Module 1 Chapter 11 Bold Design Devleopment

Following discussions with my tutor in April 2018, here is an outline of a chapter combining Chapter 11 Bold design development and workshop activities I attended with Bobby Britnell, inspired by Ben Nicholson.  This is for my tutor to review and confirm whether I can go ahead with these ideas.

The idea is to use large, bold, simple marks of the shapes and colours of my theme, related to storage of towels used in bathrooms and kitchens.  Different tools being used for different effects.

 

Therefore there will be:

• collection of relevant photos, magazines and research of different storage techniques
• initial drawings from these 
• leading to different basic marks and lines showing the shapes and folds in the towels and any interesting edges
• mono-printing with or without rollers using low relief card, with and without overlays
• selecting small area from a few drawings, scanned or copied to create new design compositions
• using collaging, drawing with scissors
• considering small areas for stitch
• and considering final series of 2 or 3 pieces

It is planned to work mostly with different papers and thin card, but the designs could be easily transferred to natural fabric such as calico, cotton, silk or voile.

Drawing
So, starting with a plain background when doing line drawings from original sources, both looking and not looking at the paper

Making marks
on plain, coloured or interesting background - making marks:

• paint with 6cm (3" ) brush
• wide felt tip pens/markers
• bleach marks on black tissue paper 

Consider different:

• thicknesses of mark/line
• textures of mark/line
• tones
• overlapping

Monoprinting

• make reference to examples in original Chapter 11
• make reference to Bobby Britnell workshop - using low relief blocks, mat and acrylic paint (when using materials add 50% fabric medium to paint), tissue paper, newspaper and rollers, both for printing and using them as mark makers, roller edge and pressing sequences

Next stage following original Chapter 11

• Select small area from some pieces above
• Scan or copy design several times for cutting up into different size rectangles (considering the shelves, boxes, drawers on which towels are stored)
• Cut one copy into smaller and/or larger rectangles and rotate one 90 and 180 degrees for fresh look
• Set different rectangles side by side
• Repeat patterns
• Ghosting effect (as in Bobby Britnell's workshop) 

Add shapes to work of contrasting paper

Add details of lines or marks to printed papers


Work from workshop showing results from using low relief block mono printing, adding highlights and marks using a roller

Highlight some lines with consideration to stitching, such as edging or patterend design strips found on towels 

Module 1 Chapter 9 Explore with abstraced fragments

This is a short entry, as I showed the different samples to my tutor, Sian Martin at Plas Tan y Bwlch in April 2018.
I carried out a number of activities related to hanging towels within a bathroom.

They included basic drawn lines of the appearance of the towels from photos and the hanging towels in situ, 6 x 4 inches

From these I recorded other activities within a A3 notebook:

• Showing repeated and traced ruled line drawings with 6x4 cm rectangles
• Selecting some and colouring and altering using a computer programme
• Using a repeated design colouring with different media, including crayon, paint, inks, water based watercolour pencils, varying the quantities of and individual colour tone, complementary colours in black and white, orange and blue
• As above using papers prepared in an earlier chapter
• Textured samples stored in a small box using different media 6 x 4 inches