Week One. 24th September

My Project is based on a beach/ocean theme, having visited various beach locations over the summer and collecting objects, I decided that this would be a good theme to work with. I have never worked with a theme similar to this before, and am interested in what I could do.

The first week of this project was based around briefing, image collecting and thinking about possible fabrics and colour-ways.
I started by photographing my found objects of shells, pebbles, and driftwood.





I had an idea that I wanted to work with natural dyes so I mordanted up lengths of 1.5metres of fabrics- silk, linen and cotton, in Tin, Iron and Alum mordants ready for doing samples when I was ready.
I enjoy working with natural dyes for their subtlety and depth of colour, and think that it will be a fitting medium for this theme. I also want to work with other techniques, but will use natural dyes for my starting point.