From our last project “The Day To Day” we had to take an image from the pieces we create and develop that piece into 2D practice. My precious piece was focus on waves, so I decided with repeating of patterns, mainly focusing on line work and trying to make to the viewer feel calm, looking at colour and image placement.
I started off with drawing a simple straight line drawing and repeating it, to which I find to be very effective as the small gaps in the patterns also make a patterns. I then went on to do another patterns with straight lines, but added a circle. I find the two patterns really nice and decided to base my mains patterns off these and how ca I create this patterns in different 2D media. I started off experimenting with acrylic paint, ink and bleach. I did like the effect the bleach had, however the colour of the ink and bleach, I didn’t feel went well with my work so decided to focus mainly on the acrylic and paint a large piece of just strikes in colours I feel was calming, that being; blues, green and yellow. With the acrylic paint, I started with making simple circle shapes, to get a lined texture and also random stokes to see what certain pressure might effect the outcome of the pattern being created. Even though I found the colours and the patterns made with acrylic were nice, it was boring. So, I decided to draw on top using maker pen and recreate the strain line patterns and a more wavy patterns, which was very successful and would like to use this more in the experimenting proses.
I don’t plan on abandoning the beach and ink pieces as they could be effective if printed in a negative colour or layered. The pieces that had been created were successful and my next objective is to experiment with layering through using the printer and collage.