I've always been a lover of geometric style artwork, and have managed to incorporate into a lot of my work over the years. This love of shapes and geometry came about whilst studying for my Textiles degree at University, we were encouraged to experiment a lot and geometric designs were my outcomes for the most part.
I decided to have a go with geometrics again, and while playing around with inks, I came up with some patterns, which I then digitised using Photoshop and created designs ready to cut and create with.
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The first pattern painted with black ink |
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Six layer paper cut influenced by the above ink drawing |
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Close up of the six layer paper cut |
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Layered triangle design hand stitched in paper |
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Close up of the hand stitched piece |
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Another pattern created using black ink |
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Paper cut mandala style design created using the above painted pattern |
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Close up of the mandala style design |
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Another paper cut mandala style design created using the second painted pattern |
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Close up of the above mandala style design |
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A paper cut repeat design, again created using the second ink painting as a starting point |
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Close up of the repeat pattern above |
I have also been experimenting with paper cut text and quotes, look out for next weeks blog post for photos of those!
Thanks for reading.
Gemma
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