My starting point was the theme of 'taste' for a new series of work on Senses. I had in my head the idea of oranges and lemons and the nursery rhyme to go with it. However as you will see from the photos it developed into a more abstract form.
I started with mark making - first trying a rubbing with a commercial stencil.
I moved on to making marks with various circular objects.
And then tried words with various tools. I love drippage.
I cut some of the pieces up very small to make mini collages.
I played with the bits left over after I'd cut circles out. I loved the circular mark at the bottom of this page which reminded me of the spray from peeling an orange. I had this made into thermofax screens with 3 different sizes of the image.
I joined four A3 sheets of black card together and glued all the bits down - the circles and the bits from round the circles.
I took numerous photos of sections of the above using grey 'L' shapes. I've just put one photo here to represent the 12 I took.
I used my new thermofax screens over the top of the large sheet.
Then I took the sheets apart and worked on the individual A3 sheets.
I looked at segments.
I played again with the 'L' shapes
The next 4 photos show the sequence of auditioning and the final cut.
Here are some of the other pieces I made. Each of them went through the auditioning process and the cutting process before being pinned to the wall.
And then more mark making
And my final gallery displaying my 5 days of work.
In the last hour I was there I took the original sheets of mark making and tore them up and glued each of 2 pieces of paper together to make a book. I'll do another blog post on that soon.
I don't know whether any of these ideas will make into a textile piece. I don't think it matters really - I just had a happy creative time and that's what matters.
Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice
Wow, what a productive week, thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWhat a joyful process and set of images. Must book myself onto this course at some stage - time spent at Committed toCloth is always pleasurable isn't it. Glad you had such fun and came away with so much inspiration.
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