sampling,sampling,sampling

I continued to experiment with my sampling by combining techniques together. This was to extend on my learning as see what techniques work best with one another and how each one can create different textures and add to colour ways.

I played around with adding in accent/strong colours to highlight areas and textures. The orange embroidery thread is of french knots so an area is covered in 'little bobbles' which is really interesting against the flat surface of machine embroidery. I really like using striking colours as it adds definition and draws the eye in!

I have also been playing around with creating feathery textures. Here i have filled in the negative space with little circles stitched in the middle to secure them so they can hang naturally. I used a variety of fabrics to create an array of colour. The paler fabric is printed using the background print of the sample, which then creates a further contrast as the shapes become distorted.

I have also had fun playing with colour again. I used ice-cream colours like pale pink, turquoise and candy yellow and made it vibrant by adding a rich pink red that i dyed using dyrect dyes. This accentuates the colours and highlights the fact that they are very pale, surrounded by the array of feathered textures, some of the machine embroidery detail is lost amongst it all. Which in itself i quite like as it's like another layer to the piece, something of which i have focused on!

As part of creating layers i used the negative pieces of fabric from where i had cut the circles i overlayed this onto some pre-printed fabric to create large circles flat on the fabric,whilst the gaps reveal the bottom layer. In my tutorial, Grainne said i should start to cut out of the fabrics to create transparency and layers; i feel as if i have had fun representing this within my work and it has also allowed me to make the most of my materials!

I finally finished this duck embroidery drawing. I used the devore fabric to create the ducks feathers and pleated them to create feathery textures. It was very delicate and fine, so the pleats aren't very defined which is quite nice as to me they look soft and light.

In my tutorial a thing i noticed was that Grainne started to place all of these drawings together in different compositions,and tryed it myself. You do see something different when they are all placed together. I see an array of textures and colours, and they are of similiar images but all made using different techniques which shows how different each piece can become. I do like my little duck/swan drawings and will give them to my family when they come back from assessment!