The Draw Something Every Day challenge. I’ve been exploring a photo of apples, looking at colours, shapes and textures; these drawings focus on shape and form.
seeing shapes
OCA Textiles 1 is (obviously) a textile course, but a significant proportion of the exercises involve design work on paper – I’m still not sure what I think about this or whether I’ll continue to work that way – it’s a big change for me since my previous method was basically to get out the materials and see what happened. It feels good, though, to be challenged so fundamentally. I did enjoy this exercise very much – to isolate interesting parts of an image using a frame and represent them, focusing on the shapes.
Draw Something Every Day
The Draw Something Every Day challenge. This started off with me thinking about pastel colours for an assignment. I saw a big heap of candy coated chocolate eggs on a market stall and started doodling shapes and arrangements for a potential design.
The assignment was to do colour mixing with pastel colours using a pointillist stitch technique in a design derived from an image. I tried to do some painting and drawing in pastel colours using shells and stones and flowers, but there was nothing I wanted to take further. I found it came more naturally to work the colours directly in the stitching in a more abstract way. It is inspired by the candy eggs and the doodles but has taken on a life of its own.
Draw Something Every Day
The Draw Something Every Day challenge. I only managed to draw on one day, so this is it. But I probably wouldn’t have done any at all without the challenge. And today is a new week!
Draw Something Every Day
The Draw Something Every Day challenge