Diploma Module 1 Chapter 11 - Bold Design Development - Option D

STAGE ONE

Using various media, large, bold marks were made relating to gulls, specifically as an interpretation of Image 239.  Dimensions are given so you know the size.

Image 291 - 28cmWx25cmH

Permanent ink markers

Image 292 - 28cmWx25cmH
Sponged paper, Black Carbon and Brown Artgraf from Art Van Go (these are glorious to use) and Inktense Block.

Image 293 - 28cmWx26cmH
Sponged paper, Inktense Blocks and Koh-I-Noor Water Soluble Wax Aquarells.

Image 294 - A4
Sponged Dark Blue Tiziano Paper with Koh-I-Noor Water Soluble Wax Aquarells, dipped in water before using.

Image 295 - A4
Dark Blue Tiziano Paper and thin bleach applied with 10mm baker's brush.

Image 296 - 50cmWx35cmH
Black tissue paper and thin bleach applied with pliable bramble stem with fraying ends.

Image 297 - 62cmWx56cmH
Poster paint applied with 50mm sponge brush

Image 298 - 66cmWx56cmH
Poster paint applied with 25mm sponge brush

And now for something completely different, an interpretation of Image 134.
Image 299 - 23cmWx24cmH
PITT artist pens

STAGE 2

I selected small areas from various drawings and made new design compositions.

Designs from Image 292

Image 300 - 20cmWx18cmH
Selected and rotated sections

Image 301 - 18cmWx20cmH
Image 300 rotated 90degrees right

Image 302 - 48cmWx18.5cmH

Horizontal repeat pattern

Image 303 18.5cmWx48cmH
Image 302 rotated 90degrees left - less successful

Image 304

Digital, vertical repeat of pattern - more successful than Image 303

Image 305

Original image with vertical overlaid strips - gives sense of movement

Image 306 - 15cmWx29cmH
Section of image overlaid with shapes cut from an Invert Adjustment in Photoshop Elements.
Details added with acrylic paint in sympathy with design.

Image 307 - 16cmWx29cmH
Background printed from Invert Adjustment of image and overlaid with diagonal strips from original image. Details added with acrylic paint in sympathy with design.

I didn't do any additional monoprinting in this section as I had already covered this in previous chapters.  However I did take sections from Image 141 (Images 308 - 312) and produced designs from these (Images 313 and 314).

Diploma Module 1 - Add-ons

This chapter includes miscellaneous add-ons to other chapters.

Stitch resist gulls (Chapter 6 - Colouring of Materials)

The outline of gulls drawn on an old linen sheet was

• overstitched on the gull on the left 
• gathered on the two gulls to the right.

This was dyed with procion dyes (10 tsp of made-up dye, 100ml soda solution, 100ml salt solution and 250ml water - all made up as per chapter 6) and left for 7 hours.  Both back and front are shown as I prefer the marks made on the back as the overstitching gave more interesting marks.  You also might be able to see I put a hole in the fabric as my gathers were extremely tight and very difficult to remove...but it was an old sheet!

Stitch Samples

Development of Image 283 twined wing with shadows

Image 286 - HDR enhanced image using HDR Max App on smartphone.

Image 287 - HDR enhanced photo inkjet printed onto Luradur.  (This has yet to be developed.)

Image 288 - HDR inkjet image coated with acrylic wax and stitched using couching and needleweaving. 

Stitch Sample

The sample shown in Images 289/90 is on paraffin-waxed calico.  The gulls were scratched into the wax and then the piece was inked with Quink Ink and wiped so that all that remained was the ink in the recesses of the wax (rather like etching).  The stitching is in fine cotton covered wire and linen to give an impression of birds in flight...(not sure about this).