Visual Research – Kayleigh Mace

Idea development

Kayleigh — Wed, 07 Dec 2016 23:22:16 +0000

So looking at my visual research to date I was struggling to see ways I could translate them into design ideas. It was suggested I try and find a way of tying it in with the other side of my project by manipulating the imagery. To do this I first tried using photography by slowing the shutter speed like I had for my light movement images but this didn't work well. Next I tried pulling the images through a scanner which gave much better results. I moved the images in wave shapes, staggered the movements and twisted the paper around to get different effects. The end results I am really pleased with and should give some good ideas for shapes to recreate that are not so illustrative. These were some of resulting images:

The only thing missing from these images is the colours so maybe I need to do some more visual images in the colours of my palette. I also wanted to look more at details within my original photographs to help with smaller scale details to be taken into design ideas.

Visual Development

Kayleigh — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 22:44:34 +0000

Looking at my original photos I have become conscious of simply copying the motifs and patterns that I see. Although they are beautiful I don't want to be re-creating them but more take the shapes and using them differently. It was suggested that I look at what it was about the images that I liked and the different motifs in them and, use that to create a list of keywords to do more work from. I came up with a range of words which I then categorised as the following:

Religion, Roman/Grecian/Mythical

Grand/Opulent/Intricate/Period

Fruit/Leaves/Flowers/Animals

Historic/Moody

Scrolls/Geometric/Gold/Draping

Flow/Patterns/3D/Structure/Uniform/Angular/Precision

Perspective

I will be using these words to influence not only my next drawings and paintings but also for when I start producing design ideas. I started with 'moody' and created my own photoshoot with leaves and fruit which both appeared within my original imagery. These are some of my favourite photos from the shoot:

I placed the objects onto reflective card to create shadows and exaggerate the shapes which tied in with the other side of my project.

I also looked at using the same objects to look at 'uniform' and make them look a bit like fruit stalls where everything is placed in groups and lines.

Finally I placed some of the fruit into water and some behind it to look at how this distorted the shapes. I really like this idea of distorting as it changes the appearance so that it isn't so literal.

I was also recommended this video which having now watched has some resemblance to my moody still life images.

The visual story

Kayleigh — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:32:10 +0000

The starting point for my project began with images I had collected on a trip to Paris. I fell in love with the architecture, the details and baroque style. From the images I looked at what patterns and shapes I found within the buildings and started to draw.

I quickly realised that by simply re creating the shapes and patterns I wasn't really drawing my own image and consequently it would mean any designs developed wouldn't have come from an original source. As a result of this I gathered the pictures together and started to look at them in more depth listing what was present in them, what I liked about them and any style features present. Contextualising with research into French textiles of the same period I started to form an idea of original resources to draw from. Fruits, leaves, exotic flowers and animals were present in the imagery of both my photos and research so used that as a starting point.

From this I looked for inspiration from art that I love to inspire different drawing techniques. Having visited an exhibition earlier in the year on modern art I particularly enjoyed the work produced in the cubism style so I started to think about different ways of how I could replicate it. Ive started out by breaking the pages up with masking tape which also gives depth to the images as it creates layers. Using tracing paper I drew over the lines and then started to look at removing the masking tape and layering it underneath the paper.

From that I looked at different mark making tools and line density to see how it changed the look if he objects I was drawing. To get a juxtaposed look I reversed the image on top so that they cross over.

Im enjoying this style of drawing and will continue to looking into more ways of layering my drawings. Moving forward I will be introducing colour into the work so that it ties in with my other research.

Visual Research – Kayleigh Mace

Idea development﻿

Visual Development

The visual story

Idea development