I have stepped back to the roots of my personal brief, the pattern and texture found through knotting. I feel as though last unit I didn't do enough visual drawing, so this afternoon I set myself the task of looking through my initial research and doing some quick ink work from them. I love working with ink and stick, I find it to be an extremely enjoyable method of expressive painting.
Looking through my work so far, I was most inspired by the pages that had been photocopied from The Ashley Book of Knots, and also the chains that I photographed by the River Thames, so began there, drawing in both my sketchbook, and on larger pages.
As well as this, I came across a bag of ropes that I had collected over the New Year from the beach that I stayed near with my cousins. Taking the concept from my yarn knotting in my sketchbook, I applied the same principles to the ropes. It proved difficult as the ropes were very tough to sculpt, and I'd have liked to have had longer pieces to work with, but the principal idea was there, and I enjoyed experimenting.
