Chapter 10 Design exploration with image copies - Option C

1.10.12 This is a close up of the result. I like the clarity of the design and the little pools of intense colour.

1.10.11 I used hand dyed linen as a background and attached the 2 pieces of decorated paper with 505 then small stitches. Then I hand embroidered the piece to echo the paper design.

1.10.10 I photo copied it and then drew into the design using coloured pencils.

1.10.9 I like the simplicity here and the mottled background of the reverse of the paper. I decide to use this design to take forward.

 1.10.8 Too busy again and I couldn't work into it easily. I couldn't use bleach on this as the colouring is done with markel sticks and oil pastels. I do like the soft colours and edges though so I may draw on these papers in the future!

1.10.7 shows 2 designs woven into each other. I thought it would be difficult to work into this as I needed more background and I didn't like the contrast of plain paper. I do like the reverse side here as rusty patches have occurred despite using a green wash. The front side is too much like a child's drawing as I used crayons.

 1.10.6 shows the original orange washed copy as the background to the coloured reverse side. The orange is too strong despite being a dilute wash and drowns the coloured side. Also the design is too busy.

1.10.5 shows another variation. I like these blue designs as they are simple and lend themselves to working into them. However I don't want to use blue so I tried with the orange and green designs. 

1.10.4 shows a blue washed copy as a background to the reverse side coloured.

I cut these into sections as in 1.10.2 and rearranged them, sometimes combining more than one.

 1.10.3 markel sticks and watercolour pencils washes with water. I like the colours here.

 1.10.2 cut into sections. This is the front of an orange wash of the bone corpuscles.

1.10.1

I made black and white photocopies of a few of my collected images and then washed them with diluted ink in my colour scheme. I coloured these in on the front or the back using a mixture of crayons, pastels, markel sticks and water-soluble pencils. These are 3 examples of these. The first is coloured on the back of a blue wash.