at last i have a free un-child, un-work cluttered morning, probably the last for 7 whole weeks! Oh what to do with the little dear! Banksy tomorrow i hope. anyone else going please contact me?! anyway this chapter explores linear shapes. i went back to my sketchbook and the brush stroke, above right. i cut out a stencil and traced around several times and in various directions. there are more but i will just show a couple here!
by layering and overlapping a series of different lines were formed which were then used for the next process. the papers i used were coloured with chalk pastels. although Sian says 'a plain surface is so uninspiring' many spray painted surfaces are very smooth and evenly coated! i felt chalk pastels would lend themselves to the effect i wanted to achieve. some papers were coloured with two or more colours merging in the middle. some colours took at least 3 chalks to blend the correct colour.
i found my box of 50 'Grumbacher'chalks about 20 years ago in an Oxfam shop on Kensington High Street for 30p and i have never used them! until now!!! i am quite smitten with them but they are VERY messy. especially as i used my fingers to merge the colours. other contrasting colours were rubbed into stencil shapes for added embellishment. i used Sian's 'stack and whack' method of cutting out, dividing the papers across their width and then re-arranging them in various ways.
above 2 pieces linking arms! and what look like legs walking.
layers fanned out and machine stitched to background colour and using a semi transparent japanese paper for layering.
slotting pieces together above.
again slotting 3 pieces together. something in there reminds me of rabbit monsters and 'tartan' which i will delve into at greater depth later!
I really like the unusual colour combinations you have chosen - I would never have thought of that combination. I need to be braver! I hope to go and see Banksy too although not tomorrow. I hope the weather is kinder to you than today's! Karen
ReplyDeleteI love these experiments especially the colours you chose. Really great for future inspiration.
ReplyDeleteI particularly like the slotted together ones at the end. Is there something you need to tell us about rabbits? I may try and sneak down to the Banksy exhibition this week and then take the kids with me in August - looks great fun.
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