May 2012 Module 1 Chpt 3 Texture and Surface Relief Study

 

This section was very much  “what if”.  I enjoyed using various items some of which are perhaps unusual and for manipulating the fabric  tried PVA, polyfilla, paverpol and water soluble that has not been washed out completely.

Here is a selection– all painted with acrylic to give plain finish to provide texture and relief:

 

   

3.1  Clockwise: cut sticky squares; corrugated card;  pleated tissue and scrunched tissue

 

3.2 

Cut out card shapes;  broken eggshells

 

   

3.3.  Dried melon pips covered with tissue paper

 

    

3.4  Onion slices covered with tissue paper

 

    

3.5  Onion skins

 

    

3.6  Clockwise: acrylic emulsion painted onto card then drawn into with the edge of a piece of card;  acrylic emulsion painted on then “pulled up” like rough icing; open weave fabric; scrim strips

 

   

3.7 Using glue gun squeezed onto freezer paper.  If using a hot glue gun this is done onto water.  The shape can be more formal and can be stitched into/over to apply to fabric.

 

 

3.8  Modelight: a commercially available modelling paste that has had moulds pressed into it then painted.  When dry it can be applied to fabric and stitched.

 

 

3.9  Xpandaprint: another commercially available paste similar to modelight in use but is a softer “paint on “ paste which is heated with a hot gun to expand giving a raised texture surface.  This can be stitched and painted.

 

  

3.10  Fingals cave using corrugated card

 

    

3.11  Fingals cave using scrunched, torn and pleated tissue

May 2012 Module 1 chpt 2

The following three pictures are the original drawings or photo used for designs previously sent.

1.  Line drawing of the gateway at Urchfont

 

2.  Photograph of gateway in Bharatpur

 

3.  Photograph and drawing of Church doorway – Tobermoray

 

1a  Trerice House – I took this picture of the front of the house and picked out the doorway lintel shape and shape of the window arches and a close up of one of the door bosses with a  drawing. 

            

Shape cut out of sponge and printed then overprinted with the outline

Positive and negative shapes cut and pasted – could be a starting point for reverse applique or Mola work

 

Joining the outlines and filling the shapes with ideas for machine embroidery

 

2a. I couldn’t resist Traitor’s Gate and added text to tea stained  background with the picture mounted on top; a useful technique I thought for a memory book  or wall hanging.  Also my painting with stencilled text.

            

 

3a  I felt very inspired by FIngal’s Cave, an amazing atmospheric place

      

 

A close up of the rock strata and structure just had to be interpreted into manipulated tissue (fabric)

             

 

For these two collages I printed music and added cut up pictures and printed the picture and geological detail text onto tissue

            

 

4a Books - gateway to learning, the original print and graphite stick drawing       

 

5a I love the shapes  and colours of the doorways I saw in India

         

 

         

 

6a  This is a close up of a section of wall with a design of the positive and negative shapes.

           

MODULE 1 Chapter 2 Use of Sketchbook

1.  Background of torn mulberry paper drawn and printed with shapes taken from drawing of gate at Urchfont

2.  Torn strips of painted tissue with cut out shapes, stencilled and printed.

3.  Curved shapes taken from gate (Urchfont) and stencilled onto colour washed page.

4.  Torn newspapers property pages, glued with gel medium,  a light acrylic wash over top, rubbed with metallic rub-ons to highlight texture, then drawn into and over printed.

5.  Drawn shape from a wrought iron gateway on page coloured with a teabag!  Shape coloured using watersoluble crayons

6.  Monoprinted shape from a gateway rubbed with oil pasted and overpainted

7.  Positive and negative card shapes from doorways covered with tissue paper painted and rubbed with treasure wax.

8.  Disused church doorway drawn, painted, stencilled and stuck to next page with door cut out showing part motif

9.  Shapes from an Indian motif  cut from photograph and collaged on to washed background

10.  Small oblongs of paper with graphite and oil pastel

11. Cut and torn strips of paper over painted to resemble peeling paint on a wall

12. Background washed with Koh i Noor paint over printed with a cut piece of card to resemble bricks