Series of work, transferring chance card drawing into textiles

I have decided to work with the environment around me, in this case, my plants. I have observed different parts of the plant and used hand stitch to creates line drawings on the found object, receipt. 

I have first wet the recipes then used indian ink and dripping it on top, let the ink soak in, put it under the water and soften the colours and let it dry. 

  

I like the feel of papers and the marks it left of where the needles has been, I think papers requires looking after while working with it. However, tears marks can be interesting too. Working with receipts, it gives an idea of mapping the city, creating a connection outside the studio and ''leaving a foot print of where I have been.''

Transferring chance cards drawing in textile work (part 2)

This is a photocopy of what I have done in overall, on the left hand side is my textile work inspired by a mushroom, in the middle is some ribbons I have found and I have started to loop them together, because I have been taugh to do the open blanket stitch, but I have found it difficult to remember which way I should put my needle, therefore, I have thought of recreating this hand stitch technique without having to use the needle.

This is my without needle open blanket stitch, or looping.

Transferring chance card drawing into textiles work

This is a photograph of a mushroom that I have found in Withworth Park, I have taken this as my inspiration and starting point.

This is a photograph of my samplings, I have picked out one of the chance cards: draw with 20 lines. I have first drew a mushroom, then adding my own instruction to, which was: draw with 20 lines, after that use a rubber to rub out the drawing and repeat as many times as needed. Therefore, the drawing would ended up with rubbed out lines as well as the new ones. 

Then I have transformed that into textile work, first I have studied the colour of the mushroom and decided to use a rather light weighted fabric to represent that, however, I have later on added threads onto it ,but leaving the middle empty, because in the picture above, all the lines based around and leaving the middle part empty. 

Shoes

This drawing is from one of the chance card task- Draw a drawing for 5 minutes for 60 minutes.
I have planned to draw both shoes, however, I have realised I have not spend my time evenly on both shoes drawing. Therefore, I thought of having one detailed drawing and one continue line blind drawing. I thought this way it makes the drawing look more intresting.

Long Drawing

This is from one of the chance cards - Long drawing

I have folded an A4 piece of paper in half and started drawing 4 different water bottles in front of me, they are all similar and yet different in design. I have decided to use line drawing to bring out the colours on the objects.

20 lines drawing

This is a 20 lines drawing from the chance cards task.
It amazed me how much details I can get by using only 20 lines.
I have draw part of the plant and not the whole, because I like working with space, less is more. Also, because I have combined the instructions with draw with 20 lines only with another chance card, use only 50% / 80% of the paper, I have thought of leaving some space and work with my line drawing to create a sense of compostion.

Using Indian Ink with different sized brushes

This is one of the drawing task from the chance cards - use Indian ink with different sized brushes.
I have taken a picture of the Manchester art gallery from the inside, because I thought the building was built with glass roofs and the natural sun light can shine through. I thought that was rather interesting to draw that. I mainly used line drawing to draw the stairwell. Also, watered down the ink to show the see thoroughness of the glass.

This is the actual photograph that I have worked from, it was taken in Manchester Art Gallery.

Drawing from Dust

This is one of the drawing tasks from chance cards - draw from dust.
I have found this task very interesting, because dust, no one ever bother to look at it, never mind touch it.
When I read the chance card, I thought about how I am going to present it.
However, I could not find and dust, therefore, I have used ashes instead. I have first used glue and throw ashes on top. Then I used my glue stick as a paint bush and went over it again.
I thought of this task as using unusually materials. Such as dust. Therefore I kept away from using the usual drawing tools, such as paint brushes.
After I made sure the ashes is staying on the page, I have used a stick to create mark making.
I like this drawing of mine, because it has movement, like the ashes is blowing in the wind.