more Chapter 11

more relief textures to play with

a - twisted strips glued in formation

b - manipulated and layered tissue

c - different view of b

d - window experiments

Stage 2

Not having any clear picture of where I'm going, I haven't settled on a colour scheme yet - keeping my options open.

The sheets 1 - 4  are the flat relief papers I divided according to some of my drawings. 

Sheet 1 - papers torn to make a rolling landscape and a meandering one.

Sheet 2  - a watery icicle division cut rather than torn for clean edges and torn divisions as looking through the hedge branches.

Sheet 3 - selections of papers used with overlapping - a leafy one and Fibonacci squares piled from largest to smallest.

Sheet 4 - an abstract using quite exciting squares and an icicle manipulation on three levels. 

These are 3D constructions from my digital papers.

The blue one has a dark base layer with lighter sides and a window cutout in the top layer.  The height is from stacked card squares - could translate with stacked vilene squares with textured edges. It is influenced by the research photo of the hedge which has a frame of thorny twigs looking through to a hollow of meshed twigs.

The construction forming triangles has one rectangle  and one square which would be heavily textured and three squares with frames and transparent windows with some cording? tucking? which still allows views through to the textured areas.  Unfortunately. the tracing paper is not very see- through.  This is also influenced by the hedge picture which is very complex and this construction reflects that complexity.  I took a series of pictures of this bit of hedge, getting closer and closer each time to let it reveal its secrets slowly. The construction would need to be viewed from several angles also to give up its secrets.

I'm intrigued by both of these so  might sample for them both.

Some of the flat designs would make great fabric postcards.

my furry friends

I did a pumpkin seed relief texture sheet and left it out overnight to dry on the table.  When I collated the sheets for blogging I couldn't find it any where.

I just found it under the computer table - without a single pumpkin seed - the mouse had eaten every one as well as the flour and water paste backing.

Chapter 11 - stage 1 - decorated papers and subdividing images

I was going to work in white, but my bleaching of 2 different black papers produced yellows and browny pinks so I might go with a range of natural shades from very light to very dark.  I really like the bluey greens in the third sheet too - decisions, decisions.

I tried a range of printing and bleaching using cocktail sticks, cotton tips, feathers, sponge shapes, and an almost empty reel of tatting cotton with an interesting circular texture.  Some of the papers were first patterned with a white wax crayon. Some of the white papers were coloured with tea and some printing was done with tea. This was quite hard to get a clean image - too wet and it just ran, too dry and no marks. Some of the bleached papers were over-bleached with a second method. 

The relief papers are only for ideas as they will not be amenable to cutting up! Seeds are scattered all over as it is. The softer samples are made with flour and water paste and I used this t hold the rice and beans and seeds. I rubbed the samples with a graphite stick to see what textures would result.

Finally, I chose a selection of my digital manipulations as they had some gorgeous textures.

I t was hard to settle on a few photographs because there were so many delicious ones to choose from and I'd had such a good time in Adobe creating all sorts of different images.

I chose the icicle, hedge and leaf series to use for the designing exercise. Some divisions are suggested by the original photo, some by the digital manipulation and some abstract. Some were drawn with the idea of 3-D interpretations.