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Mood Board. 

My mood board for the start of the project, based on jewellery.

Drawing

-Artist Influences - Egon Schiele

Egon Schieles way of drawing really influenced my work. 

I am used to drawing in a precise heavily detailed way. By looking into his work and his fast but effective drawings, I wanted to develop this way of drawing in my work. I decided to use photographs of my jewellery, and this fast way of drawing to create small images, of the jewellery. This technique doesnt only give you a new more meaningful image it helped to push me away from strict ways of working. 

 

Development

Using techniques from Egon Schiele's work, I drew certain images from the jewellery collection using fineliner, quink and water colours. I also added the two stripes of colour at the sides of the page to show examples of all the different colours entailed in the real photographs.

Watches 

Necklaces- Simple line drawings using a 0.05 fineliner and a quick carefree way of drawing.

 This image is a drawing done again using water colour  I wanted to try and recreate the image of the purple diamond, however I found once again by using a less strict way of drawing I got a much more interesting image. I firstly did the left hand drawing, however I didn't enjoy painting this as I found myself struggling to get a perfect match. I then decided to expand on the idea I had earlier in my work, by taking colours and creating stripes.. but instead using the colours in a way to resemble the image. This flowing way of painting seemed to work better and helped develop my idea of colour.

This image is again another piece using Egon Schieles way of working and again using a colour stripe. I would say that this is my favourite drawing so far due to the colour stripe being so unique and I personally think the drawings of the necklaces are the best I have done so far.

From my previous work I have decided I want to try and create colour stripes using the water colour technique. However I want to base my colour stripes on diamonds. Diamonds and jewelles have multiple colours in them all blending and shining at one to create a certain other colour. I want to try and sample these colours and this idea in my work.

Artist Influence - Diamond Suply Co.

I found this image whilst browsing colour artists on Pinterest. I loved the way the colour bleed into each other. It reminded me very much of my colour stripes previous in my work. I also like the way it seemed trapped and somewhat controlled due to the sections in the illustration painted and the ones not. I like the contrast between the white and the sudden blend of colour. 

Diamond Supply Co.

Using this technique, I created my own diamond shape and previous colours used through out my work and created a large scale version of the artists work previous. I enjoyed working like this, however I found keeping the colours in certain spaces was difficult due to how watery the paint had to be to blend well. I really love the way the colours all look good together and blend well. This way of working really helped me to develop my work. It helped push my idea of capturing the colours in a diamond and helped further the idea of colour blending and controlled shapes. I played around with this technique and did a small sample in my sketchbook and this large scale version on A2 cartridge paper. 

Sketchbook Diamond 

 Artist Influence- Amy Sia 

I fell in love with Amy Sias work straight away firstly due to her amazing use of colour, then secondly due to fact it reminded me straight away of my colour stripes and what I had been trying hard to achieve. Her work is incredibly eyecatching and beautiful. It also fueled me further into thinking of pushing the idea of colour and collecting colours from certain images of diamonds. Amy works with print and uses it on a large scale to create things such as scarves. I love how everything is done by using bright colours too. This is also something I am very interested in looking at, how to develop the colours so they look bright and eyecatching. Just like a diamond.

Using white acrylic paint and water colour I pushed Amy Sia's idea of working on a large scale. I also decided to work free hand without any restrictions. I created these large colour blobs. Some of them I think to have worked well for example the purples really blended well and look good together. However I dont think the use of to many colours at once like the middle section look well together. 

 I wanted a new idea to push my development of finding colour. I found this illustration whilst browsing colour blogs. However it had no artists name or reference for me to look into it gave me the idea of collaging images I had already used.

I decided to create my own collage, using my photographs and small cuts of different colour stripes I had done previous. This way of working was on my favorites. This unique technique helped me into thinking about taking colour from this. Mixing up different images. I love the way this turned out due to how well it resembles a diamond.

Influenced by Amy Sia and her work with bright colours. I used my previous work of the collage diamond to pick out these bright colour stripes. That in themselves look like cuts of bright exotic diamonds. I really like the way I have pushed my project so far from the original photographs. I also really like the bright bold colours.

