"Pop-Up" Project. First workshop.

This week I started my “Pop-Up” project, where I was asked to bring in a collection of objects that inspire me. I chose to bring a collection of object that reminded me of home. This consisted of an ceramic deer bookend, a white vintage tin, a floral placemat, wooden pegs, my set of home keys and a padlock. 

All of these possessions inspire me, they all mean something to me or make me remember a memory. 

With this project I will develop my Textile techniques through the means of rotation around the various areas of textiles, such as print, stitch and knit. With the use of my objects I have gathered I will extract various aspects from them such as colour scheme and texture. 

One of my chosen objects- A padlock from home. 

One of my chosen objects- My floral food placemat.

One of my chosen objects- my white vintage tin.

The first work-shop I had on the “Pop-Up” project was a drawing one, I had to use various drawing techniques to create my images such as line, textured, silhouette and block colour.

A textured drawing of my padlock. 

Using a range of different drawing styles I created a composition of drawings. 

This exercise was to illustrate "movement" on the page. 

Using a range of colours and just line work I worked on top of one drawing. 

With the idea of "dot to dot" in my mind I used it as a basis for my drawing. I like this effect best of all. 

This first workshop made me confident in the objects I chose, to know I can work with the objects and use them effectively and use them to full potential without getting bored.

Im really happy with my first drawings that I have created, I was surprised about how confident I was when drawing them. I think I will probably use some of the images in my technical blocks.