Week 8 - Textiles

Textiles - Task 1

Unfortunately i missed the first lesson of textiles therefore had to catch up within the secon lesson. We were working on collages backgrounds made out of different paper and envelopes. We worked from still life objects, in my case i looked mainly at this metal tap for my first piece. 

 

   

I began by using a brownish ink to paint in the negative space so that the white areas was a similar shape to the object. i then turned my drawing around and worked back in to it with an orange ink to paint a silhouette of my object. I used red pastel to create quick drawings with my opposite hand. I then used graphite to create a more detailed drawing. Masking tape was useful to block out areas where my drawing went wrong or just to give it something extra.

My second drawing was working with the same object but i used different materials. I began by adding in the negative space with a grey ink. I used pastels to draw in part of my object however i think i focused too much on the object as i started to look at tone and shading. Emulsion defined my object as i used it to add in a background effect behind my drawing. I did the same with masking tape which really made my object stand out.

The second object i looked at was some type of shoe.

Although the colours around the shoe were all bright i wanted to swap it around and use a compelte different colour palette. I compelted this piece with my opposite hand, which is why i think i don't like it as much as i really like to have control over my drawings.

For my fourth piece i worked from some sort of dried up fruit. The colours around this object were all blues and greys therefore i decided to work with these colours this time.



I began by blocking areas in with white emulsion and drawing quick continuous line drawings with graphite.

With the object being dark i used a brown pastel to draw another copy of the same object.

I liked the effect and contrast between the blue/grey background i created and the dark drawings therefore created another with orange/brown ink which sunk into the emulsion slightly, leaving a textured look on the surface.

I think this piece looks quite empty and could have been worked into more maybe with more darker drawings as the main thing i can see is the background.