Blog review

Further things to explore after reading through my blog posts...

• Use the wax resist rubbings but paint over with different colours - greys, greens, browns.
  
• Create and cut out some the design elements and use in a collage to recreate the original photos. For example the stamped screw head, the wax resist grain, the wood knot rubbing...
• Explore the grass texture...
• Paint some backgrounds and use the eraser stamp on top
• Explore the contrast between the smoother, regular structure of the platform and the grass beneath it.
• Make a wood knot stamp.

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Rubbings 3 and some ideas to explore

 

Continuing exploration through taking rubbings... Of the knots in the wood grain. Started to think about mark making with stitches.

 

Some ideas to explore... How to make marks, both on paper and fabric and in stitch.

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Rubbings 2

 

I took a rubbing of the screw heads on the wooden platform. This is the other side of the paper.

 

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Rubbings 1

I started my exploration by taking some rubbings of the surface using wax crayon, pencil and charcoal.

 

The grain of wooden surface was quite rough in parts... Knots in the wood and the rusty screw heads added extra interest. I also liked the void created between the planks. This was not immediately obvious in the original photo as the grass beneath it made it seem quite flat and 2 dimensional.

 

 

 

Some patterns emerged within the grain... Some undulating others thick and thin.

 

I like the boldness of the charcoal rubbing. And the wax resist worked quite well too.

 

 

 

 

This background was created using the edge of board dipped in black paint and stamped across the pages. The spots were a happy accident... Like screw heads.

 

 

Repeated rubbings over the screw heads was interesting too...

 

 

And led to this bubble wrap print... A background for further work in my sketchbook.

 

 

Some wax crayon rubbings of the knots.... interesting shapes to stitch.

 

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Wooden platform

I have decided to use the wooden platform as my surface...

 

I like the regular shapes, the texture of the wood and screws. I like the vibrancy of the green peaking through the neutral washed out planks of wood.

 

 

 

I couldn't resist some photoshopping of the image.... Black and white and a negative image.

I think these show the graphic quality of the shapes and the texture of the grain very well.

On the negative image the grass looks like its been made by printing with crumpled paper, the screw heads like sparkling stars...


 

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Surface 2

This is part of the garden wall.

I love the foliage growing between the bricks and the contrast between the green and the reddy bricks.

The foliage looks delicate but is obviously persistent and strong to force its way through the mortar of the brick wall

If I had taken a photo of the climbing platform two weeks ago the grass would have been forcing its way through the wooden slats...

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Surface 1

The platform from Elizabeth's climbing frame.

It's quite worn and the wood is untreated.

I like the wood grain, rusty nails and the green grass peeping through.

 

It may be too limited in colour and in shapes. Lots of lines though!

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