Semester Two

I have decided to continue with Knit as my specialism and am actually very excited about the new project. Having been given the title 'Journeys' , I have begun researching into the physical and emotional journeys of soldier's at war. I think one could say that war is a journey in itself. But when a war is over, is the journey over?
I have many ideas about printing onto knit, felting knit and incorporating poetry by poets such as Lord Alfred Tennyson into my designs.

Here is one of the videos that I came across at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. I am interested in the way that the arrows travel across the sky. I have tried to illustrate this alongside printed poetry and I will relate the movement of the arrows to the structure of knit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAiTrnA-TL4&feature=player_embedded

Final Print Designs

These are the end use similations for my print designs, which I have been creating over the course of this term using 'Kaledo Print' software. Now I understand how to use the program, I am confident my designs can improve.

Knitting at the Weekend

This weekend I tried developing my knit samples and coming up with final piece ideas.

Girl with a Pearl Earring

This is yet to be stitched into, but I thought I would post it so far for your interest. Let me know what you think by commenting below, Thank you.

KNITTED SAMPLES

Pattern - Baroque and my own designs

These are a few of my print designs for interiors, for which the inspiration is below:

The patterns below are taken from a book on Baroque wall coverings.  I have used these and other similar designs as inspiration to my knit and digital design work (seen above).  With knit I began looking at how folds distort the fabric and relating the pattern to the structure of each knitted sample.  Distortion led to drop stitch and rolled knit.

Chiaroscuro technique

Chiaroscuro is a technique of selective illumination and deep shadow, which Caravaggio, Rembrandt and many more artists used during the Baroque era. These images are studies into the colours and proportions of colours within certain paintings as well as using applying the technique to wallpaper patterns.

Inspiration for Current Projects

For the past few months the Baroque era (c.1600-1750) has been a great influence to many of my projects during the first term of second year at university. This image is painted study of a section of Caravaggio's "Martyrdom of saint Matthew" with stitch detail.

The stimulus for choosing this movement came from the book 'The Innocent Traitor' by Alison Weir, which I was reading at the beginning of term. In this book, Lady Jane Grey's Protestant beliefs are a hug

e influence to what she wears and the history of the power struggle between Catholics and Protestants is at 

its high point during her l

ifetime. Through my research, I learned that this power struggle was hugely shown through the arts and resulted in the Baroque artistic movement.

Here is an example of Caravaggio's work using the chiaroscuro technique:

Getting Started

My first post accompanies nothing, but the idea of getting my work out there to be seen.  Past and present work will be uploaded for your interest very soon...