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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.