2.2.9 (SELF) Introducing Colour and Warp Design

Colour Work

After researching David Szauder's work and realising colour would be an interesting element to my work I sourced this image of skin (above left), I chose this particular image as It had many colours, tones, highlights, and lowlights and thus gave me plenty of options when designing. I broke the image down and extracted the predominant colours and made colour strips, from this I moved on to add colour to my initial image. I have chosen to keep hints of clear space and black as that was my starting point and it has proved to be very successful thus far.

Coloured Initial Image

Upon establishing my colours I went on to design my warp, unfortunately I was unable to dye my own yarns and as a result the colours selected differ slightly from those I extracted directly from the colour image. My warp contains fifteen different mercerised 2/16's cotton, also after the research into Liliya Sotirova's pieces I have chosen to use Monofilament for my seersucker warp sections (appearing white on the plan below). Using monofilament for the seersucker section is an experiment itself as its not conclusive that it will work, I have selected the finest monofilament yarn in the hope that it will react the same as natural yarn but testing is the only way I will find out if this technique will work.

Final Warp