Easter Research

Over easter I sat down and realised that I had bits and bobs of research and notes and blog posts and didn't feel like I had any sort of visible train of thought or process through my work so I decided to consolidate all my research into a sketchbook to keep it all together and allow me to see how I can move on my various ideas.

I started off my sketchbook with some studies of elderly peoples faces and features, in particular the eyes and skin.

I then started to tie in these drawings with images of Iris Apfel and the elderly style icons from the Advanced Style blog along with some decay images of buildings and architecture around Manchester from 175 years ago. 

From these images I then began to experiment with different ways of showing these textures and surface qualities. I started off with creating some knitting samples based on the colours and densities found in my images. 

I think my ideas translate really well through knitting as it shows the uneven surfaces of the buildings and the ageing skin, my plan now is to develop some machine knitting samples focusing on these textures.