Monochromatic Mark Making - 'Spots and Stripes'

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Stripes and Spots:

I found this brief to be the most enjoyable so far as I really enjoy the freedom that mark making allows. For these marks I used limited materials, just black acrylic paint and Indian ink, and experimented with the mediums to explore all the different ways that they could be used. From using a paint brush, a stick and a pallet knife to apply the medium to the paper. 



I am really happy with my final outcome, I feel that I produced a very visually appealing A1 sheet. To develop this project further I want to experiment with printing these marks onto acetate to create a textile surface pattern design that can be printed onto fabric.

Rubbings:


After experimenting with wet media I began to take rubbings using different surface textures from around the college. I then tore up these sheets and combined them to create contrasting compositions of a variety of marks.









If I was to develop this further I would experiment with the different ways that I could tear the paper such as cut it with scissors, perforate the edges using water or paint to create more variety to these collages.

Vertical Lines:

While producing these rubbings I took photos of the different surfaces that they were from. Then, on Photoshop, I put the marks I made back onto the environment by using the layer mask tool and altering the opacity to allow the marks to be seen.





I think that these edits were extremely successful as the compositions are visually interesting due to the number of layers to the image. If I was to re-produce these edits I would experiment with the colours used and see how that would alter the overall composition.

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