Recap on one design process so far

 

It is interesting going back and looking at the journey in these photos all together.

 

 

 

 

where to next?

 

 



Playing with background

 

This style of stitching is very familiar for me to do. Coloured silk strips overlaid with organza and secured and textured with running stitch. The running stitch is worked at 90' to the direction you want the ripples to run. In the real piece, the stitches don't stand out as much as the ripples.

 



... and going forward again

 

well, forwards, backwards, sideways, I'm going somewhere! Rich and varied textures

 

 

 



Lost my way

 

There are many times that things are going along so well, and then for no apparent reason, the wheels fall off the apple cart. What to do next? So I got out the Kitchen Sink

 

Doileys and lace (covered with organza because I want to create layers, not appealing to me at the moment tho')

 

 

Ledger pictures and fabrics

 

and because I didn't have enough fabrics, I decided to make some more, with various soluble and sticky fabrics, and lots of little chopped up bits and pieces, and a bit of embellishing machine as well.

 

 

They are not all finished yet, but maybe inspiration will come ...

 

 



Ledger Page 15

Here is my first completed stitched ledger page - a series of samples for shell stitching. Its a very neat way to try things out in stitch without committing to a huge piece.

 

 

 

Detail of the right hand page (notes on the left - above - on tracing paper will be overlayed on this page and will be able to be flipped up out of the way as necessary). Mainly French knots and couching, on fabrics, with and without organza overlay.

 

 

 



starting to stitch

 

Our lovely teacher has (finally) allowed us to start stitching!!! Thank you Karen!!! (this is week 4)

 

 



Pages from my ledger

As I sketch and experiment for my online class with Karen Ruane we are encouraged to take photos of our work and post them on our (private) flickr group - so that Karen can comment and the other class members can see what we are up to (hence all my pictures).

 

Another advantage of all this photography is that I can then print the photos and work on them some more - I have made use of tracing paper extensively to experiment with design over another image. I am also using tracing paper to write my comments and thoughts on - that way I have my "wordy" record of process etc in the same place as the actual sampling work, but my messy writing isn't detracting from the pages (phew - does that make sense?).

 



just because I like it

sometimes I just cant work out how to rotate these photos, so you'll just have to turn your computer around. I just think this looks interesting - tracing paper over painted background.

 



comparing backgrounds

 

I made a new collage background - inspired by some others members of the Alchemy class who have been working with horizontal layers. For my purposes, the horizontal effect is  referencing the waves and the layers of the landscape receding into the back ground.

 

 This one gives me the feeling of a sunny day, although I don't think I'll need the white outlining here. I like this combination.

 

 

 

 

I have laid a piece of tracing paper over the dark background, and it suggests a dark, rainy, brooding day. Quite a contrast to the sunny day. I like this one too.

 

Further drawing and experimenting

Here you can see my source picture (looking down onto the grass, the exposed roots of the tea-tree, and the water of Lake Weyba) and then I added random colours to some of the shell designs

 

 

 

 

Design falling out of the shells

 

 

Very stylized shell design inside the shell



More Layering

 

I have been doing lots of drawing and layering, trying to find designs and ideas from my shells

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Layering up

3 layers of the leaf litter, quite excited about this one

 

colouring makes a difference

I have posted this page before

 

 

and then I applied more thought and finesse to the colouring

 



Pandanus Fruit

Sketch of Pandanus Fruit

 

 

The leaf litter on the ground around the fruit above

 

 

Applying patterns to the fruit shapes, photocopy of collage used as overlay for pandanus patterns

 



White Outlines

I like the way the white outlining has worked, and the blue/green colour combinations are looking good



 

 

Probably a little less spectactular

 

 



I have decided to try to use my strange collage - decorated with shell stencils

 

 

Shells on tracing paper & cut out

 

 

added some colour