Thursday, 11 December 2014
Tuesday, 9 September 2014
Sunday, 7 September 2014
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Monday, 25 August 2014
Sunday, 24 August 2014
Photo of the Day
Photo Mates
Griditor
iPhoto
Saturday, 23 August 2014
Friday, 22 August 2014
Tuesday, 5 August 2014
Kingston Lacy Flower
Paint It Now
Sunday, 3 August 2014
Saturday, 2 August 2014
Friday, 1 August 2014
Sunday, 27 July 2014
Sunday, 6 April 2014
Saturday, 8 February 2014
Purple.
Then the dip dyeing met Decim8. These are a few of the results. Great backgrounds, if nothing else.
Saturday, 1 February 2014
Explorations
Starting with these - 'machine networking' with Visual Marks.
I decided to look in detail at the automatic stitches we had all used - reproducing them in hand embroidery, changing the scale, trying other media, anything else I can think of!
I began by making cut paper patterns mimicking some of the stitches - as far as was possible. I used magazine pages, choosing ones which were mainly monochrome, although a bit of red crept in there as well.
Each of these repeats is about an inch.
Next, of course, I had to play around with this image in an app or two
Flipomatic. I really like this app for producing textile-like patterns.
Mirrorgram, using one of the in-app filters as well as mirroring.
Kaleidoscope.
Decim8
Fragment - rapidly becom a new favourite.
Griditor -great for sublte changes. I think this looks like inlaid marble.
Leonardo
And last but not least, iColorama. These were all made by blending the original image with other images, either apped versions of the paper cuts or completely different ones.
It is so easy to produce interesting images that I tend to lose track of the fact that I should be thinking about textiles. Can these be translated into textiles, and if so, how? How might I use them, rather than just printing them on fabric and adding a bit of stitch?
That is a much more difficult task...