Part Two: Project Five – Stage Two

Selecting design ideas:

The original design came from my sketchbook of an acrylic painting on calico of the growth rings on a tree stump. By taking a snap shot of the image I was able to experiment with the colours and theme of the rings so that eventually I came up with a three D representation by cutting around the rings and letting the result droop downwards in relief.

Once again this is evidence of working towards a selected design stage by stage so that the outcome is a resolution of the back up material.

Made up blocks of the observed designs from computer ‘mouse pads’.

The end to a frustrating day trying to resolve patterns and load up images. School holidays seem to slow the up and down load times because supposedly students are playing on their computers – so much for the speed of broadband. Glad I am not still on ‘dial-up’.

 Will make a fresh start tomorrow.

The method used was to identify a selected image for further resolution and design. The image was of a patterned piece which I dissected, played around with in my sketchbook, developed other blocks of colours and shapes emanating from the design, set them up in a patterned form and with the use of mirrors rearranged the sequence to form further patterns. From this research I then used other constructed blocks for printing and painting out various trial patterns. A very pleasing and fullfilling series of trials and samples. Other options just keep suggesting themselves.