Project 4 – Review

Did you manage to ‘make space move?’

I think I managed to ‘make space move’ yes. I understand the idea of taking away the same amount of space but in different ways to make the same look like more or less.

What are your thoughts about the drawings you did in Stage 3?

I liked my drawings from Stage 3. I think I showed a good set of progressive pieces. My only critique is that it would have been nice to do more than one but my time wouldn’t permit.

Were you able to use your drawings successfully as a basis for further work? Are there any other things you would like to try?

I think I was able to choose a good selection of drawings to develop. I liked my selection and think I developed them well. I would have liked to try many other ways of developing such as with stitch or unusual fabrics and things but I think my confidence won’t yet allowed to take ‘abstract’ and ‘unusual’ risks but that will come I am sure.

Now that you have a good working method, do you feel confident that you can carry on working in this way independently?

I feel that I trust myself a little more now, and my creative decisions, to allow me to start developing my drawings. I just need to focus a little more and give myself enough time to try out different ways of expression and using different mediums.

 

Project 4 – Stage 4 – Developing Design Ideas

Stage 3 asked me to select some drawings from my previous work that could be developed.

I chose to develop 2 drawing that have always been in the back of my mind for developing further. A picture of trees in the sunset and from ahoto I took of some autum leaves poking through a green gate.

 

To make this I cut drew the tree designs onto black paper and used a craft knife to cut out the areas I wanted the back ground to show through. I used chalk pastels to create the sunset look as they are easy to blend and mini pulsate. Once I was happy with the back ground I stuck the tree detail on top. I love this personally, I like the blend of colours in the background and how spooky the trees look. It reminds me of Halloween or something. Looking back now though I wish I had cut it out so it was framed in a way or at least so the excess colour wasn’t surrounding it which I think makes it look a little unfinished.

To make this I decided to use brown paper and, using a sping, paint it orange and yellow to make it look like autumn leaves. I thing cut out the leaves and crinkled them up to a get a bit of texture. I thing layered them and introduced the green paper to act as the green bars of the gate from the original picture. Again I really quite like this. I think I have managed to get the textures very well and the colours make them almost look real. If I was to develop it further I would try and get the rusting detail on the bars.

Project 4 – Stage 2 – Looking for shapes and drawing

Here I was asked to pick a picture from my visual collection and pick certain areas that have interesting shapes. I was torn between two different pictures.

 

Exercise 1  

I chose one of the second pictures to work from for exercise 1 which asked me to look at surface textures, colours and shapes.

 

I have never really drawn in this way before, looking at each different element and picking out only those features. It was a very interesting way to draw really and I did enjoy trying something different.

Exercise 2 & 3

I didn’t complete this exercise as I wasn’t sure what it was asking me to do. Which is a shame. I really didn’t understand or know how to draw what it was asking me to draw. With the image I took being mostly lines and shapes it would hVe been difficult to interpret it without just copying so I was a bit confused about how to approach this exercise use.

Exercise 4

This exercise asked me to do the same but with a real life object. This one I found a lot easier. I started with the three drawings, one of shapes, one of textures and one of colours.

 

I then moved on to do the focused drawing using different mediums dry, wet and collage. I tried to focus on the shapes and colours as these are the main things I like about the object I picked to work from.

 

 I really like how these turned out. Especially the collage. I used a mix of paper, card, ribbon and wire to try and get the colours, and textures correct. I really enjoyed this exercise and feel that I have made some good representations of the orginal object I was working from which was my button bouquet.

Project 4 -Stage 1 – Developing Desing Ideas

Stage 1 – Introduction and Preparation

   

This exercise asked me to look at using space. I was asked to use black squares to manipulate the area of a square to get different uses of space. I quite enjoyed the experimentation of this exercise, how using the same one square in the centre vs the outer area of the square can make what is the same area space seem like less of more. I did find this really interesting.