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Spotty moths




So the brief is Dot Spots and all things Circular so very circuitously I have arrived at spotty moths... or moths on spots or moths in circles or even circling moths ..... yes its a broad interpretation of the brief but it will work out well and I hope will produce some interesting work.

Despite our academic year rapidly coming to an end there is still lots to learn and do - today we had an explanation and demonstration of digital printing.  I've been lucky and last term had some of my samples printed up, its very exciting to see your own designs actually on cloth - really very fabulous if I'm honest, but I'm probably going to leave all that exciting malarkey to look forward to next year, I'm going to practise embellishment to end this year with.

For this assignment we have to decide on a couple of techniques we either like or want to work up and concentrate on them and produce a collection of samples and some finished pieces.  The class was buzzing... so many different directions happening I think the end body of work promises to be very exciting.

I've chosen ( at this point in time - but its early days) to use some hand drawn images and using heat transfer paper I will put them on various back grounds and embellish them using embroidery and collage work - I have some ideas in my head and I am eager to see if they translate to reality.

I started this week with some very simple outline drawings of moths and a small foray into some hand embroidery.  This the beginning of what will be a more extensive work, Printed moths on fine muslin and metallic thread embroidery to embellish.  Its hard to see the detail here but hopefully as the embroidery grows it will become more distinctive.

I've got a selection of moth drawings to work with and an infinite selection of embellishments and different fabrics to work on or with so I'm looking forward to a very enjoyable productive few weeks.


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