Textures

 

 

I then started to look into textures to create some prints. I took some photographs of textures I found whilst on a walk. I created a dry point print from one of the photographs I took of tree bark.

 

 Im really pleased with how this has turned out. What I love is how much tone you can create with this technique and is a totally different result to a lino print. Although I'm not loving the colour I chose. I am going back to my love of subtle limited colour.

Fabric

Another way of going down the surface pattern route is to look into the fabrics used in the den. This seems like a much easier way of doing this idea and I feel I can do a lot with it.
My first instinct is to do some printing. I feel like printing is one of my strong points and is something I really enjoy doing.

 

So firstly I created a lino print from one piece of fabric used in the den.

 

 

I then layered over another lino cut I did based on another piece of fabric used.

 

 

Over the top of these two prints conbined, I added some of the actual fabric that we used. I hand stitched along the lines of the pattern on the fabric. I then used acrylic paint to paint a part of the pattern. If I was to do this again I would definatly change the colour of the paint to a more subtle purple. 



Surface

Thinking about how to relate this idea towards me, I decided to look into the patterns of the den as I would like to encorprate print into it. to start this idea I did some rubbings from in and around the college to look into textures of surfaces as this is one way I can go down the route of Surface Pattern.

 

Reverb



For this project we started off by having a 6 hour site response day in Bank Quay Gallery. During this time we had to create something from thoughts we had in the building whether it was inspiration from inside or what we could see from outside. Me and some of my peers were in a small room with a whiteboard. We took ownership of this room and left like this was a sort of club, and every club needs a club house. So we went to a charity shop close by and picked up some old curtains and net curtains and then created a den using the office cupboards and planks of wood to suspend the fabric. We are going to be doing a joint project.



 

 

We then recreated the den in the studio at college using a booth. We brought more fabric and used tables and a matress, stapling the fabric to the walls of the booth. We decided that it would be nice to set up and photograph the den in different locations and sit in it whilst planning our projects.

 

 

 

The third den was held in my bedroom.