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.

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I simply filled in the shapes with a negative black colour, and placed them on a background of all the colours the car lights make.

 I thought this series of shapes was really interesting. It gave me ideas for prints, paintings, and much more...

I wanted to paint one of these shapes in large scale. I wanted it on a background similar to this. I wanted to show all the colours car lights make but at the same time show the movement within those colours..

I used a palette knife to give the paint movement and make the colours blend in with eachother. I reversed it so that the shape of the car light was negative and instead the background was made up of colour.  I just used one of the shapes in this painting. I thought a simple shape against this chaotic background worked better.

I started playing around with these shapes to try and come up with some ideas. I seen different shades of white, yellow, orange, red, green, blue, and gold in these lights. I tried to incorporate these colours into my pieces...
I outlined them with colour...

I filled them with colour...

I layered them over eachother on top of colour...

....And then ideas started flowing :)

 I started looking at the movement of lights when cars speed. I took loads of pictures of this and loved the shapes the lights make in photos.

I took some of my most interesting pictures and made a mini colage of them.

Then I got some tracing paper and just traced around the lights. I came up with really weird shapes, shapes that you wouldn't think came from car lights! I thought they were really cool. I decided then I was going to stick to the movment of car lights and thats what I'd focus on for the rest of my project.

<  These are just some of the many shapes I came up with!

some knitting :)

Watching my mam knitting one day I noticed the pattern knitting makes looks like the pattern on a car tire.
I've been trying to incorporate knitting into my project so i tought this was a good way to do that!



<< i wanted to make a design like this (a tire's pattern) out of knitted wool!