tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88920920950114303252024-03-19T06:09:07.982-07:00Fibre PatternsLGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-8157424081018830812020-08-30T04:44:00.002-07:002020-08-30T05:10:07.376-07:00Weaving in the time of COVID<p> What’s on my loom?</p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Being a bit distractable it often happens that I end up working on more than one thing at the time, never mind the knitting project that waits for bouts of TV watching. I have just finished a largish black piece using leather (40x60 cm). It was very enjoyable weaving that, I loved the way the rug yarn worked with boucle mohair and lurex weaving yarns. 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I am not the most patient person in the world, and as I work as well I like to feel I am achieving something in my spare time, which is why I usually work on something a bit more chunky that builds up more quickly (‘quick’ is a relative term in tapestry weaving to say the least!). Although the fineness of the white tapestry is interesting, it is quite flawed - I have been using homespun yarn mainly, all manner of fibres in the weft, but mainly wool and silk. Homespun can at times be uneven and so it splays out the warp and has surprisingly made the piece wider as the weaving progresses, rather than narrowing which is the most common problem in tapestry weaving). And if I think about the weaving speed, or lack thereof, this piece is quite testing: weaving for say, 3-4 hours in the afternoon on this piece which is about 21 cm wide I manage just about 3-4 cm across its width – so either I am a slow weaver or the thing just demands a different way of thinking about making. The making process itself becomes the thing, I can’t force it or become too impatient for it to be finished.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGY1PHxjssB4oCwWafc1PyRn45ZLLoxrrPt2Y0aKlw0Fgf7pPIQqzGNbnWDe7ojV97-BO4EUm40L6KpzU50i8WKFCIA90NheeUt-vaIyqUsG5ydzjdkT33EfGLT9OvHg7dJe2gWcaIi4/s2048/IMG_6393.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGGY1PHxjssB4oCwWafc1PyRn45ZLLoxrrPt2Y0aKlw0Fgf7pPIQqzGNbnWDe7ojV97-BO4EUm40L6KpzU50i8WKFCIA90NheeUt-vaIyqUsG5ydzjdkT33EfGLT9OvHg7dJe2gWcaIi4/s640/IMG_6393.JPG" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">To move things on a bit I am therefore also weaving a sample in greens with a bit of blue, brown and purple at a more sensible sett. 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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I just adore Hicks' work, and as fibre art seems to be having a bit of a revival she and other fibre artists are being shown - with Olga de Almaral being shown in Bruxelles and Annie Albers at the Tate Modern in the Autumn it is a good time to catch up on seeing the actual works that one otherwise just ends up looking at in books or one the web. So off I went to Paris for a night so that there would be one full day for the visit to the Pompidou Centre. I stayed in a small hotel near by, with tiny rooms and even smaller shower cubicles which you had to squeeze into. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And as the very first thing to see at the Pompidou Centre was of course the Hicks' exhibition, Lifelines - I took lots of photographs but do not want to infringe copyright so will not include any here. But I can tell you that it was quite a spectacular show, with many large scale works and a lot of her minimes, the small weavings she weaves on a small mobile loom - these spanned her whole life of making, so there were weaving from 1958 or so and onwards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a lot of colour in this work - and it was quite a controlled use of colour, palettes led by main colour keys and lovely textures of woven, wrapped and untangled rope-like materials. There were a long series of films covering her more recent her career from the 1980s onwards. I spent a couple of hours in the gallery, watching all the films, studying the smaller works and wondering at the larger wrapped works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I could spend a lot of time describing my exaltation at being at this exhibition. How wonderful to have been around at a time when the fibre arts movement was at its early beginnings as Hicks was, to be given the opportunities to travel, meet fascinating textile cultures in the South and Middle Americas, to experience encounters with architecture and sculpture, photography and yarn and synthesise all these impressions. Hicks' work was really ground breaking sitting alongside the other textile Modernists of the 1960s and -70s as the early voices of monumentally scaled work that related to space in particular ways. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In one film she discusses discovering the use of the repeatable textile module and using this in many different permutations. Various works were described in the films and impressions of her work methods. The exhibition was really a gift and something I will try to remember for a long time - and it gets even better: she was sitting nearby my table in the museum cafe, and I summoned up the courage to go and ask for her signature in the catalogue I had bought, and she kindly wrote a dedication in it! I am so thrilled that she was so generous and didn't seem to be bothered that someone quite excited came up to her like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The rest of the photos will show a few impressions from the Pompidou, starting with the grafitti in the women's loo, where people had written into the grouting between the times, which showed a but of inventiveness:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And a pigeon also found the water useful, he landed just in front on me and drank plenty, creating his own small figure in the water.</span></div>
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<br />LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-32945218348184703382018-04-21T11:47:00.001-07:002018-04-21T11:50:32.380-07:00A tapestry workshop in April<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This post will be brief - just enough to say that I went on a tapestry weaving workshop recently which was absolutely great, mainly on colour and thinking about simplification in design. It was taught by Fiona Rutherford and the conceptual premise of the workshop was to think about colour in the context of the Bauhaus weavers - how colour is used in a disciplined way. My natural inclination is the opposite - no simplification, more complexity, so this was a lesson in pulling back and away from intuitive impulses and reflecting on working in a more controlled fashion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The piece in progress was intended as a continuation of the controlled colour, but letting texture take over. I used a fairly lengthy length of yarn for the rya tufts. They are to contrast with the woven squares on the right, but I think the rya is a bit dominant at the moment so I may need to trim the tufts.</span></div>
LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-23684188960627816412018-04-21T10:59:00.000-07:002018-04-21T11:36:43.701-07:00Visit to Denmark - photography<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once a year I travel to Denmark. This year I was lucky to catch some open studios that were going on and some of the work was very good. There were guest artists from Sweden, Iceland and Germany, some textile art and we managed to visit a large art group that have been set up in a now closed town hall, resurrected as an art studio.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was all very enjoyable and of course I stayed with my family and there was time to relax and do a bit of photography.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is what I will mainly deal with in this blog. in the village I grew up in there are buildings now standing there decaying, as no-one seems to want to live there, as the young people move away, the remaining population becoming elderly and so not having the energy to spend on buildings that are becoming broken with time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I will start with a few from a building that was leaking water, concrete bleeding minerals and creating stalactites, leaving old electrical equipment rusty and walls and ceilings flaking, dripping and cracking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is kind of sad seeing a building which once housed a family and which has had the beginnings of a new extension now left unused and worn looking. Of course decay is photogenic, and the light was bright, so shadows were hard in the sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the original old switches on crackling tiles. When the building was first built it was the village dairy and the electric fittings and old tiles still tell of this practical function for the village. Now there is a very little dairy cattle left in the village as cereal growth is the dominant agricultural production.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First an old door in one of the local towns - a fine slightly rococo door and the plants trained around it makes it quite romantic looking</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I arrive it was snowing - in late March! The ploughed fields were had a dusting of snow which stayed for a day or two</span></div>
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LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-9926704279505354982018-02-23T12:28:00.000-08:002018-02-23T12:37:30.208-08:00A Polish tapestry<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recently a Polish tapestry came up for sale on an auction site and I bought it as I have been interested in various former Soviet countries' tapestry cultures for a while now and have been gathering a few books on the tapestries of Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Russia. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So finding a tapestry from 1975 or so seems to fit very well with my readings of that era.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You may ask what it is in these tapestries I like - I was introduced to tapestry weaving in Denmark as a teenager in the mid-1980s. This was a time when the aesthetic of the fibre arts movement had been disseminated for a while through various publications and books, mostly of a 'how to' nature and I went regularly to the local library to explore the latest in tapestry weaving books. Of course these books did not deal with Eastern bloc tapestry, but the aesthetic was hinted at in the use of natural fibres, natural colours or vegetable died yarn. I don't really remember what the iconography related to - probably themes such as butterflies, abstraction, or evocations of folk tapestry motifs - like in Sweden Danish folk textiles used a type of kelim type of design, and my mother has such a weaving from 1906 or so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whatever it was, I was hooked on tapestry and used homespun coarse wool, explored exposing the warp, used dog hair yarn and other experimental elements. And now, decades later, as I slowly re-engage with tapestry weaving, and with experimental art work, I find going to the Eastern European weavers as they were then, now Baltic, Polish, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hungarian and so on, there is much to learn from them. There is just a tiny hint of the innovations from the Polish art weavers of the 1960s who came from art colleges and the unique experimental tapestry culture they experienced there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This may all sound a bit rambling, but I don't want to pursue a major exposition on the last 50 years of tapestry weaving, just to say that I think the 1960s and -70s fibrearts continue to be a great source of inspiration and freedom of thinking about the medium. Much focus on the tradition of tapestry and a purist frame of mind around the perfect surface and reproducibility can be useful in commercial work, but I prefer the freedom and openness to possibilities that the medium can also provide and which was proven so well by the fibre artists of the mid 20th century.