Thoughts

Whilst thinking and investigating light and tone. I was standing outside the workshop where I noticed the way the light was falling on the building opposite me, I quickly snapped a photo on my phone to document this moment. I loved the shapes created by the light and how it reflected upon the architecture of its canvas.

Knitting

After developing my colour pallet, I then went on to use my selected yarns within the knitting workshop. Using a variety of techniques, I experimented with ways and means of reflecting my images in the knitted samples.

Yarn wrap and a few preliminary samples using fair isle, E-wrapping and lace holes.

Colours

After I began to develop a new colour pallet, I completed further colour stripes to help inform me of the colours that I wanted to use within my project. I did 4 stripes to help me decided which colours and the proportions of colours that I will use.

Tulip Farm

I stumbled across this image through a link on Facebook and it remind me of knitted lines and some of the samples that I have been producing during knit. The image is of a tulip farm in the Netherlands. I love the bold colours and there is even a field that contains colours similar to my project. I enjoy how this shows a different yet huge scale way of using colour and how effective and important it is.

Mood Board

I have created this mood board, to help me develop my colour pallet and thing about the images that i am looking at further. This will help me in my knitting and weaving workshops to develop strong samples as well as organising in my mind what colours I want to include in my project. 

Journeys

I began to photograph my day to day activities to generate ideas for the Journeys brief. Walking down Oxford Road on the 16th October 2012, I was photographing the architecture as the sun began to set. The change in light and colour inspired me to continue this theme further.

These photographs show as I left my flat, the sun was setting but the contrast in light and dark hadn't fully set in.

I love the contrast that is best shown in these photographs. I have a Digital SLR camera, and i tend to use the intelligent automatic setting. The camera adjusted itself to the night setting halfway through the journey. These photographs show what happened as the light levels outside darkened. I love the pallet in these photographs as although this was only taken a few minutes after the previous the change in setting is huge.

Knitting Research

As I started using the knit workshop I began to look into two books;The Art of Knitting and KnitKnit by Sabrina Gschwandtner.

I created sketches of some of the examples that I found to be particularly inspirational within my sketchbook. The original photographs and samples were created and photographed by Francoise Tellier-Loumagne.

Liverpool Bienniel

After visiting Liverpool, I used my sketches and photographs, to draw selections of what I had seen and what had inspired me from the day. I created a large sketch using inks, found objects and a selection of materials. I also created a colour stripe to reflect the colours within the image.

It rained a lot in Liverpool....

 I found myself to be interested in my surroundings even more so than the exhibitions that I was visiting. The shapes, textures and patterns of the shipyard inspired me to sketch and photograph.

Ceiling of Cunard Building. The architecture was fantastic in this building and distracted me from the artwork within.

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