Module 5 - Chapter 3 - Texture and Relief in Paper

Looking closely at photographs and images of textures and relief surfaces, I manipulated papers to translate the observed textures.

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Using scrunched up newsprint I created the texture observed from leaves on the woodland floor.

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Using scrunched tissue paper and spaces for the branches I created the canopy texture.

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Using twisted strips and newsprint I created the texture shown by silver birch saplings.

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Using folded watercolour paper laid over scrunched crepe paper I created the texture of silver birch bark.

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Using folded crepe paper and circles cut from watercolour paper I created the texture of the bark of a pine tree.

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With machine gathered, and twisted tissue paper, I created the texture observed from the pine tree coppice.

As these textures are to be used as rubbings later in the module, I mounded them all on a sturdy base of foamboard. Each 'block' is A5 in size.

Module 5 - Chapter 2 - Paper Relief Investigations

 An experiment with ripping and folding different papers. Some papers were more difficult to tear in a straight line when ripping 'against the grain'.

(I didn't notice the bit about white paper!!!)

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Each paper started as A4 and was scrunched down to fill 1/9th section of A4 card.

From left to right, top to bottom:

newsprint, tissue paper, crepe paper, parcel paper, sugar paper & tracing paper.

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 Manipulated tissue paper

From left to right, top to bottom:
hand gathered, knotted, twisted, zig zag cut in strips hole punched & pleated

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 hole punched & scrunched, zig-zag cut in strips & pleated, zig-zag cut in squares & layered, hole punched and twisted

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 Gathered samples

top to bottom:

hand stitched and gathered, machine stitched & gathered

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 hand gathered in squares, hand gathered in strips

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