Flower sketches

More flowery experiments

So the last set of flowers were patterns from a variety of places but all identified as flowers. Some of the examples used the sock wool I made my little blanket from, other are silk embroidery thread.

Most of this set however are general patterns that you would piece together to make a blanket or something. The yellow (No 8) and blue are crochet cottons. Those on the right embroidery cotton again. The green one with the swirl, omitting the flower in the purple

Possibly these patterns aren’t suitable for my rosey wreath.

MER

Juxtaposition

The second book we are going to make in class, in addition to the concertina, is a stab bound pocket book. This is very simple to construct as you just sew the pages together. Traditionally there is one big difference between the two book types. 

Fiery Pearls of Wisdom

Part of the narrative of the origami pot is that the Dragons have left off hunting the Fiery Pearl to stop for a cup of tea. Therefore the Pearl has to go somewhere on the pot and I’ve put it is on the lid.

The question though is how and where and when?

Samples 3 – Origami

Intaglio printing is all about subtle changes in hight within the plate were you can trap ink. Some origami forms have a great variation in the number of layers across the finished piece. The experiment I did here was with the Pinwheel tessellation. (not technically origami as you have to cut the paper to get the effect.) Looking for a link for you I’ve discovered lots of different Pinwheels so… confusion.

Griffith Cracks

I have finally managed to pick up a book I ordered way back when I wrote this post. Not only that I’ve read most of it even though it’s full of words like diffusion-limited aggregation, dense-branching morphology and self similarity.

Li

So I got up pretty close and personal with lots of natural phenomena building the shed, not all of it was dead. It was the inanimate patterns that held still long enough to keep my attention as I don’t have a fascinated with invertebrates.

Li is a concept from Chinese philiosophy. It’s often translated as ‘principle’ which I don’t find terrible helpful. I tend to think of Li as the thing-ness of a thing, rather than the ought-ness.

Black Square – part iii

I went to the last weekend of this exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery – One hundred years of Abstract art kicking off with Malevich’s painting of a black square. it was huge and full of words and things.

The first thing I got from the show is how absolutely the world has changed over the last century. How what is acceptable has been overturned so many times, and the difficultly in imagining how revolutionary abstract art first was. There was lots of articles written about the exhibition, here’s one from the Guardian.

Any way I thought I had written about this exhibition at the RA last summer then I would have to witter on too much about this one, but no. At least not here.

One of the question s from the blog hop was: How does my work differ from others of my genre?

I don’t even know what my genre is so how am I going to answer that.

I’ve been thinking a bit about tribes instead – like the art groupies of E1.

I’m sure I’m a member of lots of tribes, there’s the one I look like on the outside and the ones I’m in, in the inside.

One day I’ll find the rest of my right now, making things and thinking tribe. And that will be good.

meanwhile I’ve got things to do. (maybe next time I’ll be a little more articulate – and have read all those books I brought at the whitechapel shop – or atlas looked at the pictures… )

MER

 

Ichnofacies, Geodes and Vugs

On the beach at Whitstable I found some tiny pebbles, full of holes. I’d been making holes in my poor bleached papers so I went back to my sketch books to see what other holes I had observed. You can define holes in stones in a number of different ways – Ichnofacies  Geodes and  Vugs are just a start.

Here’s a selection of holes and ideas of holes.

MER

Is realism necessary – part ii

So if we are going for effect, lets go!

this one is about A6 in size. On the beach detail?

Both sides of this paper were interesting: so use both. the white interior of the torn edges makes a good quartz vein.

The background here is a little weak, but none of these are mounted yet.

Or you can go with a theme: colour RED

or GREEN…

Or minimalist (all these are about A5)

I have some 30×100 canvases. How could a horizontal composition work? in a big sweep?

or a vertical one? ‘walk’ up the frame…

Such a diverse selection of pebbles might not occur in nature.

Pass the time arranging pebbles on the sand.

…all these are a bout 30cm wide.

Or maybe pile then on the rocks.