I'm having one of those weeks where nothing is going quite according to plan.. The good ideas are there but I'm not managing to execute them them in quite the way I envisage in my head!
It started with some very sumptuous looking cushions I found in a posh magazine which I thought "oh yes I can emulate them - in fact I can IMPROVE them" ha ha ... In my defense I want to say I am writing a report about being confident so I am being extremely enthusiastic and practicing confidence in large quantities... what I really need is patience and a steady hand or at least some one else with a restraining order!!
So back to the cushion... basically it had fancy sides and I thought yes I can do fancy sides!! I decided to see if I could follow through my concept idea and incorporate traditional and fancy - a bit rough and ready and with that thought, started a sample for raggy rug type sides for my own version of a posh cushion - how to refine raggy rugging? still not sure - still working on it!! The problem with raggy rugs is exactly that they are raggy and they fray - I've made a fun colourful sample - battled to pipe round the edge to tidy it up and everything we have been near is covered in bits of frayed cotton not exactly sumptuous!!
I'm not giving up - I shall investigate non fraying fabric and continue to have a little play - the texture is really nice both on the front and the back.. its not a wasted effort as I think I might scan the back in and use it somewhere.
The raggy rug remains a project in the working out period... meanwhile back at the Hartlepool ranch better known as The Northern School of Art we had a very inspiring (if a little intimidating) session on how to do hand rendered repeats - and my week continued to go slightly awry.... the tutor made it look so easy - I even rolled my eyes a couple of times -more fool me - after a skillful demonstration with clear instructions I put my very best patient mode on and set to - in the first instance really excited and enthusiastic - that lasted about an hour...... I had a little moan and then a wander and was inspired by another students work which being a bit further down the project looked tidier and made my current feeble effort look like it might improve on the next stage.... ha ha hah!!!
Basically I don't have the patience, precision, or currently the skill to make this work- doesn't mean I wont keep trying but I spent many frustrating hours placing and tracing and making endless corrections to my every grubbier tracing - finally covered in graphite and silently weeping I tried to convert the tracing to a final drawing.
I knew what I wanted it to look like and it came nowhere near! and I realise I need to PRACTICE!! but... its sooooooo time consuming and the end result was fairly dreadful - no really dreadful!!! somehow I had misplaced everything - time to start again but first several gins and an break doing something I feel confident in.
This, surprisingly, was repeat designs on Photoshop - minor panic when somehow I managed to loose all the tools down the side but staying calm I eventually recovered them... more silent weeping ... and I have made a reasonable start to some digital repeats - using my line drawings I have copied them and then cut them up and rearranged them to make some very abstract patterns I have managed to make some nice repeat backgrounds - more to follow - watch this space... So in the end the week is not lost - just part of a frustrated creative experience!!
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