The grand vision for this piece has already gone through several evolutions and I’m sure will go through more in the future. Originally it was going to be about 7+ feet long and about 4 feet high. That seemed daunting to handle and I felt it might look like a block of wallpaper on the curved wall where it will live.
So I proposed splitting it into two horizontal parts:
rough sketch for curved wall 1
Everyone seemed happy with this, But then I had the brainstorm to make the separation between the two parts a curve that would echo the lines in the piece:
Alternate shape
I got a thumbs up for that and so submitted a sketch with the new shape:
Design in grayscale
This started as a color study-but my pastels and colored pencils ended up looking garish. So I put it into grayscale ( a very useful tool in Photoshop!) and did some photoshop tweeking. This is generally my working sketch at the moment…though the internal elements will morph as I go along.
Karen Kamenetzky Fiber Art 
April 12, 2012 at 1:06 am |
It’s looking very interesting. Is it derived from a particular type of cellular structure? I like the split you made. I would have thought of following the shapes of the piece, but this ties it back together better. Thanks for sharing!
April 12, 2012 at 7:43 am |
Good question! I did try at first to follow the lines of the piece but decided I liked the lines to pull the viewer’s eyes flow from one shape to the other. It’s not based on any overall cell imagery-totally invented!