Archive Collection - week 6

On the sixth week of the unit, I have continued manipulating my drawings onto the fabric.

My drawing at the bottom and my fabric sample at the top.

Especially with this sample, I think I have more concentrate on the composition of patterns and bright colours. Also, I think, I know how I can work with Jukie, domestic Bernina, embellisher and pfaff machine altogether, which allows me to create a mixed media effect on my samples as every machine and every domestic machine foot perform a different stitch onto the fabric. Moreover, I think the only thing, which I need to focus in this style is to know which machine or foot I need to use first in order to stand out the texture of a stitch. 

In addition, in the Monday drawing sessions, we were asked to place things in different proportions to create drawings by observing it from different angles. Examples are shown down below;

The proportion of different objects from Monday drawing session.

Also, I have attended the drop in session with Karina Thompson, where she gave some feedback about my work, she suggested me some key things which are down below; 

• I should try distressing the fabric which can inspire my line marks in my drawings.
• I should make more out of the time, as my samples were less in quantity and my drawings as well.
• I should spend 5 minutes every day to plan what I need to do in a day.

Distressed Cotton muslin fabric

I did try distressing the fabric, which I did not really like doing for this project and it was looking really different from my other samples as shown in the image on the left; 

It actually looks nice, but in this piece, I was losing the quality of the fabric, therefore I stopped using this technique.

However, I got another idea of creating the same texture by creating the ruffle texture as shown down below; 

Manipulating the fabric

I really like the way, this technique has turned out because it has a bit of 3D effect on the fabric and a movement on the fabric. Therefore i might be taking this technique further more in this project.