Mon 2^nd – Sun 8^th Oct, 2017

                Throughout this week I have been trying to push my drawings forward to link more to weaving and to see how they can develop into elements of weave eg warp. To do this I went onto Scotweave to try and see what my current warp ideas would look like in reality with a weft also in place. Since I have been wanting to do checks/tartans I kept the warp and weft pretty much identical and ended up with some really nice results. I also tried some peg plans that I had been wanting to work with such as houndstooth and twills. 

                Since Scotweave I have been looking more into tartans/checks to see what exactly I want to do with them and how I can use my colour scheme effectively to enhance my tartan designs. In addition to this I have looked at specific tartan designs and recreated them with my colour scheme.

                After my group crit I have been looking at using an extra warp to create shapes within my weaving. This is also something I have been considering as I have been continuing with my drawings. So far I have used my motifs to create these shapes. Whether these will need to be simplified before I start weaving, I’m not sure; but for now they are working well and bringing in more vivid colours in subtle ways. 

                While I am still in the process of understanding my colour scheme and the proportions I need of each colour, I have stuck with fairly traditional autumnal colours for these drawings. The darker tartan pattern is my favourite because the colours are much more interesting and less traditional, which is the kind of aesthetic I want to go for. The other two are too traditional in appearance and look almost folky. It might be that their only needs to be a slight colour change but this is what I will be working on through to next week.