Friday, 29 September 2017


Mon 25th – Fri 29th Sept, 2017

                For the past week I have had a large focus on digital drawing. It isn’t something I attempted over the summer, and since I enjoy doing it, I thought I would come back to it. However rather than refer back to something I am comfortable with I tried to venture out and adapt it to something that is quite new for me. This began with mark making motifs and compositional drawing (as opposed to patterns). In my PDP with Lesley, she appreciated that you could tell my drawings of flowers had come from the real thing so this is something I would like to extend and work on since I am also beginning to get sick of looking at my current motifs. She also suggested that I begin to unpick my digital drawings to develop them more into qualities of weave e.g. warp – And start to think about the qualities of yarn. These are things that are fairly new to me this year since I now need to be much more selective and decisive of what I am going to weave. As daunting as that sounds I know it will help to develop my practice and I hope it’s a skill that develops well over the new couple of years.

 
 
                Considering these points, I began with working on warp ideas. The paint stripes created from my drawings do look good and represent the drawings well, however I am concerned about how overpowering they may be. I have previously worked with both a busy warp and a much more neutral one and I found I preferred the latter. Nevertheless, I would also like to create checks. This caused a problem. So far, the solution I have come up with is to have changed in colour in my warp but in very subtle shades. I would also like to create something quite mesh like which will require very thin yarn, which I will probably need to outsource.
 

                I have also since returned to digital drawing from the beginning of the week to create more repetitive patterns. This is to give me an idea of what kind of patterns I could make on the loom and hopefully having more visual representations in front of me will help guide me to the next stage of the weave process.


 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

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