Pattern and Body Form

After looking at parts of the body for my pattern project I started looking at parts of the anatomy such as skulls, eyes and lips. Before I introduced pattern to my ideas I first drew out a basic design of a skull and looked at tone and shape so that I could consider my patterns used to try and suggest tone and shape. Once I had done this I created the design on the left, which is full of different patterns made by various types of lines and shapes. As a finished piece of work I was please with how it turned out and it has opened a new area in which I can take my project into.

Pattern and Body Form

As part of my body and pattern project I have started using different line patterns I could use and interpret to make my ideas and designs look more interesting and sophisticated. I created this by taking a template of my hand and mark making using Indian ink and a biro pen.    

Sgraffito Bowl

My class was set the task in which we had to make a bowl using the Sgraffito process. While making my bowl I also looked at work done by Gary Cattermole because he also uses Sgraffito in his work which involves him scratching words into his bowls, he also does personalised bowls that you can send requests into him for him to make for you to buy. After looking at some of Gary Cattermole’s work it Influenced me to decorate my bowl in a similar way so I decided I would weigh all my objects and write down all the individual weights inside my bowl to represent my objects instead of drawing them or writing down what the objects were. I also used Manganese Oxide on my bowl to highlight the numbers by making them look black against the white slip.  

Pattern and Body Form

This is another piece I have created as part of my people and pattern project in college. I have tried to create a basic portrait of a girl by using different patterns and lines with a biro pen, by changing different patterns I have tried to suggest different parts of the girl such as her hair, face and body. Furthermore I have also left this version quite empty and basic to contrast against another portrait where I went all out on using different patterns aiming to fill as much of the portrait as possible. Over all as a piece of work I am very happy with how it has turned out and I think it works really well contrasted with the other version of the portrait.

This is the other portrait I created to contrast against the other one, as you can see this one has much more going on in terms of pattern as I attempted to go as over the top as I could while considering being able to read the drawing still as a portrait of a girl. I still kept in mind how I was using the pattern to define areas of the portrait and to suggest shading to an extent. As an overall piece I think this portrait looks finish and full compared to the other one which is made to look much more basic and empty.