Locating: Final Week

This week I have concentrated on mixing a colour palette and to help do this I have carefully selected and colour matched yarns and threads with different textures to develop on my chosen image. Some of the yarns were doubled up to create different tones and mixture of textures.

Sketchbook.

 From this I bought 'raffia' threads to paint and use in further drawings. I chose black Linen as an initial base material to start producing some samples as the darkness in the material its structured with a definite warp and weft, I then bought various colours of metallic foils to layer over this once the material had been pleated (to create the linear structure).

Pleating linen and using bond-a-web to layer gold and copper foils.

Pleating linen and using bond-a-web to layer foils (aubergine, pale pink, matt gold, copper), taking colour away to tone down the metallic using sandpaper.

These samples were effective with the choices of colour and textures which were all decided from the development I have had within my sketchbook drawing. This to me is a huge development on previous projects, including the Apron brief as I am slowly learning how to correctly produce colour based drawing/samples - this was the whole aim for me within this project, and even from the work that I have started I can see a bigger and more skillful project developing from this.
The iridescence within these images has led me to want to start researching butterfly wings, however I haven't managed time as well as I hoped and won't be able to do this before the deadline.

This pushed me towards developing lateral thinking, I decided to expand on research into archive material I already had. I started to explore woven ribbons, as the layering and distressed textures from ageing inspired me more towards developing colour palettes which would allow me to think about producing different samples from this as a constant anomaly in my work is the colour pink. To do this I used a view finder to layer over images and create small yarn wrappings.

Selection of colours using a view finder.

Using a view finder to make tonal yarn wraps.