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SOME DRAWINGS WITH THE COLOUR WORKED INTO

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DRAWING WITH JOHN >>>>>>

:) During the second week of the pop up drawing we had the pleasure of being taught by a tutor at camberwell college of design called John and he had previously worked at Chelsea as well. He was extremely insightful and was constantly saying how barmy we all arrrre which is probably true. We had a set of three drawing excercises through the day..

1>>> METAMORPHOSIS. Choose two objects from your collection and morph them together through 5 stages from one to the other. Actually quite hard to do but it really got out mind working at 10am
I CHOSE to use the large spoon and the coffee mug because they had totally different shapes but interesting ones that could fit.

2>>>> INVENT. look at one or more of your objects and create different purposes compared to their original ones.
I CHOSE to look at the collection of spoons that I have, about 9 all together ranging in size, and designed a 'series of weapons' out of them. Slightly odd but they kind of worked and it was fun making up the different names.

3>>>>> INNER WORKINGS. We had to choose a different object from the others we had used already and show how we think that object was made through whatever way we want.
I CHOSE to loom at a ring I have that bends with the knuckle and almost replicates a small piece of armour and did a straight forward yet detailed drawing of how the ring functioned as it bent with the shape of the finger. This was my favourite drawing of the day and thankfully, John agreed>>>> HERE ARE THE PIECES.

IF i'm being totally honest the first drawings that we produced from our objects werent my faveourites.. we had our tutor Kathryn direct us through various drawing styles throughout the day (ten second ones, styles such as :limp, bendy, fluffy, delicate, strong, thick, wet) so by the end of that day we had got through a shit load of paper. It was fun as well but a few of them were dissapointing, however this was such a welcomed activity after a whole summer of pretty much no drawing.. 

ANYWAY, then things got interesting and we were being taught by another tutor who is head of CAD print, called Melanie Bowles (she is actually very productive within the textiles industry too so i'll link some work). She started looking at texture and markings with us which was what we wanted because after all we are on a TEXTiles course. We had to produce a serious of small,medium and large squares with markings on from our objects. Here a cheeky few ( ) http://www.melaniebowles.co.uk/m_bowles/Home.html( )    and heres a lookywook at her bookywook DIGITAL TEXTILE DESIGN

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SO we started off this pop up project with our collection of objects.. mine were a mixture of family/religious/symbolic/textiles/travel/childhood/fashion and art related things....



I am not religious..

Here are some visuals...

POPUP>>>>>>>

WE ended the first rough guide project, which I wasn't too upset about because it was a nice starter but I was really eager to get straight to the main. I wanted a project with more substance and this is what we have been working on for almost two weeks now. It's called POP UP. It started out as a collection of objects that related to us/reflected something we wanted to show. We were told we would be working with these objects in a 2D format over the next two weeks and then taking what we had gathered into our forth-coming workshops within weave, stictch, knit and print. EXCITING. We were shown around the Chelsea Space exhibition which currently is showcasing work called 'Ideal Home'. The curator told us that he had gathered pieces of art work, textiles and sculpture that reminded him of his childhood and teen years- they all had revlevance to him and reflected well with each other and I loved that idea. The link to chelsea space is at the bottom of my blog.