I found a couple of shapes I liked in photos I'd taken, a made a lino cut from one, and made a stamp with some fine cord from the other. The third shape, which is probably the simplest and best for development into designs, is from two of the ivy leaves in the collagraph I made. I did a rubbing from them, then made a lino cut.
Solid Shapes
I chose the ivy leaf design from the page above to use in these design exercises. Scans of the designs are shown below as the photos of the design book pages won't show detail.
Diagonal lines using Spectrum Noir pens, with a solid shape over.
Opaque silver shape was glued to the paper which had some lines drawn on it, then more lines were drawn over the shape. A translucent yellow shape was layered on top.
The next two really didn't work and I ditched them.
Shapes of varying sizes spiralling from a central point with translucent shapes over.
Shapes of different sizes cut from a double sided paper, spiralling from a point. Each shape has the same section folded back to display a third colour and new shapes.
The above design was traced, drawn in ink, divided into four sections and coloured in counterchange.
Torn silver paper was laid on brown card. Two shapes were placed on top - one opaque, one translucent.
I cut this one in half horizontally to produce two smaller images.
This is my favourite! It reminds me of the torn paper work of Matisse. (Below this image I've included a larger piece I made previously in this style)
I think the following has worked well
Based on a letter of the alphabet, I made a bad choice. This isn't pleasing at all!
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