Module 1 – Chapter 4

I have again used a basic star design, this time a 6 pointed star.
CUT AND FOLD DESIGN SHAPES IN BLACK PAPER




I have just noticed that when these pages were scanned the points of some of the stars on the right hand side of the pages have been cut off. I can assure you they are all there on the original pages!
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I think you can see where the paper was folded in these examples - I folded it unevenly
and off centre which resulted in these shapes.

CUT AND FOLD DESIGNS IN COLOURED PAPER

This is part of the design at the bottom of page 1.4.7 which I framed with a white window.

Module 1 – Chapter 3

 

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT BASED ON THE STAR

DESIGN SHEET A

I found this chapter really interesting, and sometimes challenging, especially doing the distortion and perspective distortion, but I was quite happy with the results. I am not sure if it’s clear from the scan, but I rubbed a gold shiva paintstik over some of the shapes because I thought the plain paper could do with a bit of interest. Some of the others I outlined with a gold pen or put gold dots around some edges.

DESIGN SHEET B

DESIGN SHEET C

I particularly enjoyed Design Sheet C because of the opportunity to create some interesting repeat patterns with the same basic shape.

Module 1 – Chapter 2

 

MAKING COLOURED PAPERS

I used 110gsm cartridge paper, crumpled brown paper and newspaper (Indonesian language paper as it happens) for the coloured papers. As I mentioned in my email I was a bit disappointed with the fact that the paper was a bit uneven from the ink and I have noted your response about how to deal with that in the future. I don’t mind the effect in some ways, but I just found it made it more difficult to get the cut out pieces to sit neatly. However, after I had stuck them to the pages I put a large heavy book on top and that has helped.

I didn’t have any large quantities of inks, only tiny bottles, and there were none available in my home town, so when I went to the larger city a couple of hours away I was able to get one bottle of red and one of green. (It was lucky those were the colours I had chosen because they were the only bottles they had in stock!). The red said it was scarlet but it was a bit lighter than I had expected. However, I added some other reds and greens from my tiny bottles to add some highlights.

 

PRINTING ONTO COLOURED PAPERS

I chose a quarter of my star shape and printed with red acrylic ink on to some of the coloured papers.  I enjoyed experimenting with placement of the stamp to create new designs.

 

 

STAR SHAPES FROM COLOURED PAPERS

Module 1 – Chapter 1

MODULE 1 - CHAPTER 1

I decided to use a star shape for the first four chapters of this module. As I started it in the couple of weeks before Christmas there seemed to be a lot of stars everywhere, but it did make me aware of how often stars are used in advertising and general decoration.

I have used an A4 Art Diary to paste all my pieces into as I have a scanner that takes A4.

 

And I have used a numbering system for my pages which is, e.g.

 

1.2.1.  which is Module 1, Chapter 2, page 1.

 

I hope that is ok, but it seemed to me an easy way to make sure I was able to find things later.

 

RESEARCH

Sorry, but I can’t seem to get this to sit straight on the page, which may be due to my not having it straight when it was scanned. I am still getting used to doing this uploading to a blog! I can redo it if you wish.

 

 

RESEARCH IMAGES

 

 

LINE DRAWINGS AND RUBBINGS

 

 

COLOUR CIRCLE

 

When I wanted to do this colour circle I didn’t have any gouache water colour paints so I did  a colour wheel with acrylic paints. However, the end result was a bit uneven, so I repeated it when I had been able to get some gouache paints and I was much happier with the result. Although I have seen many colour wheels over the years I have never done one myself, and I found it very interesting to actually make the colours. It certainly made me much more aware of how colours are created and the difference a small change in the colour contents can make.