Part Three: Project Six – Stage One.

Manipulating Fabric:

These definitely require being sorted through and into the same colour groups. There are more samples than necessary so I will need some system to work to and be organised.

To really get a feel for fabrics they need to be experienced either in pencil or coloured pencil for a start. The hollows and folds are inconspicuous until the eye separates them out from the surface of each fabric.

Pencil sketches enable me to see and draw the textures as the eye sees them. More times than not they depend on one’s understanding of and interpretation of what I am seeing and the ability to use as many different marks as possible to record them on paper. Colour and shapes have been drawn with water-colour pencils so that the application of water to the marks adds another dimension altogether.

I have dated these as required and drawn them in my sketch book prior to moving on to stage two. The more interesting aspect of these drawings was that I used the side of a B pencil more so than I have done before because this way it seemed that the textures were easy to convey.