Chapter 2 Design work Spiral 'Warm up' exercises

This chapter shows how papers and corrugated cardboard can be twisted, cut and manipulated into different spiral designs.

Colours selected are purple and yellow, complementary colours on the colour wheel and contrasting especially where shades of the colour work with hues of the complementary colours.

Papers used included cartridge, newspaper and tissue and samples of each are shown

Examples of twisted shapes are shown here:
First using tissue and wire to help
The next two using painted cartridge

To develop the spirals further I selected music as the inspiration.
I used some of the images shown in chapter 1, but added others as shown here
I was particularly drawn to string instruments.

Here are the examples in sequence

Using corrugated cardboard here are examples
The first plain brown cardboard on a gold painted surface

Second cardboard painted one side purple the other yellow stuck to a purple surface
Added a few spiral shavings as cleared the flat surface off the cardboard.

For the monoprinting I would like to develop the images of string instruments, harps and violins, but also bringing in other spirals such as the celtic designs as adapt the initial image (see page 9), and spirals found on musical scores. 
I want to manipulate images using the computer but am possibly limited in what I can do.
However I have used a recommended website
http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/scribblertoo/
and this is what I've achieved so far:

Spiralling into colour Chapter 1 Research

Once you start looking for man made and natural spirals it almost spirals out of control.

I started with a topic web

                                       

   

Took all sorts of photographs and collected some internet images, book illustrations and postcards.

I collected them together under different subjects.

In particular, following a weekend of activities including a trip to the Liverpool Philharmonic and visit to Ynys Hir Nature Reserve got me thinking along the lines of music and nature in woodlands.  However I also looked at Celtic spirals.

Here is a collage to give a flavour of musical images:

Collage removed (Copy in file)

The above shows inspiration from music, from the conch shells used in China even today to instruments and features of orchestras.  The topic web highlights many aspects.  

I think I'd like to somehow combine spirals in music with celtic designs.

I was fascinated by the work of Judith Hurst, who kindly allowed me to use a little of her work for educational purposes (see in the top row above) and who I'll mention again. 

I found sketching spirals helpful to better understand how they are constructed.

Different pages were drawn, but here is only celtic and music inspired images.

Celtic spirals:

Spirals found in music:

The Fibonnacci sequence and Golden section is significant in both natural and man made structures (see also Module 2).

The above indicates just some of the research undertaken.

I would like to remove the collage once it has been viewed for copyright reasons.  Although there are many of my own photographs, others are not.  It may also help reduce memory used.