Textiles Session One

Our first session doing textiles saw us projecting light through an image to create shadows which we then painted in a variety of mediums.  Using dyes, crayons, pastels and pencils we followed the light formations and reflections. 

We added on to the base paintings, using papers, fabrics and cuttings to create a collaged piece of work.

As only one of the projectors was working, the group sat round one table to work.   It was a little cramped, with not a great deal of space to spread out or form any different patterns, without impeding others.  However, we did what we could.  I used green and purple dyes to create lines across the paper, using bleach in areas to take out the colour and create effects.  Once it was dry, I used a picture of a woman modelling some knitwear from a vintage knitting pattern. 

Using crepe paper, I created a pleated skirt for my lady.  Stitching it on the sewing machine. 

For the bag I used a scrap of paper with a wool pattern plus a piece of painted paper I found in the paper drawer.

At first I decided to keep my picture in the purple and green colour I started off in, adding texture with scraps of tissue paper and threads in the same colours.   I then found some more fashion pictures, from roughly the same era, so decided to incorporate those into my work as well.

Finding this picture with the woman wearing a bright red scarf, I decided to add just a few highlights in red to bring the picture together.

Using  a red chalk to add a hint of colour on the green crepe skirt, and adding a few lines, words and small blocks of red.