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When it was shown on the auction site it was very difficult to see the proper colouring, the details and full scale of the piece. It is around 99 x 124 cm large, a good size, and the weft is thick. There is a pale yellow border down the sides and the image is of flowers - not sure what they are meant to be, but you can see that the flowers are made up of small round details that either sit in a plant arrangement or are scattered on what might be the ground. in any case there is good use of colour, nice shadowing techniques and it deserves to be seen as a whole. I took a picture of it outside to show the colours better, but indoors I suspect it will have a warmer feel, those oranges, reds and brown will provide a warmish glow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A detail of the back of the tapestry that shows how thick the weft is. The warp is linen and a hem has been woven to enable the top and lower edges to be folded back. It looks as if the tapestry was glued(!) to something for hanging purposes which is not great, and I will be sewing on a strip of fabric to enable it to be hung with a pole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Perhaps not the greatest work of art but still a decent and robust piece and I do like the flower details a lot. I am hoping that it will continue to spread a little inspiration as I walk past it or sit and mull over what to do next. In a way it would have been nice to know who the maker was, I do not think it was necessarily a hobbyist, but it could have been I suppose. A professional would have left their mark, or perhaps someone took off the label which would have told us more.</span><br />
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LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-37842136053162262892018-02-23T06:21:00.002-08:002018-02-23T11:46:10.379-08:00Designing for felt and tapestry<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recently I have been working toward the Open Studios event in May in my local region. My studio is very cold at the moment so I have not spent that much time there, but there has been time to felt at home, and do some drawings to start thinking about composition and texture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am interested in the regenerative forces in nature - the way nature reclaims spaces, breaks through even in the hardest and most inhospitable urban environment or how plants can be dependent on what might at first seem like devastating fires to regenerate. But at the same time I am continue to interested in process and materials and I still wonder how you bring the two together. For that I look at certain artists on Youtube, who are generous with tutorials and ideas, and I am very grateful to them for the time they spend explaining things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The felt I have been making is actually more a manipulation of existing fabric - a woollen scarf I cut into pieces and added wool and silk to the surface. because the fabric was quite tightly knitted it has not picked up the felted wool to merger the materials together and currently the merino and silk fibres sit on the surface to some extent. the plan is that I will be working onto the surface with stitch and applied materials, so it won't matter and will add to the depth of the final pieces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In photographing this work the light was a bit hard coming onto the pieces so the colours are not accurate:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To work up a plan for the next steps I have started drawing some outlines of the pieces which I plan to use as 'templates' onto this which I can add textures, other colours and so on. These drawings are themselves work in progress as they are not complete in terms of colour etc, but some of them are in themselves not too bad as drawings and I may just leave them as they are. This process takes time and needs to be revisited several times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This drawing seems more of a complete drawing, various textures, marks and colours seem to balance more as a complete entity, and just suggests the felted piece - I will return to this drawing to look at how I can improve its textile sister. I don't seem to get away from a painterly type of expression.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have also been designing for tapestry. I have been interested in using oil pastels for tapestry design as my weavings are usually quite textured and the strength and weight of the colours and textures you can derive from oil pastels feel as if they would be useful. So I started a sketchbook for these designs. whenever a drawing was done there were a lot of crumbs left from the pastel and I picked these up and used them in another type of drawing which is light and is more about a mood. These may be useful sometime in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some designs may seem a little unadventurous and I think they could be livened up with some additional elements such as speckles of colour in the brown, textured weaving and the like. Certainly I would like the orange to sing against the brown and so I hope that a few tapestry samples will start showing how this effect could be developed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And finally a simple sample of my first ever weft-faced weaving on a rigid heddle loom. At my Guild we had some workshops at the January meeting and this was the option I chose - I have a rigid heddle loom which I have not yet used, and this was a bit of a taster to get a feel for what might be achievable. The sample is shown with the warp threads showing, these will be attached to the back to make the sample a bit more tidy looking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The top skein is the novelty yarn, a thin version using some left-over staples, I also made a different yarn that had much thicker staples in it. The skein below is the spun yarn from the slightly lumpy Jacobs wool. It too the dye very well and as most of it was quite course and I am not that good at spinning knitting yarn I decided that I would just spin lumps and all and then use it in tapestry weavings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's a detail of the novelty yarn. I have this thin commercial single wool yarn in blue (not sure it is indigo, but it is that sort of colour) and used it to ply with the staples of the blue-green. This was a very satisfying process and the <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> result looks and feels great, now I need to see what it is like in a weaving.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The colours in this picture do not reflect the livelier green of the actual yarn, however you can see how coarse the Jacobs is and you will see that I spun it very hard and so it is not a perfectly balanced yarn - my plying technique could be improved a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also have a fair bit of very dark alpaca. In tidying up some of my stash I unearthed even more of it, and this needs to be spun. At my Guild of weavers, spinners and dyers we had a bit of a stash-share and I got some dark brown silk noil which complements the alpaca very well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I plied these fibres in different permutations - pure alpaca and alpaca silk plied, which has created some smooth yarns with a bit of sheen. I also had some dyed silk which I spun into some of it to create interesting textures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, in September we visited Helsinki and Stockholm - both very beautiful cities and with their own particular characteristics. I have to say of the two I liked Helsinki more: it is very grand in its robust architecture, many severe, stark and brutal facades and there are rocky outcrops you stumble upon as you walk around the city. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We visited a number of museums including the Finnish National Gallery where they had an Alvar Alto exhibition on and the Suomenlinna fortress. We also visited the older parts of town walking around, falling over a small fleamarket where I bought two bound volumes of Bygmastaran from the 1940s, a Swedish architectural journal, with descriptions of good Swedish modernist housing and public authority building projects. There was time for a chamber music concert and shopping at the Stockmann department store and more shopping in an other flea market where I bought some 1970s Finnish cast metal jewellery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span>LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-78276639927247257072017-05-20T12:53:00.002-07:002017-05-20T12:53:30.332-07:00West Berkshire and North Hampshire Open Studios<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This May has been a month of exhibition and making at the Open Studios. Together with two other artists we have been showing at City Arts in Newbury, which as an old chapel has large spaces to fill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to fill the space in interesting ways the last two months or more have been spent making hangings and felt pieces. These have been hung together in a bit of an installation and I have used some tables to show other things, as well as a table for me to work at. It has all worked out well, and I have had time to do some tapestry weaving whilst there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally - a couple of bookcases have been very useful in displaying the small tapestries. I had bought some perspex stands to show them off in a gentle sort of way, and you can also see the weaving frame ready to be used with a couple of reference books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been an interesting event: the number of visitors has swung, with an increase over the bank holiday Monday, and I have been pleased that some people asked whether I give courses, which suggests that some are interested in the work. What people haven't done is bought anything. It is not a climate conducive for people to spend, and as textiles are relatively specialist I did not really expect many sales. I think people still prefer paintings or prints as primary art works for the home - textiles as decorative items are not common and my works are necessarily easy or ready for hanging. There has been a lot to learn during this last month and I am pleased to have been part of it, what will happen next year is another question and something I need to think about quite hard.</span></div>
