In this unit, my confidence has grown by experimenting with tools making for drawings and by learning new skills in different machine techniques. I have begun this unit with the 100 object drawings from galleries, museums and my surroundings, in which I have drawn different objects which were completely different from one another. Then I have looked into my mark making drawing skills by looking at my drawings and photos, which helped me to get different colour themes and textures of different objects.
In my mark making drawings I have tried to follow the movements of objects and colour balance. I loved doing drawings in different ways, which I had developed furthermore in my drawing sessions and in my development sketchbook e.g. I have experimented by blowing some balloons with paint onto a paper and putting some paint and detergent onto the sink to get a bubbly textured onto a piece of cartridge paper (shown below).
Moreover, the feedback from my tutor really helped me in developing my work. In the beginning, I was really confused and lost about my work. I did not know which direction should follow which I shouldn’t, but after getting the feedbacks almost every week has encouraged me to take challenges and use studios actively in the university.
I began by picking up some random colours (e.g.1) for sample making from my sketchbook, but then I choose a colour pallet (e.g.2) from my developed sketchbook to follow and develop something which relates together. Then I started to make wrappings for looking into textures and colours of threads – this encourages me to see how threads work together before using them for samples.
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After attending the dye and screen-printing workshops, I have tried to follow the path of mark making drawings with pigments and dye chemicals because I loved doing mark making drawings at the beginning. However, I was not really liking it. Then I had inductions of Cornely machines, big Bernina and different types of technology onto the normal Bernina machines to create different textures. Then I found Cornely machines and tailor tacking foot for normal Bernina machine really interesting. I loved the way these machines create a pop-up texture with a single thread.
