I was a professional photographer in a previous life.

So I decided, with some recommendation from my tutors, to take a load of photographs of samples that i had previously done. I had wax on tulle, some paper with pleats, and different knitted materials. After I took 79 pictures, I picked out my favourites and edited them in Photoshop. I contrasted, deepened, and cropped them.

 I like how this one turned out because the orange, red and blue are so vivid and powerful.

 This is one of my favourites because of the shape of the fold with the plaster on it  and the clarity of the lines in the picture came out well.

 The folds in the paper came out really nicely when the light hit it at a certain angle.

 I love the ridge between the two piece of wax and how the tulle curves up between them

 The little white dots on top of the wax formed shortly after the wax had cooled down.

 The knitted wire was hard enough to do but came out really well in the end.

 This photo is my favourite one, I love the pink drop in the centre and the grid of the tulle underneath. It came out so clearly, when I brought it into Photoshop to edit it, all I had to do was deepen and contrast the colour which mad the pink come out even more. I did the same with the photographs below.

Wax wax wax.

Well in my previous photo's, prints and drawings, I was experimenting with tulle earlier on, because material is also part of my project. I decided that I'd like to experiment with wax on tulle and see the dripping movement and to get some colour there too. I like Blue and Pink so I decided to see how it would change the shape of the tulle with the wax dripped on it and also letting the wax settle on top.

Knitting on a large scale.

So I decided that with my new found knowledge and skills in the knitting department, that I wanted to do something 3D and life size. The Shape and Texture in this is what I want to highlight the most. I've a feeling this is going to take a while, so I'll update it again in a later post.

 3 different kinds of wool put together thickens up the pattern and adds a variety of colour

 Drawing out the outline of the figure helps to keep to the shape that I want but also shows where to reduce and increase stitches.

Shredded fabric also works well instead of wool and make it thicker too.

Sequences - The different stages of a jump/flip.

I wanted to do a large scale 2D piece, so I put four black A2's together and researched what the different stages of a jump look like. What I gathered from the different pictures that I found was that it always seemed to have a sort of ghostly look, like each figure is slightly see through. 

So I went ahead and took the class's criticism and decided to add more colour to my work, but I still wanted the ghostly look that was in the original picture, so I decided to put down the outline of the figures and add in the colour where the light falls.

So I went from yellow, to orange, then to red and purple, finishing on different shades of blue and green.

Apologies for the delay...

Well it's been a while lads, but that's just means all the more material for you to see now :)
To sum it all up, I had a bit of a go at knitting, I've done it before and I knew the basics, but I needed a bit of a hand getting back into the swing of it all, and before I knew it I was knitting up a storm!
Luckily my mom is an expert knitter, and she gave me a few pointers. 

 Shredding fabric into a continuous line is something else you can knit with.