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LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-81835602280640375912017-04-02T13:54:00.003-07:002017-04-02T13:55:37.704-07:00Penultimate course at West Dean - monoprinting<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The monoprinting course was a slightly longer course - three day - structured around a technical introduction in the morning and then a day of applying these with the occasional technical session in the afternoon. The first couple of sessions introduced water based inks and the last two days we worked with oil based inks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The course pushed us to bring in some rigour to our work - the very first session was a test of how pure a line we could achieve. Here are some examples of these lines:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And then some line drawings based on a photograph of biloba leaves. Here is the templates, which is a transparency from the photograph.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A print onto a background primed transfer of ink in grey. I modified the black ink throughout as I find it a bit harsh and the prints are quite soft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here the background was a wet monoprint with suggestions of the leaves in blue-grey tones and then the print of the leaves over this; below a detail. You can see that the edge is dark: this has come about as I left finger marks on the edge when I was holding down the paper (A4 paper on an A4 plate does not leave much for taping down the paper. I therefor used this device as a frame which has worked out quite well. The lines are quite bold and strong, perhaps a bit too think for the lacy effect of the composition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We also learned to print using organic materials such as leaves and interesting when these soft leaves stick onto the brayer they can be used to transfer ink onto a piece of paper, such as below. I am not sure whether this appeals to me - firstly I thought the leaves I used were too precise and sharp and secondly in transferring the leaf imprint I think the results are a bit too much like 'wall paper' and I think that would need some further exploration to use in interesting ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also tried some grasses but these ended up sticking to the brayer for some time and left a lot of organic debris behind that made a mess and left disturbances in subsequent prints. Clearly one has to clean brayers well if using organic matter in this way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's a detail from a better print using small leaves on blue loktah paper. In fact I printed on different papers to see how they worked, including cartridge, pastel and loktah paper. I think this latter paper was quite interesting in prints where the ink was dark and dense enough to bring up the print. A few examples left the ink too thin to show up properly and mark were faint and washed out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The drawing day was very good - Frances Hatch, Evie Hatch and the conservator Judith Wetherall all brought something valuable to the day. We had a thorough introduction to making gesso using rabbitskin glue and calcium carbonate as well as descriptions of the use of pigment in the development of paint. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We were then ready to cover pieces of heavy card, water colour paper and a piece of MDF in rabbit skin glue used as size and gesso and once this was dry by the afternoon we could then apply marks using metal, mainly silver to create silver point drawings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My sample pieces include elements incorporating textile fibres and organic matter. Here are the initial samples showing the use of pigment:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Three tests on a piece of sized card showing plain gesso, gesso with terre verde (a green pigment) and gesso binding down wool.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As mentioned, in the afternoon we tried out silverpoint using a sharpened silver wire. This is an old method to drawing, used before the pencil was developed, and in the main it leaves a fine, subtle line, which artists such as Leonardo da Vinci used. You can use a broader tool such as a spoon to create a softer mark. I am not a great drafts person and I like bold varying gestures, so this fine line effect does not sit naturally with me. I am glad I tried it, but will probably not be pursuing this technique in depth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A piece of gessoed water colour paper with gummed white and green silk fibre. I then drew with the silverpoint in lines echoing the fibre strands, and finally thin lines of rabbitskin glue with terre verde. The picture was taken in bright sunshine which cast fine shadow lines from the silk fibre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am using a knitting needle as a shed stick. As far as I can work out the largest pieces that can be created this way are around 12-13cm by 15cm or so. Not a bad size, and as you can </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">see you can do a bit of knotting (although slow as the warps cannot be pulled to far out as they then pop out of the slots provided as spacers at each end. A bit of a fiddle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A side image of the loom shows why I has trying the knotting technique here (Turkish or Ghiordes knot) - the left side used mainly a cream yarn with a little white and even less pink, while the right side shows how the same cream takes on a blueish-whiteish tinge when additional pure white and blue is added. Basically I am trying out effects and textures and seeing what different yarns do when woven into a tapestry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">One thing to say about the pictures here is that the colours are a bit paler than in real life. I photograph in the kitchen with a light that is a bit bright, but the pictures do show something of the effects:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The first one here shows four different green yarns woven in blocks, clock-wise from bottom left - a handspun two-tone wool, a handspun (acid-dyed, I think) wool, a blend of wool and cotton and finally, bottom right, a synthetic knobbly yarn that it quite soft and undefined but might be OK if mixed with more substantial yarns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next sample shows from the bottom: a strange</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> commercial rayon-cotton which has randomely placed shiny paper-like pieces projecting out of it and in the middle a soft variegated yarn which I think some may call an 'eye-lash' yarn which created a tufted surface which I like as a contrast against the flatness of the weaving around it and lastly a blend that included a brushed mohair. I liked the mohair in a different piece I made where I blended it with several strands of yarns than was possible here and I think the lustre of the mohair is a good quality to have in the weaving. And I don't mind the hairiness on the surface if it is used as an aesthetic device against flatter surfaces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here I was trying to create a soft effect thinking about some other weavers I know of, Silvia Heyden and Berit Hjelholt, both of a certain generation of weavers who learned in Germanic and Scandinavian environments. An 'old-fashioned' technique using eccentric weft of handspun synthetics, mohair, wool and so on, and again trying out blending. The waving sectional panel on the bottom half has worked well and I think I might like to try this out in other colours, perhaps as a background cover for something else at a bigger scale, and perhaps less as rows and more as sections. I think it has some potential. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I once did a course with Pat Johns who had woven these smallish samples in different techniques, including a -snakeskin- technique of her own devising. Her samples were a little larger than these, and she hadn't mounted them to let students look at the back, but I like them mounted so they look like finished pieces and still tells you quite a bit about the technique if they are not attached fully to the paper backing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The blue-brown combination in this sample was purposefully developed and I tried to graduate the blending of the blue into the brown in a subtle and gentle way. I didn't follow a formal blending recipe such as the one provided by Carol Russell, just increased the blue a little on each weft change and mostly I has worked. The centre section of a separate box with some subtle joining that can't be seen too much, so this was in the end a satisfying element. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The one thing that went wrong, and this can be seen in the bottom left hand corner, is the lack of knotting rows at the start and the end. This was intentional, to see what would happen - and as you can see the top edge (which was the bottom during weaving) behaved reasonably well when I cut the piece off and prepared the sample for finishing. Unfortunately the second edge must have been woven more loosely and when I cut it off the weave opened up. Although a learning exercise it was a shame in this case because it would have been a quite pleasing sample had it been finished properly. That is what samples are for I guess, to learn just this type of thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And finally, a sample using indigo dyed and natural wool yarns, a bit of silk yarn and lurex. I am not sure whether this shows properly on the photo, but there are a couple of areas of textural techniques, included a thickened soumak section and a few chain-stitch like lines, which in a smooth and strong Wensleydale yarn made quite soft </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'stitches'. In Silk-cotton the same stitches where flat and lifeless.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And there we are - I am now sewing on the machine and it cannot be compared to tapestry weaving for the gentleness and quietness of making. A loom is a fairly silent thing, especially a small one or a frame loom. The only sounds you hear is the yarn pulling though the warps and the beating down of the yarn using a bobbin or a fork. That is it. And you get to feel the surface, look at the colours and fibres and work out how it all fits together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A sewing machine by comparison is an aggressive thing - noisy, fiercely fast and almost has a life of its own which you need to temper purely through the pressure of your foot on the pedal. The machine lies between you and the work, and the stitching is applied, although integrated into the fabric it is not integral in the way woven weft is. Yes, I do prefer the weaving, in fact I adore it, the calm you have, the choices you can make and the freedom and tactility of it. So it won't be long until I return, but right now I need to make some large pieces fairly quickly, and that is what the machine can help me do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Throughout December until now my work has mainly been on tapestry weaving. In a previous post I showed a work in progress where I wove on a wooden block and it has turned out to be a fairly respectable piece in two parts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I should say that these blocks were quite hard to weave; I used a kebab stick as a shed tick and had to needle weave to complete the surface. When the work got to the top and the last rows had to the be woven I had to sometimes/often lift individual warps with a pointed implement to get the needle underneath - a very slow and laborious process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The warp was linen and the weft was a varying mixture and blend of all manner of handspun and commercial yarn: wool, silk, paper, linen, angora, viscose, latex covered yarn and more. I used only natural and white for one block and white-greens for the other. The greens were mainly dyed using Dylon cold water dyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were photographed in more of a studio setting and so the colours seem a bit more enhanced, but they work together and suggest plant shapes as I had planned:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Basically I have wanted to work with interlaced wrapped elements for a while so this was opportunity to try this out, and as you can see the top of the white block was a mass of interwoven </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">twisting elements.