Because everyone keeps a box of cut up letters just in case they need them right?!

Chapter 1 - Media

For a while I was very into mixed media collage and collected quite a few of the items needed for this module - old newspapers, packaging, a million postage stamps (maybe slightly exaggerated), book pages and so on.  I found pulling this part of chapter 1 together very easy and quite enjoyable indeed.

Image 1 - Media spread:

Image 2 - Tickets form Paignton Pier:



Image 3 - Envelope inners:



Image 4 - Parcel string, puzzle page, playing cards:



Image 5 - Postage stamps and vegetable brochure page - possible colour suggestions:



Image 6 - Packaging from Debenhams online:



Image 7 - Music manuscript and dressmakers pattern:




Image 8 - Tube map and bubble wrap:



Image 9 - Envelope with window, franking label and corrugated card from delivery box:

Resolved Piece - further information

I learnt a very valuable lesson yesterday - that unless I actually share all of my work and give further explanations I can expect lots of questions which have answers that I could have given in advance!  I didn't really demonstrate that I did much preparation work for my resolved piece.  I did do quite a few sketches in a book (I uploaded the pics to flickr but forgot to add them into my blog entries!  Dur!).  In my design sketches I played around with ideas - firstly for a fascinator and then for a floral brooch.  In the end I combined the ideas.

Image 1 - Page of design doodles:




Image 2 - Page of design doodles with felt roving, ideas for threads to use and a mock-up felt petal to see what I needed to do to create a 3d shape to it:

 

 Sian has posed a couple of questions for me to consider.

1) I commented that I think the flower could have benefited from having a stem and being slightly raised - why didn't I act on that at the time and make it so?  When I tried it out on my head (with flat hair!) it was fine - the flower sat comfortably.  When I tried it on my model after I finished she had more of a lift to her hair so the band sat lower 'in' her hair.  I hadn't considered how hair differed on people before (although it seems obvious now!)

2) I didn't make a mock up of my design before I went ahead and cracked on with it (I did try things out as I went along and did spend a lot of time cutting out petals from paper and adjusting them etc to get to the point I really wanted e.g. number of petals, the shape, the size - I just didn't document that part or, indeed, explain this in my post) - I agree that I should have created a complete mock-up instead of working along with my general idea.  This is something I recognise the benefit of and will take on board for the next module. 

3) The finish of the petals is a lot looser than the wrapped-round edges on the resolved sample.  I think this adds a certain delicacy to the flower visually but with greater embellishment the edges would have been crisper as the petals would have been denser (and thinner).  I backed the petals with another sturdy felt to give them more strength but I do wonder about the practical nature of the headpiece and whether the petals themselves would withstand multiple times of several hours of wearing.

Now onto Module 4!