Leutton Postle Development

This week I have started to look at images of stretching and piercings in the African tribes and develop shapes, markings and colours from them.

 Here i looked at the mouth stretching, which is considered to be attractive - the bigger the stretching is, the more attractive you are. i picked out beading shapes and blobbed a pattern so that the paint created shapes above the surface - 3D. 

 Here I looked at the colour on the fringing - it reminds me of dip dye in hair you see today, i dipped paper in some paint to portray this. 

Here I have picked out the shapes and marks through my research to give me a starting point of translating my work into knit. 

My next step is to pick out techniques to translate to knit - considering what these samples would develop into and to create a mood board in which I will present my ideas to Sam Leutton.