Having looked at several designs, I have finally decided to make a piece approximately 60cm x 60cm to cover the offending sign on the beach!
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First idea - The wording will be incorporated in the background layer.
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Second idea - There is s change of background. This is the one I have selected to develop.
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Looking at colours and layers of design, seaweed and barnacles over a rocky background.
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Initial experiments - lots of room for improvement! However the pink and orange strands will be developed further.
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A barnacle made from picot stitch.
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Another barnacle, this time made from silk paper, manipulated and machine stitched.
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The bracelet is my inspiration for the colour palette I will use in this piece. A change of approach. Fabric layered with snippets of organza and bonded together using a soldering iron. Clay fish were made to act as a template to cut out the fish shapes.
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Fish arranged to form swathes of seaweed, moving in the water.
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Three different colour ways for the fish. The base colour is olive green. I mixed olive-green, dark pink and cream for the first fabric, olive green, brown and orange for the second fabric and olive green, blue and purple for the third fabric. The background rock is drawn to scale and I have mixed the coloured fish up in the strands of seaweed. At the moment the strands still look too much like fish and not enough like seaweed.
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The piece of serpentine rock from Cornwall to give me inspiration for a rocky background.
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Painted tyvek, painted with acrylic paint and dabbed with Xpanda print, then heated. I thought it was too 'busy' although I like the texture very much.
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After a great deal of experimentation I started working with painted tyvek and paper.
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Here the ridges have been coloured using oil-based pastels. I find the effect very pleasing.
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Black metallic paint on treated tyvek, scimmed with green and white oil-based pastels.
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A working sample of PAP4 so far. I am very pleased with the rock background. I have hand stitched the fish into seaweed strands, using arrow stitch in various threads. (The arrow stitches could also be interpreted as fish bones.) I think this helps to break up the fish outline although more stitching may be required. I used the pink and orange strands from No 4, to coil them into 'barnacles' and added a couple of extra colours. The barnacles will be in a variety of different sizes when they cascade through the seaweed. Although the colours are outside my comfort zone I think they work well together.
