Design Weekend

During last week an idea for the seasonal hanging started to form. Grabbed a sketch book and started making notes and pen sketches on the train to and from work.

So here is the idea. Each panel has an element on it which represents the season in a stylised form. Although not sure that the snow flakes are simple enough. I may just turn them into squares.

On Saturday I created a few colour versions using torn paper. This time tried out holly for the Winter panel. The thinking was to have a cyle of colour too, so one colour off each panel was then used on the next. Just not happy with the holly. So after a weekend of playing with the images I have returned to the snowflakes. After playing with different shapes for each panel, I keep coming back to four even sized long rectangles. Must be the influence of all the Arts and Craft work in the rest of module 5.

While playing with the images I also created a version on assatate as the sketches gave the feel of stain glass windows. Using this as a concept tryed creating a few samples using layers of sheers. To make this simple there is just some bond-a-web holding the layers together. The pictures below show the samples against the window in my studio along with my cat Pippi, who was more interested in the intruder in the garden than my samples, thankfully. Saturday the weather was quite good which meant I was able to capture the cloud images too =)
I also create a few samples on calico too. These turned out more towards what I was hoping for. The colours are stronger and you can still hng them at a window for the stain galss effect. Photos to come next week.

Spent Sunday morning creating two fabric postcards - sorry no photos for now as these are for a C&G class exchange. In between times carried on making stitch Yule gifts for the familly.