Proportion and composition of my colour choice..

As the final painting I chose for my project was the Guy Rose poppy field painting, the main colours I will use for my project will be red, a veriety of different shades of green and blue, a little bit of yellow and black, (the last three colours I will only use in some areas of my samples) I will use my colours wisely so that they link in with both the Wallace and Sewell work and the Guy Rose's 'Poppy Field' painting.  



 

The two images below are two examples from my development and sketch book work, by creating my own kind of painted up pieces and mark making pages, chopping them up and rearranging them it helps me a lot later on when it comes to weaving my samples, this way I have something to look back on, that can help me with what kinds of yarn to use, what colours of yarn to use and what kind of structure would be subitiable for both an in particular weave or section of a weaving sample, this way I will have a final collection of samples that have each been planned and thought about individually, that have a background of development work to go along side the samples.

 

 

                                 

My warp choices..

The original piece of fabric that I chose by Wallace and Sewell was from one of there scarf collections, because of this choice and the artists that I had looked up, I would like to make my personal final collection a scarf based project too so everything shows a clear link.  
The final choice of yarns for my warp was going to be all in 2/16s cotton, the measurements will be spread across 10 inches and 6 yards long, I will have three inches of red cotton to start me off followed by two inches of Slate blue (navy), one inch of Jade green, an inch of red, an inch of the slate blue (navy), half an inch of the olive and jade green and finishing off with an inch of red again.
My warp will be designed in blocks of colour as will my weft.
The picture here below is a yarn wrapping of my warp plan. (The reason why I have a large yarn wrapping and much smaller one is because the original navy that I was going to use wasnt a 2/16s cotton, and this was a vital instruction for the Wallace and Sewell brief.)  

Paul Cezanne

Paul Cezanne is another artist that I have also done some research on, the reason for this choice of artist was not only because he came up as I was looking up Guy Rose and his style of painting, but my tutor also mentioned him in a tutorial during this second week of my project.
Both artists are very different in the way they create there practice, but similar in other ways, both male artists that specilise in fine art and painting, but different by how there work looks on paper, with an amazing eye for colour Paul Cezanne's work is known around the world and really stands out from so many.
The reason I have chose to look at both of these artists for my project was because they both use similar colour pallets that have really inspired me for my own brief.
I havnt only been inspired by there colour pallet for my project but I found there textured way of working and mark making very interesting too as I could bring these ideas into my own project by my drawing work and the choice of yarns that I decide to use, I thought a mohair type of yarn would be a perfect example of this to create similar kinds of pattern and structure, with fuzzyness and texture so that all of my work can link together.  

Guy Rose

The artist I found to base my project around the Wallace and Sewell collection was a fine artist specialising in painting work called Guy Rose, I chose one of his panitings called 'Poppy Field.'

The reason why I chose 'Guy Rose' was because I loved his unique style of very free and loose vibrant colour style painted pieces. He uses both harsh define marks along with the complete oposite of loose and very washy tones. I chose this in particular painting as I felt it would fit in perfectly with the Wallace and Sewell brief as not only are the colours both bright and vibrant but this certain piece of work can be broken down into blocks of colour just as the Wallace and Sewell designs are made up of both stripes and blocks. This is the kind of style that I want to create when it comes to my sampling work.

 

Another painting of his that I also looked very closely at was one called 'Along the brook' this painting was a complete extravaganza of green shades and tones, something very different to the first painting of his that I looked at but as green is a big part of my colour pallet for the Wallace and Sewell brief, I used this painting to unpick the green tones with the idea of creating a one colour plan for a sample or two for this range, or considering just using a section of this colour pallet for a sample.

The start of my live project.. Wallace and Sewell..

To kick start my live brief, I chose a peice of fabric by one of the Wallace&Sewell fashion ranges,from a scarf collection. A peice of woven fabric with so many amazing qualities and created with all my favourite colours, that in a sence could be used for both interior and fashion purposes, I decided on this particular piece because I loved there choice of colour and composition. After I had a clear decision of what context I was going to base my project on I mixed up the perfect colour Pallet and began to look into what colours and type of yarn that I could use for both my warp and my weft.
After the hard desisisons were made and everything was unpicked as the starting point I then went away and began some thourough research on what artists I could combine in with my work to make the perfect link.

 

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