I also had the idea of hand dawn diamonds to go over the top of the colour stripes. By drawing on acetate it made it easier to see and understand my ideas by being able to see and change the colour of the diamond by moving it around.

Whilst I was creating these colour stripes. I used masking tape to keep the controlled blocks of colour. After I had finished with the masking tape I stuck it to a seperate sheet of paper not even realising that next to each other the pieces looked really effective. I then scanned these stripes into the computer and brightened the colours and image transferred them onto a sample piece of cotton. This again gave me a new set of colours and textures from the pushing of materials.

The current textiles world I am studying is construct but due to me being poorly I couldn't attend the weaving workshops, so whilst at home I decided to try a small sample of weave using yarns and colours i have used throughout my work. 

I love the textures and samples that weave creates and I wish that I had been able to do it and develop my work using this technique. 

Using the scanner and the left over threads from my weave, I just quickly thought of a way of redeveloping the shape of a diamond and the colours I have selected throughout my project. However this small sample of scanning threads didnt turn out as I thought it would have.

Knitting

Using the knitting machine was a new thing for me and I firstly found it very difficult, there was a lot of frustration and a lot of times where I wanted to give up. Firstly we learnt the basics of normal stitching, casting on in an easy way, different tensions and different yarns. We then when our confidence was building moved onto harder techniques. 

This was one of my favorite techniques we learnt. The Ladder stitch. I really want to develop this with different colour yarns that I have used previously in my project.

I then came across a yarn that was made up of multiple colours. 

It was amazing and fit so well with my current project, I began to experiment and push this yarn as far as i could without it snapping or breaking whilst trying to knit with it.

I created samples using my colour pallet from my project and blended yarns togther using 2-3 yarns at a time to create thick unique samples. Whilst always keeping this multi coloured foil yarn in use.

However, from trying all these samples, yarn blending ect I still found that just simply using the foil yarn on its own was my favorite technique.

Due to the nature of this yarn, it was very very difficult to work with. So I was struggling with a way of making it my own. I wanted to push it further.

I was researching knitting artists when I came across Miriam Chor Freitas.

Miriam uses the art of crotchet to create peieces of jewellery. It reminded me of rings, the detail and the idea of the basic shape of diamonds.

I started to draw rings, in a care free way. I wanted to show all the different connecting lines in the rings. I then used yarns I have used previously in the project to create small crocheted detailed pieces. I love to crotchet, and I really want to be able to add this technique to my knitting.

I wanted more detailed photos to look from so I re photographed some of the rings. I placed them in mount board so I was able to get better shots of the top of the rings.

I also then re drew from the new photo graphs.

Using the previous technique I used learnt from Egon Schieles work, I drew the rings just quickly by picking out basic lines and shapes. I think these drawings look really unique and different. Even though it isnt a perfect studied drawing I think its still recognizable as to what they are and where the detail is.

Julia Wright

Julia Wright uses crotchet to create unique one of a kind pieces of jewellery. I love the way she uses the crotchet to give different textures. I really want to develop this way of working on a small scale added to my current knitting.

Developed Sample

This photograph doesn't portray the colours of the samples well, however. I developed my samples further by working with the mistakes on the knitting machine and adding crotchet. I preferred the tasseled edges to my samples and the small unwanted holes. I worked with them and added crotchet in a frilly way to compliment the now useful mistakes. I also added a new technique I learnt called Partial Knit. This creates a more uneven surface to work with as it sort of bunches up the knitting giving it in my eye more of a unique style.

 I loved working with the knitting machine and learning how to use it. At first I didnt enjoy it as I thought I would never be able to use it. Learning all these new skills has opened my eyes into a new view of textiles. I think knit is something I will be very keen to explore again in the future.

I believe this project has gone a lot better than the last project of journeys, however due to me being very poorly for 2 of the main weeks of the project I feel I have let myself and my work done due to me not being able to make a weave. However apart from that I think I have developed my work well. If I was to do my project again I would have concentrated more on developing my drawing instead of sticking with one way. I also would have pushed my ideas further. For example the collage diamond was one of my favorite pieces however I only tried the technique once and then moved on. Overall, I think I have achieved what I wanted to do which was explore the use of colour, and push the idea of data 'Something Given' as far as I could.