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another couple of detail images showing each side of the green-white block: Here I used some twisted wrapped elements but used more as features on the surface rather than as a mass, and on the other side I woven in a more graphic pattern partly inspired by Bauhaus type compositions, weaving it flat without any surface additions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over Christmas and into January I was working up a largish sample (26x54cm) in white tones using a mixture of handspun yarns, commercial natural and synthetic fibres. I had bought this raw silk which had a very interesting texture, quite stiff to the touch (although it went soft in handling during the weave) and I had wanted to wrap a number of warps to enable the yarn to be shown off properly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I set out to create a sample that would be big enough to be a wall hung piece and would show off the different textures of mohair, paper yarn, rayon, wool, cotton and linen, and which would provide a neutral background to the raw silk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the final tapestry, off the loom but quite finally mounted:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Close up you can see how the texture on the right works - the raw silk lies in bunches over 3-5 warps:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looped mohair was also used and I think this needs to be used sparingly if used in this sort of work, or as features in large tapestries as it projects out from the surface and can be a bit too much of a contras</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">t if the surface needs to be flat. In general I should mention that with so many different thicknesses and qualities of yarn I needed to keep an eye on how thick the weft became. Sometimes it probably got a bit too thick or thin, although overall the final piece feels fairly even. I think that you can use the density of weft to good effect in a textured tapestry and I want to explore this some more once I get onto my new loom (an old Dryad rug loom - more to follow soon).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am quite satisfied that the bunches of yarn around the warps worked as I had planned. I wonder whether you could wrap around even more warps and then use that effect in particular ways, but this would probably need a larger piece. As it is a couple of people have said that the final effect feels like fungus on trees or perhaps more like the texture of birch bark, so I am happy that the organic feel of trees has been captured in this way.</span><br />
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<br />LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-80197642600786654822017-02-01T10:15:00.001-08:002017-03-20T13:16:26.510-07:00Tapestry weaving again<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although I am working on various things in the studio, I am currently veering towards tapestry weaving at the moment. It has been the main occupation of mine this winter, partly because I decided to submit something for an exhibition and partly because I just enjoy working in this way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tapestry weaving is tremendously stimulating, whether you spend a great deal of time designing or whether you think about the process as you build up the work through weaving. In the autumn I went on a short course led by Fiona Hutchison which was very good for running through various techniques and introducing ways of thinking about tapestry weaving from a process perspective.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During that weekend I made two samples. One was an assembly of smaller elements each introducing a technique. A very useful way to explore colour and the way various yarns and fibre work together:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The warp was a multi-coloured cotton crepe, quite thin, so that I had to consider how dense to make the weft. I should say here that I am not a purist in terms of weft threads. It could be said that tapestry weaving needs to be woven using a smooth worsted wool or mohair (or some other non-elastic and tightly spun yarn) or perhaps a nettle yarn, and then only use these fibres throughout to gain a uniform work. I think this is an approach following in the tradition of gobelin weaving, however I feel closer to the experimentalists of recent decades who tested scale, texture and process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, I am less concerned about the purity of the weft: whether using weaving or knitting wool, synthetic novelty yarns, metallic or lurex or different types of braiding yarns, they can all contribute something to the texture of the weaving, and affect the way the light is reflected from the structure. I once found work by a Baltic tapestry weaver on the Web who was equally liberal in her use of different weft yarns and she made very large-scale works that looked quite spectacular. Using various different yarns in the weft does present its own problems: you have to look at how thick the different combinations of yarn work together, and I learnt on the course that hand-spun yarns may require more packing (probably because they can be loosely spun, but that depends on the original purpose of the yarn). Basically it would be difficult to achieve a smooth even surface with mixed fibre wefts. I usually combine knitting yarn with firmer yarns, linen, cotton and denser wools and this works OK. I am also exploring the possibilities of showing warp in the weave. This is something Scandinavian weavers do well, and if work was done on a very large scale the warp could potentially become a dimension of the final fabric object.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The second sample was using a single technique I had wanted to try for some time:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The sample was quite robust. Weaving loosely would not work in this case as you need to build up the weft to force the warps to space out. So I wove this using fairly thick weft elements and that feels quite good too, as in this case I could work out colour mixes along the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I mentioned that I have been working on something that would be submitted to be assessed for an exhibition. This work was something I worked on most of the holiday this winter and I have now submitted it. I can provide a brief glimpse of it here, and will add pictures of the final thing once I know whether it has been accepted:</span></div>
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LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-67948846542391358092016-10-22T05:51:00.000-07:002016-10-22T05:51:24.839-07:00Craft & Design day<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Farnham Maltings recently hosted a day of talks by craft makers and a representative of the Crafts Council on the maker's career and business development options.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was very surprised at the low attendance - it was a free event and getting to ask the Craft Council questions and hearing of opportunities for development is not that common unless you count whatever is out there on the Internet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anyway, I quite like going to Farnham, it is always worth going to the New Ashgate Gallery and getting to see how makers had developed themselves and their work was worth a visit. Some of the makers at the talk were quite far down their career paths and were experts in their fields, in glass for example. There were perspectives from makers whose work went beyond borders, to North African filigree jewellery work, and there were young people who had graduate a few years ago. All makers had some connection to the University of Creative Arts, Farnham, and there were also an opportunity to learn a bit more about their MA so I was pleased to have gone, because that is one option I have been considering for some time in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the Q&A sessions topics such as working with galleries, how to develop your skills and what you can do to move on with your career were discussed. It is interesting how there is such a gap between the people who train in art colleges and people who do craft as a hobby. When I look at what some of my Guild colleagues make and look at what professional makers do there is sometimes very little difference in quality, but I guess one of the key factors is motivation - hobbyists are not necessarily wnatign a career in their craft, they may be at a stage in their lives that making is a way of developing themselves and their creativeness, and whilst professional maker are compelled by the same or similar motivation, they seek a lifestyle that will allow them to earm a living making. Certainly at the craft day the makers talking there were more keen on their own expression than commercial compromises, although there were gentle suggestions of thinking about what market niches your work fits into.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When you are as far down your life as I am am for example, having spent a fair bit of time in education already and now working, looking at taking up full time education in the crafts or arts would be such a huge step that it would need serious thought. But, working full time also means that developing your level of skill takes so much longer, and the benefit of being in a nurturing environment such as an art college, with all the materials and technology in easy reach are missing. Developing a critical slant to your work that is also enabling is difficult to establish when you work by yourself, and perhaps that best thing to do is to find some groups to join that are at the level or even just beyond the level you aspire to be at. At least there would be a social network behind your work, and as one of the speakers explained, being in a groups harnesses resources and helps get exhibitions and so on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So there was a fair bit to inspire further thought, and also some pictures of fine works that the makers had made that were shared with us on the day. I try to find out as much as I can about cultures of making and getting a view form the insight of how to develop your professional life in the arts, and this day was a good introduction to some of the issues that arise on your way if choose that way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For the 6th course I chose to do a knotted tapestry course with <a href="http://www.annejackson.co.uk/" target="_blank">Anne Jackson</a>. Anne is a tapestry maker who uses a <a href="http://austintapestry.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/anne-jackson-knotting-workshop.html" target="_blank">knotting technique </a>rather than weaving, which allows her to create uneven outlines as she does not use a loom, but confines her grid to a series of warp threads onto which the knots sit. This creates a flexible way to build up the work and even allows for 3D shaping, which I had a go at towards the end of the course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A knotted tapestry technique sits well with the experimental textiles that I use at the core of all my work, and as I am hoping that one day there will possibilities to work <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at a large scale</span>, this is a way to think about sc<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">al</span>e and volume<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">;</span> even worked small this knotted technique is useful, as it can suggest shapes that are expandable and it could be us<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ef<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ul in</span></span> creat<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ing</span> maquettes, I think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had brought some drawings to work from and interestingly there were different schools of thought on how to use the original drawing as a guide for the work: someone suggested using the traditional way of developing a cartoon from the drawing using tracing paper and focussing on the key elements<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,</span> having the drawing as a colour guide on the side; others favoured using the drawing directly under the work as guide for design as well as for colour choice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I tried both: first using the drawing under the work, then later swapping the drawing for a tracing. As my drawing is quite complex I think in this particular case the tracing was probably the best way to work through the design, as I could examine the colour study more closely separately. It may be that when drawings are simpler and if colours were studied in more depth over longer time bet<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ween the drawign and the yarns</span>, then using the drawing directly in the knotting process could be a real option.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you can see the technique requires you to use robust pins to hold the warp and certain knots in place, and the other thing that separates this technique from tapestry in the gobelin/Aubusson sense is the way the knots work - you have to simplify the design quite a lot, lines become quite chunky, and would probably work better in large scale works. Also, the work builds up from the top down, rather than being built up from the bottom up as in weaving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also worked on a small sample to develop a 3D piece to see who you can <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">develop</span> a more sculptural shape:</span></div>
