#colouroncolour

[beccawilkinsontextiles-blog]

DRAWING PROCESS

My sketchbook is very much a process of thought development and ideas. I started by looking at cliff faces with reference to the idea of fossils and jewels. I left this idea and used the texture of cliffs by introducing binder and layers of acrylic onto my pages whilst exploring colours. 

small chain repeats, i have used these to start to see how i can simplify the shapes of jewels found in the Cheapside hoard. Looking at these items as simplified shapes has been really interesting especially when thinking about the fact that I'm designing for kids.This is a demographic that sees everything simply, they break thing apart to understand them - just as i am in my design process. I am understanding the shapes of jewels and becoming more familiar with them as i break them down. 

WHITE SPACE: I have used a lot of this in my book and this is not how i want to be working. As i move onto samples , i will work on dyed fabrics and challenge myself to embrace colour on colour more and play around with extracting colour instead of always working from white and adding it. 

[chesrosey]

BA3B ARCHITECTURE INSPIRED DRAWINGS // CONCERTINA SKETCHBOOK From the feedback I recieved from my last project, I have been told to continue with my style of drawing in a concertina sketchbook. In my last project, I drew with Promarker Posca Pens onto a pure white background, which I found worked really well for look I was achieving. Knowing this, when I had a tutorial on my feedback from my last project, my tutor suggested that I should create base background colours in my sketchbook, which I should then draw onto. Taking this into consideration, once I had my finalised colour palettes and numerous amounts of colour testing, I was able to print with the colours I created onto my sketchbook as a background starting point. For the background colours, I used procion dyes which I screen printed with onto my spread out sketchbook in the print room. The downside to open screen printing onto this specific sketchbook paper, was the fact it created bubbles, meaning I was unable to achieve a flat colour like I can have on fabric. Although there was not full flat colour, I am still pleased with the outcome I recieved! In doing this, allowed me to have a varied coloured background which I could then incorporate my drawings onto.

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