*yawn*

Being awake all night really takes a punch to your system. So I think a blog post from my phone is the only way I'm going to get my development and experimentation for this alloa project posted.
Least till I get on my laptop and give it an edit.
Basically I've been recording textures through hand drawing with my finer technical pens, of believe it or not, the burned out skip at the back of Tje.college. My reason being that I do feel the building needs some grubby and texture. Well the skip was flooded with texture from all the bubbled and charred layers of paint. I must have seen greens, yellows, reds and blues all bubble and blister to its surface. In its vandalism came a wonderful idea. The bare white expanse of walls gave it the sterile feel, and the sight of textures through grotty colours seemed to me, perfect to add to this work.

I've also done loads of experiments with cotton. Inking it up to print like you would a lino cut. The range of textures is great in tones and experimenting with it to be used as a monotype is great fun and rather satisfying being able to build a whole image by rolling or drawing on the back of the small square of fabric.

Printing sheets of glass also gives some great textures. And of course the reason to me using glass and cotton is a nod towards alloas history of weaving and glass making.
Also I feel that printing has a certain quality that you can never get by any other process.

I also mentioned previously my interest in the large variety of bricks that built alloa and shows all the history. Using charcoal I recorded the texture of brickworks using frottage. Charcoal to relate to the coal and silver mines of the town.

Oh and before I forget. I've always loved pin and thread drawings and I did have and idea of using this process. Even more so after discovering Debbi Smyth and her massive large scale pinworks. I adore them and so should you :p
And another little thing. I tried out a little vacum formed paper in recording lace fabrics. However I doubt these two ideas will go any further than here as the project has moved on to a more understandable visual piece.

Next blog update on my ideas for final development hopefully soon :p