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<br />LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-63701767312971735932016-09-06T13:46:00.001-07:002016-09-06T13:48:08.430-07:00West Dean 5th course - Intuitive drawing<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So, it has been a while since I did a course at West Dean and in late August I attended the 5th course in my series of 10. Half way through, and having looked back at soem of my work for the OCA I have to say I think the work is improving, and going to West Dean somehow gives you permission to think in a focussed way about what is happening with the work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We each got a table and an easel and he pointed out that we could think about how we want to work - at three levels: on the table, on an easel or on the floor. I tried all three and they each gave something different to how the work developed: in the table or floor your pour ink, on the easel you can sit back and really look at the work as it progresses.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is my table and bit of the floor with work in progress in sketchbooks and on paper (drying where ink or oil bar was applied):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Surprisingly I tried to keep tidy, as the space on the table was quite limited. We were mostly working on A1 or A2/A3 depending on whether finished work was being made, or test pieces to try out techniques were being made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 'intuitive' bit in the title suggested we were going to work with Dada automatic drawing, which we did do on the first day, but after that we simply worked very freely with the new techniques being taught. He did mention the idea of the exquisite corpse drawing and I read in the course description that we would be sharing work, but in the end we didn't do much of that, and just got on with our indendent work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I used up paints in mt sketchbook, used collage and added to some books I had brought that needed to be thought about in a drawing sort of way. The tutor gave some very valuable feedback for the FDAD side of things, so overall it was a helpful and valuable course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A lot of the work was done in black and white, but I did use some of my XL graphite as it leant itslef well to the large scale of the work and sits well with the charcoal and ink,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These long coloured things are the concertina books I had brought from home to add to - I have also started stitching on them, so this brief piece of work was just to add a bit of texture in paper or paint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A drawing based on the moon's light that looks better in reality - the black sugar paper is already greyish, but looks even more so here.</span><br />
<br />LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-78338402093272955882016-08-07T01:52:00.003-07:002016-08-07T01:52:59.912-07:00A collagraph course<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There is a relatively new arts venue in Newbury, <a href="https://cityartsnewbury.co.uk/" target="_blank">City Arts</a>, that offers art courses. Last week a three day workshop working on collagraphs took place, and I managed to get on it at short notice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Over three days we were introduced to the technique, made a series of plates practicing textures and trying to make 'finished' designs and printing, using proper printing presses. on Youtube people show collagraphs being printed pressing by hand, but they work with plates carrying very heavy relief panels weheras this workshop used a more shallow relief. So, the mark making included cutting into the plate, removing the surface of the card plate and adding materials. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can see various materials: sandpaper, textured wall paper, sawdust, nylon lace and so on. My plate in the middle, bottom was a practive plate with these materials to see what prints they would leave. I was interested to learn that you can 'draw' with glue, and any hard pressing of pens mark the surafce of plate that can also bring out the ink. Very interesting and so exciting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the left you can see my very first attempt at printing using the sampling plate. I put too little ink on and/or wiped too much of it off. On the right is a pinkish print where I used straws of grass as a relief device and they worked very well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was a very good workshop and we printed a lot of prints. The ink is still drying 3-4 days after printing, which is quite a long drying time, and I am getting a bit impatient for these prints to be ready. Nevertheless when they are ready they will mostly be good prints and once franed they will look complete and finished. I enjoyed the whole experience and will perhaps do some myself one day, as the prints may also be helpful in thinking about design.</span><br />
LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-65743832816342048202016-07-25T14:22:00.001-07:002016-08-04T23:50:44.883-07:00Printing and dyeing<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Usually I lean toward constructed textiles as my main means of expression and there are several techniques such as tapestry weaving, knitting and felting that I find most stimulating. These techniques can be quite slow and thinking about designing using these techniques needs a wider exploration of design and art sources. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To enhance my design sources I thought I might explore monotype development a bit more. Since I did some 'monoprinting' for the OCA course, I have thought about it quite a bit and have explored certain artists and web-sites - and of course Youtube to learn more about the possibilities of the technique. And so I found that Paul Klee used the monotype to imprint lines to enable him to create tonal areas around his printed defined lines. Other artists such as Degas used the monotype a lot in a painterly way (I am not going to discuss the difference between the 'monoprint' and the 'monotype', it doesn't sound like a great difference in any case, but if you are a purist it might be worth looking at some web-sites that will explain it from a technical perspective), and certain quilting designers use 'monoprinting' as a printing techniques to enable them to create unique patterns or images. At West Dean College a class on monoprinting was oing on when I was a different course and I thought they showed great variety and inventiveness in their work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I said in a previous post that the lower parts of a boat, the outer sides of the hull, can reveal interesting marks that develop from the patina and scratches that touch the painted surface. I found a boat in a marina that had a very good blue surface (in fact, these three images may not be from the same boat, but I don't remember now how many boats I looked at - it wasn't many, perhaps 2 or 3):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As you can see the marks are varied, from broad volumes of colour to lines and a sort of mottled dottedness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And so it is with the monoprinting technique - it is a free way of using paint or ink to create unique prints. Although you can print a 'ghost' print from whatever paint is left on the plate, the print you first take from the design you lay down on the plate (glass, acrylic or some other flat clearish surface) is the only print you can achieve.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That way of working suits me quite well. I work intuitively and freely and like to work exploratively. I got myself a couple of acrylic sheets of different sizes and have an old glass fridge shelf that is useful as a plate. As I am a novice at this I am not expecting miracles on these first forays into printing and I am not using ink, so have had to experiment in making acrylic dry a bit more slowly using glycerol. This is probably not ideal but will do until I decide this is definitely something I want to continue to work with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And so for the results - I am satisfied that using acrylic paint can be used to print on paper and on textiles. I printed on bits of old white sheets, and will move onto dyed cotton and other materials at some point. I think the prints on paper, especially the ghost prints, lend themselves to being drawn over, or added to in some way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> In this photo you can see a part of a ghost print. It does not show up any details, no lines or scratch marks, but just soft suggestions of colour. I think I may overprint this piece next time I get the paint out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have also spent a great deal of time dyeing. There has been vegetable dyeing with ash and walnut wood, ivy (which was not a good colour), lichen and ragwort which gave a bright yellow, but I am not sure how colourfast this is. As you might know, I also did some synthetic dyeing and some of that was tie-dyed to create pattern:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been reading </span><span class="st"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Claire Wellesley-Smith's book, <i>Slow Stitch</i>, and wonder about simplicity and care. She represents the idea of slow craft can be ecologically sound, healthy for the individual and communities as a social bridge, and her work is very simple using the most basic of stitches, mainly running stitch. My work might benefit from some of this awareness of quietude and I will ponder this some more as I read more.</span></span><br />
LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-85124165198810097172016-07-25T12:11:00.001-07:002016-07-27T12:21:47.777-07:00Recent holiday to Germany <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has been while since I have written about something of interest. Not because there was nothing to tell, but because time is passing with busy things to do, both at the weekends and after work - vegetable dyeing, acid dyeing, knitting and felting. So for now I will add a few images from a holiday we had to Germany in June. We went to Hamburg and Lübeck. Both cities are great for different reasons: Hamburg is a big vibrant city, with fine museums, a large river, the Elbe, and an interesting history. Lübeck is a smaller city with an ancient city centre on an island in a river, the Trave, with many, many churches and great old buildings. We also spent a period further north and went for walks on the coast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I should say that I don't take many long view photos of cities as I always feel that they look flat when I get home, and by focussing instead on particular details you can find new interesting things that may be useful for future art work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have been to Hamburg before and have done some touristic things like sailing on the Binnen Alster boat that gives you views of the city from the large lake in the city centre, whilst this time we returned to the Kunsthalle and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">T</span>his time we went for a walk to parts we hadn't explored before and found some amazing architecture to explore - Chilehaus and the building that houses chocolate museum (which we did not visit), both lie in the Speichertsadt, which also includes canals and warehouses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's a detail of the Chile Haus - a solid dark bricked building with a jagged sharp-edged facade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The building opposite was softer with a curved facade running along the road and sculpture by Lothar Fische<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">r:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Near the historic office distric which is now a Unesco world heritage site the old warehouse buildings sitting next to the canals still look grand. I am guessing that many facades somehow stayed standing even after the bombing of WWII as the walls and brickwork looked old and not at all 'renovated' and some looked quite run down, although other are clearly now being used as trendy techie offices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And on the way to the Kunsthalle we came across a grand building that must have been an important building as a kind of providential society or other:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Kunsthalle was sh<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ow</span>ing a temporary exhibition of Manet's work, which was good, with many small works and interesting connections made to for examle Ber<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the Morisot</span>, and then we went around finding things that might inspire - this time I concentrated on the modern collections and was happy to find work by Gerhard Richter, Robert Morris - a very impressive piece of felt folding down by force of its own weight - and a white painting by Robert Ryman. Then on to the historical collections to see the German impressionists including Lovis Conrinth, and a room dedicated to Caspar David Friedrich, whose work I never tire of looking at. They also have fine modern art including a fish by P<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a</span>ul Klee I like and next to a Giacometti <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sculpture they had a painting by him<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to again ma<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ke connections I guess of influ<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ences a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nd how stylistic characteristics e<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cho across media and disciplines</span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We took a boat trip this time as well - but on the Elbe - along a couple of canals and then out onto the river proper to see the port. A huge place, with ship building, repairing and all manner of freight and blossoming culture. I did not take too many long views, but looked at the side of the canals and the concrete walls running along the river in places, some conceret decaying:</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paint work on boats can be very painterly.... but it also so very available and visible, it is almost ubiquitous in harbours and in old yards of different types. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And the seaside always have wonderful things to look at and touch and pick up -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A dried up section of orange:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On a ferry we took, some thi<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">c</span>k rope - which is a great source for thinking about thick textile objects:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And lovely seaweed floating in the water:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And there was also a day trip to Schloss Gottorf on the outskirts of Schleswig: a large castle on an island with great collections acorss the full spectrum of human culture - achaeological collections, including the Nydam Boat, historical collections, decorative arts (a set of Jugendstil gallery and a brilliant modern art collection, with expressionist work based on a collection, Sammlung Rolf Horn. There was so much to see you couldn't possibly see it all, so I concentrated on the most important things that I thought might inspire my own work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the way to Schleswig we stopped by the Dannevirke wall, which is a Viking-medievan earth work which was built to protect the Norther lands from certain tribes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a small informative museum narrating the history of the building and the archaeology of the site. Some sections were also used by the Danish army during the war with Prussia in the 19th century - a real gem. If we had had more time there could have been a good walk along the wall, but we were headed to Schloss Gottorf, and that was itself a gem of a place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The city is very beautiful, there are many old buildings and many churches to visit. Again we had been to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lübeck before, but that was to go to the Christmas market several years ago, and new museums have opened since then, and and there was plenty <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to do in the s<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ummer sun.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We also visited the St Marien<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">kirche, which is where <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">JS Bach went to lea<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rn organ music with the local organist<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. This church is very grand with <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">large areas of </span>reproduction </span></span></span></span>medieval mural<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s. It is also a very beautiful place. In one corner the churchbells which fell during the bombings of WWII have been left with a candle as a reminder<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of peace and reconciliation:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Oh, and then there is the occasional piece of functional street furniture that is worth a mention, like this great door handle-cum-door lock:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As usual I took many photographs and will probably use some of them in the future, but just to end this short story of my visit I will add one on a rococo ceiling detail from a museum:</span><br />
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LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-45646645465094504722016-05-29T11:12:00.000-07:002016-07-20T11:28:29.978-07:00Drawing course and drawing day<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Part of the FDAD (Foundation Diploma in Art and Design) course is the understanding that we will do at least three drawing courses. The College also offer drawing days for FDAD students and they can be very good. This post will cover the drawing course I did recently and a drawing day that followed on very soon after that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The drawing day I did was run by a tutor whose work has a surrealist and humouristic bent. It was aimed at intermediate to advanced drawing levels, so I guess I probably was not quite there in terms of the expected level of drawing, however I did get something out of it and so it was still useful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first day and a half there were a number of exercises to look at different ways of working with drawing. This included different levels of looking at a still life, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">self portraits and </span>mark making based on sensory memory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are some of the drawings I did based on some of these exercises:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These practices were OK - there was much to absorb and consider, but the key thing that was useful for me, was the fact that you can make your own drawing books/sketchbooks, and an exercise where a detail was drawn and then greater levels of context were added from that foundation study in second and third drawings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the last day we were then asked to create our own project based on the ideas of 'collections'. This concept can mean many things, but I kept it simple and chose 'winged creatures' from objects or paintings that can be found around the house, using the three step increasing context studies. Henece this was meant to be a series of images of winged beasts - there are plenty of puttis, eagles, a buttlerfly and stuffed birds to choose from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I chose to first draw a putti from a tapestry (the lower set of drawings):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here I was trying to capture the weave of the tapestry, then the putti's wing, and further then the wing attached to the putti. I used watersoluble pencil. The tutor suggested I should vary the marks more, ensure there was more space for the eye to rest and to create more block coloured areas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I agree that my drawings often only use a particular level of line, and that is probably due to the untrained nature of my skill level, but I did not feel comfortable with the idea of using ink or some other strong colour to create a block of colour in the background. I need to think about how this would work in practice, with different types of motif, for example in a still life where there may be a more natural way to place the central concern in a flat background. To me the tapestry was already quite flat and uniform - it is a faded thing with little colour variation as the contrasts have reduced over the centuries, and the woven texture of the weaving also plays its part in creating a generalised sameness across the surface. I guess what the tutor was getting at was to create a stronger focus by blocking out blandness in some areas and leaving the central motif as a stronger concern, and I think that I need to train this if I need to in the future. It depends on the topic and purpose of the image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next drawing was of a putti in gold on a rococo clock:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a stronger drawing, the putti is reasonably complete - in fact I think I have captured the twist in its body fairly reasonably, so maybe the life drawing classes I am doing are teaching me something(!) Anyway, I spent so much time on the putti I was running out of time in the morning before coffee, and this led to speedier drawings of the clock itself and the clock shown on the wall. You can just about see some legs and a skirt of a pastoral scene of a woman and a man on the top of the clock, but in any case I tried to capture the rocaille swirls that were going on around the clock overall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I think together as a series the three drawings