Visual diary

Here are a few of the pictures in my visual diary

Glacier flow lines

This is my first sample completed.

A picture of glacier flow

My sketch

My sewn sample.

This image is an example of sharp, parallel lines creating the illusion of fuzzy, uneven curved lines, it creates a texture reminiscent of taffeta.  In my sample, the lines create several art elements.   Firstly, the smaller, parallel lines create the illusion of larger, undulating lines, as well as the shape of the uneven lines.  The lines themselves create a texture.  Overall, the main principle in this work is the movement created by the lines.

Line type sampler

I have half finished this sample, been having all those problems you have with machines, especially when not using a foot.  I have also started a visual journal, where I am drawing lots of flow pictures and have been fiddling with demonstration videos.  I also have started another thread painted quilt.  This one is a floral one a close up of a cosmos flower taken by my cousin Jenny.

Here are two pictures, first of my pattern on my design wall and the first bits of my background on my table after being fused

 

Of course this has a long way to go but it is going.  I am looking forward to embroidering it.

On the track at last

Well, here is a postcard that I thread painted.  I did actually have some fused fabric underneath, but it is not really visible any more.  This is called "Bushfire Moon" and is a memory of the sky after the victorian bushfires.  It has stuck in my head until I just had to do it.
I have decided that I need to have a purpose to my work, so I am following (very loosely) the city & guilds syllabus for machine embroidery with a view to actually doing the course in a year or two.


My theme or purpose in my study is outlined in my portfolio introduction:

Machine embroidery and indeed all embroidery has its basis in the element of line.  Embroidery uses as it’s medium an actual, physical line which defines and creates the other design elements of shape, space, texture, form, tone and colour. In this project in two parts exploring machine embroidery in textile art, my theme centres around the natural flows and crystalline structures of matter.  In this theme, line will have precedence over other elements, however I will use all of the other elements and principles of art to develop depth in the work.

My initial inspirations came from two references in Textile magazine (vol 4 no 100 2010) on natural flow patterns and lace in fashion.  My intent is to concentrate on natual flows as inspiration in the first phase of the work and to expand into crystalline structure, with its links to lace and nets, webs as second stage of research.

The first stage is to look into the theory of line and I have  done abrief overview and hope to work up the sample tomorrow.  I also have used flow inspiration to design six patterns which will be next on my work up list.  Here is my outline of the types of line I will produce for my first sampler.

Anyway, on I go