Textiles 1

Objective: to produce a collecton of drawings and collages of surface textures and forms. Working in monochrome, we used quink, brusho, waterproof ink, graphite powder, wax resist, charcoal, chalk, bleach, etc - to make as many different types of mark as possible. Then tried to create four interesting overall textures combining media, changing scale, density, quality, direction; using positive and negative marks, combining and layering media and effects.In the afternoon, we chose an object (in this case a string of dried aubergines that looked like little bells), described it in words - aiming also to understand the relationship between the structure and the texture, and the elements of repetition in the object. Then to interpret the object through making marks using a combination of media.

I felt there was too much going on at once and I lost track of what I'd intended to do. And which brush had which sort of ink on it, that sort of thing -- it all got uncomfortably chaotic for me!

The surprise of the day was these colours that Nod produced with quink over gluestick. Bleach made pink and yellow, and brusho over white pastel made a blue, but these colours were something else altogether -