MODULE 1 - CHAPTER 3 (part 6)

CUT AND FOLD DESIGNS IN COLOURED PAPERS

 

a) ASYMMETRY - LAYERS OF SYMMETRICALLY CUT PAPER SHAPES

 

 

 

 

b) LAYERS OF ASYMMETRICALLY CUT PAPER SHAPES

 

 

 

c) ASYMMMETRY - LAYERS WITH NEGATIVE PAPER SHAPES

I used a left over black shape to see how it would look.  I also cropped the shape to fit at an asymmetric angle. I really like the pop the black makes

 

These two shapes used some negative shapes and then I cropped the shapes to fit the squares

 

Again, you could go on for weeks cutting, recutting and playing with shapes, as it is such a fun exercise and it is so surprising to see how the asymmetric shapes turn out - some of them are really interesting, well, they are all interesting, just useful for different applications I guess.  I surprised myself in enjoying the coloured cut outs as much as the black and white ones, although I had to dig out some different backgrounds papers to make enough contrast.  Using the multicoloured papers in all of them made them too similar - rather like making mud with mixing paints.  Making sure the backgrounds were more a single colour set off the multicoloured papers in a more pleasing way, I felt.

 

MODULE 1 - CHAPTER 3 (part 5)

CUT AND FOLD DESIGNS IN COLOURED PAPERS

SYMMETRY - DESIGN VARIATIONS USING LAYERS OF CUT PAPER SHAPES

 

These are symmetrical designs but arranged in an asymmetrical way

MODULE 1 - CHAPTER 4 (part 4)

CUT AND FOLD DESIGN SHAPES IN BLACK PAPER

DEVELOPMENT IDEAS OF ASYMMETRICAL SHAPES

 

These I cut as progressively smaller shapes

same as above

The bottom one is made up of the leftover bits after cutting the shapes into progressively smaller size

 

Using the same exercise on a different cross shape

The cut down cross shape and remaining pieces

MODULE 1 - CHAPTER 4 (part 3)

CUT AND FOLD DESIGN SHAPES IN BLACK PAPER

ASYMMETRICAL SHAPES

 

MODULE 1 - CHAPTER 4 (part 2)

 

CUT AND FOLD DESIGN SHAPES IN BLACK PAPER

SYMMETRICAL SHAPES FROM TRIANGLE FOLDS:

 

xii is from the negative shapes

I added the negative shapes to this one to expand the shape

I added the negative shapes separately to this one.

 

MODULE 1 - Chapter 4 (part 1)

CUT AND FOLD DESIGN SHAPES IN BLACK PAPER
SYMMETRICAL SHAPES:

I really enjoyed these exercises.  I think it is because I really like the high contrast using black and white, they seem spare and elegant.  I know I once cut out lots of pictures from home magazines to figure out what kind of colour schemes I like for a living room and I always went for light and pale coloured rooms but they always had a punch of something dramatic, either black or very bright cushions or some high contrast focal point.  I !could have gone on cutting these shapes for ever!

 

For all these exercises I basically used three different designs, the usual cross design from a Ukranian embroidery in Winnipeg, a portion of that design that I had previously used as a stamp and another fairly simple cross design taken from a headstone in the Banff townsite cemetery.

MODULE 1, Chapter 3 (part 5)

EXTRA BITS AND PIECES

Scale, Pattern, Border and Corner in

another cross shape.

Border and Corner in another cross shape

Overlayed united

Linked pattern

 

I still have some catch-up work from Chapters 1 and 2 from ideas that Sian had suggested.  However, I will press on to Chapter 4 and will hopefully have a bit of time to add my catch up ideas at the end of that post.  Chapter 3 was a challenge both with the material and the interuptions.  I have rescheduled the remaining chapters and put dates against them as I have left myself very little wiggle room.  I was shocked at how easily I went off track and how hard it was to get back at it.  Something I will have to be aware of.