work well - they use the same colours and the twists and swirls of the clock's ornament are present in all three drawings making the story of three a fairly cohesive thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, after morning coffee I was tired and was a bit bored with drawing whole figures, as it is a large effort and time was limited. I had borrowed a book on Anselm Kiefer's work which reminded me of his winged sculptures and drawings, and as I had already been working on wings the evening before it felt natural to also continue with studies of wings from a painting of a swan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are the wing drawings I did in the evening - I tend towards making things painterly, but the bolder wings on the top line are more open and loose and were just about playing with the idea of wings:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> And these are the wings based on a painting of a swan's wing:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The ink blots at the top were quickly developed the evening before as there was a fair bit of ink left from the day's work which would otherwise have gone down the drain. I tried to control it a bit and then drew over them to make them into 'wings'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was quite satisfied with the outcomes of the course, I liked some of the exercises and will take them with me to things I will do in the future. I still think I need to practice a lot and will need to build more drawing work into my everyday work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The idea behind the drawing day is to provide FDAD students with an opportunit to use the College, its grounds and the exercises or themes provided by the tutor at the start of the day, with finishing show and tells at the end of the day. The first drawing day I attended was OK, but nothing great to report on, and I have already written about the tutorial I had on the day which was very good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Recently though, I attended a second drawing day and that was very good. We started with a mindfulness exercise, a nature study and then set out to do our work work. I first wandered outside to do some drawing at the back of the house looking at flowers and trees - which really is an obvious thing to do at West Dean when you walk about the garden:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Top: the nature study using glue to paste bits from nature onto the page before drawing onto it looking at details - here grasses and weedy flowers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bottom: some of the studies of buttercups and other weeds, on the left a tree trunk drawn using the coloured jouices from plants:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then during the day I made a series of small books mainly using 'mark making' - stamping, painting, scribbling using watercolour, graphite, ink pen - this felt good, I didn't think much about it, but it had a similar feel to the book I made on Cas Homes' course, and some of them came out quite successfully as whole, complete singular things in themselves, not bad for books made by other people's waste paper pulled out of the bin:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The top one was really a collection of small natural stuff glued in a painted over, using the weed/plant itself as a paintbrush and a <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fr<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ottage</span></span> of a couple of grass types, the middle one is a practice in placements of different types of material in a collagey type set-up and the bottom one was a quick and dirty practice, trying to work more simply by limiting the colour used to two - blue and red.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here a detail of these books:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I made another small study in containing colour use: I tend to always use a lot of colour, and am not good at simplifying things, so with the paper already slightly marked with charcoal smudges and marks, I used only red, a tiny little bit of blue, and an organge strip of tissue paper. I stuck on fallen petals from flowers in the dining room: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The book at the bottom is another study of texture, which is a bit of ripped piece of a woven materials bag and glued-on petals from potted plants in the quadrangle. This was to contra<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s</span>t the organic and the man made, the soft whites on coffee-stained paper, with the hard black of the plastic weave, that had been softened in its ripped state. I am pretty satisfied with this piece and may try to use it for a textile piece in some way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The reason I wanted to see the Hilma af Klint exhition was that curators frequently claim that she was at the forefront of abstraction, and having bought a catalogue of an exhibition that was shown in Hamburg in 2013, I throught it would be good to see the work in the flesh - to see the works in full scale to see how she had applied the pint and worked out her compositions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There is an excellent documentary about Hilma af Klint on Youtube. In it the curator claims af Klint as an abstract artist working before and at the same time as Kandinsky and Malevich. There is a suggestion that she was somehow written out of the modern art cannon because she was a woman. However I have some reservations about this reading of her art. The curatorial discourse does not hide af Klint's deep interest in spiritualism and Theosophy and it is from these spiritual roots that her work arises first. The catalogue I have shows work by an American spiritual artist, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/05/spiritualist-artist-georgiana-houghton-uk-exhibition-courtauld" target="_blank">Georgiana Houghton</a>, who also worked with abstract scrolling and wavy loops in her work, using many different colours and some representational elements. She worked in the 1860s, so even earlier than af Klint. Basically both were committed spiritualists and their work was channeled by them as mediums.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And I think that is what makes their work different from the 'grand masters' of Modernism. As far as I understand it, Modernism was about seeing things in radically different ways , challenging historicism and trying to find a new language for art, where non-representation and elemental forms were crucial. And this was often accompanied by a political stance to society. If, as af Klint, you are making art works that speak about a spiritual life of esoteric spirit, and add text to create a view of spiritual and religious life then this is something different. I didn't see any hints of any way that af Klint was working out abstraction in these terms. Her work was definitely 'abstract', but this was in the context of her belief system. In a small annex to the main gallery there were some small drawings of circular designs. In Swedish (af Klint's native language) each drawing was described according to various religion's relationships to certain concepts such as 'image of God' and so on. And nowhere had a curator attenpted to describe this or interpret what might be going on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This left me with a distinct feeling that reclaiming af Klint's abstraction as a missing 'link' somehow in the history of Modernist abstraction is a bit of an art historical contrivance. I enjoyed af klints doodle-like large paintings. There was much to reflect on in relation to how this work was informed by a (possibly) particular woman's sensitivity, but I think this work should be seen as part of that line of work - through spiritualism and Theosophy - and perhap think about Mondrian in that connection (rather than Kandinsky).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After this we went to the Victoria & Albert Museum. This is a great museum and on this occassion I went to the jewelry and the tapestry galleries. The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries are always worth a visit, the colours fine, the stories interesting, and this time there was a Morris & Co tapestry with some designs by Phillip Webb drawings hanging near by showing the designs for the weaving. Very good and always inspiring - and of course the jewelry was equally fine - some great pieces of interesting designs. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A textile exhibition</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also managed to sqeeze in a visit to the</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/world-ikat-textiles/" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">World Ikat Textiles...ties that bind</span></i></a> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">exhibition at SOAS, University College London. This was an e<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">x<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cellent exhib<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ition, showing i<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">kat weaves from many different nations<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and continents including Japan, China, India, Th<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ailand, Africa and other countries of the Far East<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and South America. There were shawls and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">g</span>arments<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - both old and contemporary.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The European examples w<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ere mainly 18th century used in dresses and <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">accessories, these were not as stron<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">g in their designs as some of the finer ones from Africa or Japan for example<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, which were some of my fa<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">vo<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">urites. </span></span></span></span></span></span>The breadth of the items on show showed different uses of dye, whether printed or dipped warps and wefts, single ikat<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and double ikat weaves.</span></span></span> The recent weaves included works made in <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thailand d<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">esigned by young designers in an effort to keep the traditional craft alive. They were long beautiful runs of large bold circles and other elemental shapes <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in pure colours and others in finely g<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ra</span>ded muted colours. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was a<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">lso a film showing <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ikat <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">preparation and weaving in progress</span>, as well as weavers f<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rom India weaving <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">on a large loom in the gallery, and people could stop and discuss the work as it <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">progresses.</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The exhibition runs until the 25th June and is well worth a visit if you enjoy textiles. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span>LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-75647231892850937312016-05-12T13:20:00.000-07:002016-05-30T10:43:30.158-07:00First tutorial on the FDAD at West Dean<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I thought I would share a couple of things that was said during my first tutorial. On the Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at West Dean you get two tutorials. I had planned to have done four courses before my frst tutorial but having swapped a course I have only done three and a drawing day, which coincided with the tutorial day. In the end I decided that it might be good to have a tutorial at the start and maybe have the other at the end, and if need be I could pay a bit and get a third somewhere in the middle of the course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You get one hour with one of the art tutors and are asked to bring some work for discussion. I saw a tutor who is a print maker. He is interested in a variety of things and was keen to discuss anything that I showed him. I brought my computer to show him the things I had done at West Dean so far, and I brought a couple of sketchbooks from OCA to discuss approaches. This included the box of bits that I had done as part of the sketchbook which I had been quite satified with, but which my OCA tutor had not commented on. So, in short, a variety of things that might trigger conversation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, I found the tutor positive and interested, and he had several suggestions for my continuing work and artists to study. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">His first impressions were interesting:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: black; line-height: 107%;">Although purposefully placing herself within the
