Watercolour dolls

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with these thread drawings I painted watercolour on and let it drip and splash naturally to leave a trace. Even though I'm no longer working with these gestural embroiderys I used the drip affect when painting the dolls blush circles.

I videoed myself painting the large sheet on the wall and will post that soon for now premiere pro has me baffled.

I started screen-printing in order to create more dolls but began altering the subjects through print as well cutting separate and collaging together.

Starting Point

This was my starting point preserving people and place, at this point in my work I was focusing on psychogeography rather than process. These finished pieces didnt work as well in reality as they did in my head. After seeing the work of Cecile Mondrile I decided take a new route and made a doll figure from the gopro footage.

Cloth, ink ,thread.

This figure made me rethink my proposal I realised I was more interested in how the process changed the subject into a whole new entity rather than the psychogeographical nature of my work.

Memory object- Shirt

I scanned in all my sketchbook drawings and fit them together in Sequence and altered the levels for screen.

Printed on 3 cotton sheets of fabric

Fabric and pattern

Detail of the fabric. Some of the line drawings didn't come through but Pa told me afterwards when he saw them if I put more extender in the ink that they'd work so I'll know for the next time.

sleeve

Shirt in progress

Front 

Back

Embroidery

 The embroidery workshop with Marion after easter was so beneficial to my work. I had dappled with embroidery before on  paper but never on cloth with an embroidery hoop and I feel that this is where I want to go with my work in the future.

http://www.art21.org/artists/mark-bradford