Friday, 10 October 2014

Visual Research Development

After thorough observation of my sketchbook drawings and underlying theme, I found myself struggling to move on and further decelop my practice, this was probably due to lack of attention to my artist research and experimentation with my drawings. Therefore I decide to play around with parts of my successful drawings by processing them through the photocopier and printing onto tracing paper so I could layer them up and create patterns, this was helpful as I  found new patterns and marks to take inspiration from.


From these patterns I decided to create new drawings so I processed them through various drawing techniques, this pattern in particular was translated into a mono print. For this mono print I used a gold gel pen to create the marks as it keeps the metallic theme from the Japanese inspiration consistent. 

I found these mono prints really bland and flat, so I created more mono prints using metallic acrylic paint to print onto and with. These were successful as I could see a colour pallet developing, the marks and inconsistency of constant colour also helped me to keep in mind materials with different qualities, that will be useful to create samples with e.g. pile fabrics - velvet.


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