creativepascale: Diploma Chapter 4 Shape and Pattern Study 2

I chose the iron beam as shape to experiment with. I changed the proportions to make it look more interesting. However a bit further in this Chapter I realized that the design was still to square and that a more organic one would open up more possibilities .

For this design exercise I also started by painting the papers I would use. The inspiration for these were my textures, the plates were used to make rubbings with wax crayons or served as inspiration. Using my big Gelli plate enabled me to achieve the textured backgrounds on the papers as well as the worn look of the industrial site.

One of the techniques used was drawing patterns onto a piece of paper with wax crayons (Pentel) these formed a kind of resist on the plate and were printed with a different paint.

For another background I used baby powder as a resist . It would be nice if I could reproduce the same on fabric but some of the effects can only be reached by using acrylic paints which leave a (plastic) shine on the fabric.

I tried to copy the papers and keep the originals for a later stage but wasn't happy with the results and they didn't translate the real beauty of the papers. So I used mainly the originals.

When doing the exercises in this Chapter the magic really happened when both the shapes and the backgrounds were done using the painted papers.

I certainly could have continued to go on designing even more, but as always at some stage you have to decide when to stop and move on. More ideas might pop up in the future.

2 Sample 1 pressed onto small gelli plate rolled over with white acrylic pain which caused the 1st layer to smear, then printed

Shape slightly changed, still to square

Rubbing over sample 5 to reveal the outline, shapes filled with inktense blocks

Shape placed on coloured background, rectangle cut out and replaced, colours of background changed

void rectangle covered from the back with painted paper

11 Shape glued to coloured background divided in 4 with a contrasting narrow strip of paper in a cruciform

This looks more like a wrapped present, but isolates parts of the shapes that could lead to a different design

Shape with "M" like Minette written over it

This sample would probably look more interesting if the background paper wasn't white

Shape placed on contrasting background, pleated lengthwise, shape outline drawn over the resulting shape got filles with stripes. This creates like a distorted shape, a kind of halo or shadow of the main shape

The text to the following picture is the explanation that goes with 16 a.

16a

I then simplified the shape with the Adobe Capture App on my cell phone before scanning it into the Silhouette program. The designer edition allows you to rotate it around a specific shape varying the overlapping and the number of shapes used. You can fill the shapes with more or less solid colours but in the following samples I prefered to colour them myself before gluieing onto a pieced background.