Spaces Make Lines (M3 Chpt 5)

Introduction

The focus of this chapter was to create bisecting lines within simple shapes in black and white. In essence the work was inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. I love Andy Goldsworthy's work and found it hard not to go off on a tangent and away from the focus of the chapter; however I resisted the urge and kept within the brief, bar a little wandering with the pebbles.

Activity 3.5.1

I used newspaper painted with black gesso for the shapes as I was able to get a fair number of shapes from a single newspaper spread. 

Working with bisected squares. Lots of ideas with squares and all of them worked well.

Making a rhythm using repeating squares with the same bisecting waveline. This worked really well.

Working with Circles: Had variable success with circles and found it best to stick with simple bisecting lines:

Making rhythms with bisected circles proved quite successful.

Working with bisected pebble shapes. The irregularity of the pebble shape worked well in this exercise:

cairn or standing stones

Other Shapes: I made a heart shape with a bisecting heartbeat line. Nice idea but not much to develop

Developing the ideas: As I mentioned above, it was hard to curtail the possibilities with these shapes. Working with some gelli plate printed paper(which I'd made for some other task) I made some shapes and painted them in the manner of Andy Goldsworthy. Most enjoyable. 

Circles

Circles on petrol blue background.

Pebbles

 Activity 3.5.2

Repeating the exercise using contrasting coloured papers. Firstly squares:

Red squares on contrasting background

Dividing the squares into triangles:

Changing the pattern

long vertical stripes first

splitting the vertical stripes with wavy lines

Changing the pattern

Making squares out of the vertical strips

On newspaper

Pebble Shapes

Extra Activity
Alas after weeks of infernal heat, the weather finally turned wet. However I ventured out into the garden with my camera. Under one of the apple trees were some windfalls and I arranged these in a 'Goldsworthy' spiral:

Lots of really good textures and colours and bite marks!! (from the deer who live at the bottom of the garden)

Adding some hydrangea flowers, both living and dead blooms: