Part Four: Project Eight – Stage Two. Exercise One.

Experimenting with structures.

 

There is some satisfaction in going back and using some earlier visual source material in that it not only reduces the great volume of work that has been filed but gives it a degree of usefulness. In fact all three samples have some positive elements about each one. The technique is pretty much ‘craft work’ but the outcomes can be seen as a positive construct. The first sample has movement because the outlines and edges to the base material are curved and just not straight and parallel with one another.The second sample has colour and shape because the pattern is just not all made up of squares it also has rectangles. The third sample has a congestion of colour on the right hand side whereas the gold and the black/blue really enhance the visual effect of the overall design. This exercise could have a real sense of resolution once the development stages are progressed.

Varying the size and shape of the strips makes for a more interesting visual piece as does using a variation of materials. To experiment further by working with more open spaces within the design would help to prevent some of the congestion sensations as a result of bordering once strip up against another. Less rather than more would be the next step.