Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Module 1 Chapter 13 Study of Contemporary Textile Artists
I have chosen two basket makers to study since many support structures in the garden are 3D and there are many examples of plant supports with elements of weaving to be found, especially in the kitchen gardens of large estates, There is also the element of plant stems weaving their way around supports either naturally or by the human hand. I am interested in investigating basketry techniques for use in embroidery.
Shuna Rendel
“I like following the path a line takes. I’m a very impatient person – perhaps that’s what keeps me going, following the path”
This quotation from an interview by Susie Johns for Embroidery Magazine May 2003, provides an insight into the work of Shuna Rendel. She creates beautiful structures that you want to pick up and manipulate like you would a slinky toy. A key element to her work is making flexible structures from rigid materials such as cane, She uses the netting and linking techniques to achieve this.
Her work is a product of a background of studying sculpture at St Martins, a creative textiles C&G course at the London College of Furniture and contact with a basketry course at the same college.
Shuna has been a member of the Sixty Two Group since 1993 and has exhibited with the group. She also teaches.
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Stella Harding
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Module 1 Chapter 12 Towards An Embroidered Item
I used the hollow outline design method.
Stage 1 - Choose background
I use pearlised taffeta as a background fabric and bonded it on to vilene.
Stage 2 - Colour background
I used transfer dyes to colour the background fabric. (12.1)
12.3
12.4
Stage 4 - Cut into separate shapes
Shapes were drawn on to the back of the fabric and the lines were machine stitched (12.5.) The shapes were then cut out. (12.6)
12.5
12.6
Stage 5 - Arrangement of shapes into compositions
12.7
12.13
Monday, 2 July 2018
Module 1 Chapter 9 Explore With Abstracted Fragments
Overview
In this chapter a small section is taken from a source and developed into a design.
Select a Fragment
I looked for likely designs from my sketchbook, the solid shape exercise and the hollow line exercise. I drew the designs in 4x7cm rectangles.
8.1 Simple abstracts from previous design work.
I chose a very simple design based on the joints of a bamboo cane.
8.2 My chosen abstracted fragment.
I identified these words which I associated with bamboo.- Slender
- Thin
- Shiny
- Smooth
- Jointed
- Tubular
- Straight (ish)
- Strong
- Hollow
- Scarred
- Layered
- Linear
- Spikey
These designs were made by making copies of the basic design on tracing paper and then overlaying them. The word list above was used to as inspiration to add other elements to the designs.
8.3 Developing the design on tracing paper.
8.4 Developing the design on tracing paper.
I chose this design to develop further. I was mindful that the design might look like a postmark!
8.5 Chosen design
I used various photo manipulation apps on my iPad to develop the design.
8.6 PS Express app.
8.7 Superphoto app Circle warp option
8.8 Superphoto app Neon option
8.9 Superphoto app Neon option
8.10 Superphoto app Colorify/Jet option
8.11 Adobe Photoshop fix app. Liquify option applied to 8.10
8.12 Two photos stitched together to make it long and thin.
8.13 Repix app. Edge and Bokeh tools
I also developed the design using coloured papers, experimenting with various colour combinations.
8.14 Neutral (brown) as dominant colour, contrast this with 8.15.
8.15 Neutral (brown) with green as dominant colour
8.16 Equal anount of green and brown.
8.17 Two colours mostly blue to be contrasted with 8.18 mainly yellow with blue
8.18 Mainly yellow with blue
8.17 Cool colours.
8.18 Light colours with small area of dark.
8.19 Dark colours with small area of light.
8.20 Analagous colours.
The next stage was to produce designs using texture and colour.
8.21 Glue gun, tissue paper, paint and metallic highlighter.
8.22 Layers built up using cardboard and foam board.
8.23 String glued to backing and painted.
8.24 String glued to backing and covered by tissue paper with unravelled sisal string centre.