more felt making :)

 With these two pieces of felt I layed the raw wool down in the shapes of the car lights before felting it.

I also used embroidery threads and feathers to mix in with the felt.

I used colours of car and street lights in these pieces.

making some felt :)

I went to the felt work shop that was on at the beginning of the year and made felt for the first time. I loved making felt and knew straight away I had to incorporate it into my project. On the day of the workshop I made different pieces of felt using the colours of carlights.

One of these I cut up in to pieces and formed one of the shapes of the carlights from it.

After the workshop I did this again lying the felt up against raw wool.

TOO MUCH COLOUR!!!!

I think I was getting carried away with colour. My sketchbook was starting to look a little too rainbow like, and it was driving me mad! I photocopied some of my sketchbook to see what things would look like in black and white.

I was really glad I did this. It made me notice the line of the shapes more and how the colour over powered them alot!

I began to re-draw the shapes in different ways but at the same time only using black and white. I needed a break from colour for a while.

I realised just a small amount of colour or pastel like, simple colours looked better than bright colours all thrown together. It made it all a little less chaotic and made it all about the shape.

PVA and crepe paper...

I was playing around more with threads and crepe paper using the colours of car lights against a black background.









I splashed abit of pva glue mixed with water on these to see what would happen. I loved the way it blended the colours of the crepe paper and crinkled the black sugar paper. I want to make a sort of 3D out of this.

I did this piece. I found the pva on top of crepe paper made an amazing texture. I  loved the way the colours blended together like the way the colours of the car lights blend together.

I did three seperate pieces of the shapes of the car lights in crepe and pva. I joined them so one shape would blend into another, like the way car lights blend into eachother.

Laminating thread and crepe paper :)

I started experimenting with crepe paper and embroidery threads. I used the colours that can be seen in car and street lights.  Again I want to make them look glassy so they'd resemble actual car lights.



I covered them in pva glue to give them a shine. I also covered them in cling film. After putting cling film over the paper and thread i thought it looked like laminated paper. I then tried laminating crepe paper and embroidery threads. I cut them out in the shapes the car lights made. I also drew the shapes on to the laminated pieces. I think these pieces turned out really interesting, and resembled car lights.

Thinking of a 3D!

I think these shapes would look really good dangling as a 3D maybe in a medium, of wax, or resin, or something glassy looking. I think a glassy looking medium is suitable as car lights are protected with glass and always shine through glass.

   After sketching this I thought they'd look really wel as a piece of jewellary dangling from the neck or back.

How I ended up making car lights look like chinease symbols? :/

Alot of people automatically thought these shapes were chinese symbols when they seen them. When I coloured them in black I noticed they looked really like chinease writing. I decided to make hanging chinese decorations and placed the shapes on them to see how they'd turn out. I used tea bags on paper and burned the edges of the hanging pieces to give a rustic look.