CREATING SAMPLES THROUGH RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT

I next began to take the shapes from my drawings and photographs and develop them through samples in machine/hand stitch. I tried to minimise and pick out the repetitive shapes for my samples - each sample turned out different, some weren't so good, but still gave me ideas of how to develop them further.

 

hand stitched - ladder stitch with french knots through the middle -  imitating the growth of mushrooms on the bark of the trees.

imitating tree branch shapes through small french knots.

in this sample i imitated the shapes from one of my black ink drawings - using various widths experimenting with the satin stitch - i also added some white tone using the embellisher.

creating textured layers to represent shapes and layers in bark - french knots representing mushroom growth. 

KATHY PENDERGAST - TONE

When starting to look to adding more tone to my drawings i came across artist Kathy Pendergasy. Kathy creates line pencil drawings of maps. They have alot of tone, her use of pencil is very carefully usedd and controlled exellently. I intend to try and achieve a simillar quality in my plant drawings.

 

Kathy Pendergast map tonal drawings

 

I experimented with line simillar to Kathy Pendergast to help me get used to the types of tones the pencil makes and how to control it.