C&G Module 4 Chapter 5 completed

Developing designs for Appliqué

From my original images, I chose a fairly simple ceramic and turn it sideways drawing the image on paper.

The motif 

P 53. Drawings of the motif

The motif was then enlarged and simplified and elements cut onto card and pasted down onto a piece of firm card in preparation for making rubbings. 

p53. Cut-outs for the rubbings stuck to firm card

p 54. A first rubbing was made using blue, yellow and green Markel sticks

p 54. A second rubbing was made using blue and red Markel sticks

p 54. A third rubbing was made using brown, green and orange Markel stick

Extending the ideas

p 55. Shapes were developed from a bird drawing

p 55. Shapes were cut out and glued to a base board

p 55. A first rubbing using orange and brown Markel sticks and moving the base card to extend the image

p 55. A second rubbing was made using two shades of green again moving the base board to extend the rubbing

p 55. A third rubbing was made in a similar way using three colours

p 56. Reversing on the turn, some ideas were developed for a border

I liked the bird shape motif and decided that these shapes were ones that I could work with for the next chapter to develop appliqué.