Papercut Instructions (Fabric design)

Papercut is one of the traditional crafts that require planning and intelligent decision making to get a satisfactory image. You need to try out different colour combinations to see which effect is what you had in mind.

Start with a sketch of your fabric design. Photocopy as many copies as you need to plan the colours you want. See below for example.

2011 Sec 2N- Colour & Form Part 4

Improving on rendering technique, requires some effort to have the correct tools- the right colour paints, brushes, rag and a CLEAN mixing palette. Makes sure that your paint mixture has enough water mixed in and isn't bone dry. "NEVER USE PAINT DIRECTLY FROM THE TUBE!!!"

2011 Sec 2N- Colour & Form Part 3

When working with colour pencils start from the dark areas / dark colours and work into the highlights / lighter tones.

2011 Sec 2N- Colour & Form Part 2

Creating Form using colour can be done with all types of colour media, colour pencils, paint or even marker pens. See some of the samples below for the difference in intensity of colour between using colour pencils and paint.

2011 Sec 2N - Colour & Form Part 1

In class we discussed the use of Complementary & Analogous Colour sets to create Form / 3-D modelling rendering.
For those of your who did not take this down the sets are:

Complementary
blue (p) + orange (s)
red (p) + green (s)

yellow (p) + purple (s)

Analogous
blue (p) + green (s) + purple (s)
red (p) + orange (s) + purple (s)

yellow (p) + green (s) + orange (s)