sphere of constructed textiles, Lorna is operating akin to a sculptor that has
a painters’ feel too. This is very healthy and can only benefit her approach to
making in general. She has very eclectic research material and is open to
possibilities offered by materials, techniques and outside influences. This,
again, is an excellent creative habit to continue with and I suggest keeping
this intensity of research/sketchbook going.</span></span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: black; line-height: 107%;">Michael Brennand-Wood had said I used 'gestural marks', and here was a perspective that suggested some of my work is sculptural. This is encouraging as I have been thinking about free-hanging and voluminous making, and it also fits in well with my process approach. I asked him about 'voice' and he said I had this already.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: black; line-height: 107%;">On my sketchbook box of different elements he said:</span></span></span><br />
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<![endif]--><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Consider working in a vein similar to the sequences
made for your OCA course - A4 pieces (hundreds of them!) that can have small
gestures applied in small yet significant moments. Over time these will build
into a concrete body of work. Whilst working towards an open studio next year
is a positive goal, don't pre-empt what it is you could be showing. Consider
hanging different/ important work (made on Cas Holmes’ course) in studio to
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LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-13159607610303457002016-05-08T14:11:00.002-07:002016-06-26T01:39:09.377-07:00Dyeing and more preparation<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So, you could say that instead of making I have been diverted into preparing. Whilst tidying up I came across a bunch of cold water dyes that were just waiting to be used. And, having bought a bundle of sheets and having also found some nettle yarn I bought some time ago, I have o<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ver</span> the last 6 weeks or so been dyeing all manner of fibres (but just not wool).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am here just showing a small collection of fibre and fabric that is now ready for using in some interesting projects (the light on our kitchen is a bit bright, so the colours are over-exposed, in reality they are richer than is visible here):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is mainly nettle yarn, coarse linen and some fine viscose weaving yarn. The dominant colour here is a rusty red.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is some more nettle yarn, but also some very shiny rayon croche yarn. I was also given a linen table cloth with lace corners from Denmark. Unfortunately I am not sure about the turqoise colour I gave it, so I am hoping that another colour will come along and I can over-dye it to cool down the brightness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And finally from this batch: some hessian, silk, cotton fabric and cheesecloth, as well as cotton perle croche yarn. The dye works on all these different fibres, mainly cellulose, but for some reason silk also takes the dye well. Although you may think I only dyed a couple of baths, there are also greens, blues, yellows, oranges and reds in my stash now. I think these dyes are really very good - you can over-dye and changes hues, make bold, true colours on white bases or add fabrics/fibres later in the immersion to make paler notes, which is handy, especially if you want to make a set of different toned threads for a particular project. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here are some more fab<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ric pieces in <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">linen dam<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ask, cotton and a cotton-linen mix:</span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The tones were pale blues (the dye was called Moon Blue) - this was a very nice colour, it has a certain luminosity and lightness and will be good without too much layering of stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although the next picture shows greens, it does not do justice to the variety of fairly solid deep greens on cotton and linen threads: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There was also an orange coloured dye (Mandarin) that was so much sharper than I thought it would be. It worked well on cotton and will be useful in small amounts for bringing interest and focus to pieces: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are no longer any obvious dye pots lying in wait in a box somewhere, and so there is unlikely to be any diversions in that direction for a while. In fact, my landlady at the studio sold me some amazing large pieces of canvas she had dyed, which I want to do some applique and embroidery on, so now it is time to do some designing and thinking about making. I am planning to use some of these dyed pieces as part of that work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have also been preparing knitted fabrics for sampling for other projects. I got this knitting machine and have had trouble understanding how to cast on, but eventually I discovered, when reading the manual again, that I had placed the needles in the wrong position(!) - Once you do get started the knitting progresses very quickly which delights my impatient side. Soon it will be time to start working on this knitting, I am quite looking forward to that stage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the end I guess all this preparation will be good for something - it is the basis for the work to come, weaving felting and embroidery. Alongside this I continue to go to West Dean and there has been some encouraging feedback from tutors there that has made me think of what I am doing, how the work is expressed and what I may do in the longer term. I am glad I am doing that diploma, although quite precious it is a treat and helpful - speaking to other students can be quite enlightening and give helpful pointers. For example, I went on a drawing day and someone there was finishing her diploma; she had brought in her portfolio of work fro the full set of courses she had done. She was already trained in art, so her work was very good, but she was also a teacher and asked perceptive questions and gave pointers in discussions - helpful and interesting, stimulating to learn in this way.</span>LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892092095011430325.post-6466240462877114932016-03-28T04:04:00.000-07:002016-04-07T05:21:20.414-07:00Starting life drawing and felting<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">t</span>he two are obviously not directly linked: life drawing is a way for me to learn to look properly, get proportions right and to do something art related that isn't directly textile related. Felting is at the moment at the sampling stage to understand how different wools work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">First the life drawing: I did some as an absolute beginner in 1990 and have done nothing like that since<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> so am still<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a beginner.</span></span> This means that I am pretty terrified at the prospect of trying to draw the body, getting things wrong and so on. And of course my first drawings in the first class were wonky, out of proportion and not confident at all. The tutor was very helpful and she suggested ways of looking and marking up elements of the body to enable an appropriate set of reference points to get the drawing straight. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's an emb<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">arrasingly</span> wonky pose just to give you an idea of how un-confident I am, it is drawn with pencil, so the lines are a bit feint:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The very last drawing was the hardest. For some reason I got the worst possible position - an extremely foreshortened perspective with the model lying with the crown of her head towards me and her right shoulder uppermost. Needless to say I had no idea how to get that shoulder right, and the tutor adjusted things a bit for me. However I am happy enough with the result to show it here,although it is obviousl<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a weak drawign made by a learner</span></span>. The legs and the twisted body bits of her lower section are mine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And now to the felt. I am pretty happy with the set-up in my studio, the table is big enough to take a large piece of fabric and wool and I have space for moving along the length of the table. So I laid out some pure white wool on a loosely woven wool fabric with a bit of colour to create interest and a bit of very hairy wool in places to create texture. But oh dear, the white wool has clearly been treated and doesn't felt and the creamy hairy wool is heavy on lanolin and so felting has been inconsistent with only the coloured merino properly taking. A lot of the wool has lifted and I need to remedy this first stab - and that on a very <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">l</span>arge 'sample'!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This picture is deceiving - it suggests the felting is working, but I am going to have to change the whole thing radically to get the wool to catch the base fabric. You can see I have been using a plastic holder to aid the felting. Someone advised me that the plastic holders that meats come in from the supermarket are useful for this and it is. You can keep your hands soap-and-water free during the felting which is useful if you, like me, easily get dry hands and split skin from the soap. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">W</span>ell, it is probably better that I add wool to the unfinished peice, the thing is a bit thin and I would like a bit of substance to it. More pictures<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> to follow w<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hen it has been finished.</span></span></span>LGoldsmithtextilearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00595632182088551731noreply@blogger.com0