I didn't want to just copy existing material, therefore, I decided to take my own images to respond to (with a little help from my sister...again!!) My younger sister is a very talented dancer, so I thought it would be a good idea to take shots of her dancing! My idea was to focus on one part of her body; for example her hand. Looking at her hand I would then draw the shapes created from the movements. Once getting into it, I then used different parts of her body, even the general movement of her whole body. It definitely wasn't as precise as the Bourett steps,and you couldn't tell what steps were made, however it got the mood and theme across well. I used different medias to draw with:pen, pencil and felt-tip pen. I found this helpful as I could experiment with the tone, texture and thickness of the motifs.
Even though my designs are so different from my research, I have still taken some aspects of the original shapes. I really enjoyed producing these motifs; I found it interesting developing the shapes and seeing what they could look like as a print. My next task was to develop motifs to put on acetate so it could be exposed onto a screen for printing. I realised that I should create some more hand motifs that were different and a couple of digital motifs. This would mean that I had a variety of shapes to play with in the print room.
Motifs for screen printing
As well as having the motifs as a whole, I have also included them as separate shapes. This means that if I wanted to use a certain part of it to print, I could. I will be able to produce more of a range of prints and I won't get bored of only having a few motifs to use.
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