Week Two. 1st October.

The week began with me exploring my colour pallet. Having my found objects to draw colour inspiration from, I worked from photographs and the objects themselves to choose my colours. I firstly painted tabs of around 3inches square in acrylic to achieve a good, flat colour, using a base of grey made from the primary colours to achieve a good depth of colour. When I was satisfied with my colours I scanned them into the computer and regrouped them with the revelvant RGB numbers.



I began natural dye samples this week, working with fresh Elderberries, on Silk, Linen and Cotton, using Tin, Iron and Alum mordants. I mordanted for one hour and dyed for twenty minutes, having previously found this to be the best timing, I kept to these times for all dye samples. I really like the colours achieved by the Elderberries, and am definatley interested in using them further on in the project.



Influenced by fashion illustrator Maxime Touratier I began exploring different ways of drawing my shells. Using darkroom developing to emulate Touratier's style I created some illustrations. Although I liked these, I did not feel that they would work within my project, although I did not rule them out completely.