Micheal Kidner- Week Two..

As the design to Michael Kidner’s print is very block structured, it was vital that both my drawing and my sampling reflected this. I started off by cutting out square and rectangle shapes from coloured card that linked with my colour palette. I then placed them into different compositions working on proportion and scale. This then led to a clear direction of what structures I wanted to do when I was on the loom, as well as a clearer idea of what was working and what wasn’t working so well. The sampling was very different to my usual designs but ones that I found I really enjoyed, maybe more than all my previous projects. I think this could be a way forward for my work in the future. 

Before going onto the loom I wanted to do some thorough artist research, here I came across Claude Monet, I found much inspiration from his colour palette and soft style of his piece “Water Lilies" dabbled style of painting and casual brush strokes give a relaxed and loose feel to the piece. Monet inspired me to brand new ideas from yarn choices, i.e with soft qualities like mohair and more colour inspiration.