Solid shape design study

As part of chapter 4 I have been playing around with shapes from my sketchbook and preparing designs around those shapes. I drew gumnuts in various forms and in various media. The photo below shows two pages (top) that looked at a representation of the gumnuts, in torn papers and bleach on ink. I developed a flowing shape (in orange, bottom left), from these and created designs from paper cutouts and stamps of this image.

Design 1 (bottom R): diagonal colouring over shape

Design 2: Shape within diamonds
Design 3: rotated and folded shapes

Design 4: New shape coloured in counterchange

Design 5: Shape within overlapping rectangles

Design 6: rectangles cut and replaced

Design 7: strips and displaced shape

Design 8: Shape within letter and writing

Design 9: repeated shapes within lines of writingDesign 10: Figure drawn over the collaged shapes

Design 11: A eye drawn over shapes

Design 12: Collage folded, shape redrawn on top, unfolded then repeated in perpendicular direction

Design 13: negative spaces coloured in collaged design of repeated shapesDesign 14 and 15: negative shapes (striped and solid) from shape collages (eg design 13), in new designs with drawn and ripped verticals
Design 16: Original shapes cut from striped collage of coloured papers, marked outlines of original shape on top

Design 17: Cut, stamped, bleached and dotted shapes of various sizes