Shape and Texture

Today we focused on shape and texture, more specifically, simplifying shapes to still try and convey an obvious symbol. We started this off by thinking of our favourite fruit of vegetable and try to make it out of paper cut as simply but effectively as possible. I really enjoyed this although it was very far out of my comfort zone to make this simple an image (I had to keep reminding myself to not add any shading), however I always enjoy paper cutting. These were my results:

I was actually so happy with the results, these are my favourite three but I actually made 7. The best ones really were the simple ones and the graphic shapes and minimal use of colour are definitely something I could see myself carrying through into other projects.

We then used the same principles we'd learnt in the morning to make a self portrait. For this we could use any colours and textures we wanted and mine ended up feeling really autumnal because of all the browns I used (but really that was just the only paper colour left over, maybe no one else wanted it?)

This was the final outcome which I was pretty happy with. I've really surprised myself with how free I felt during this project, allowing myself to just cut straight onto the paper without marking too much out before hand has made the work look much more organic and given it a personality. 

What will I take from this into my future practice?

From this I have learnt that if I simplify my images, the sky will not fall and it might even still look nice! In future I'll try to simplify shapes and not add a fine-liner outline to everything I make as this can clearly be replicated using just cut shapes and playing with the way they interact on the page.