Today has been a creative block in this project. Painting the leaves haven't quite turned out how expected. I've experimented with a few different styles of painting.
First I wanted to look at having defined colour sections. To do this very little water was used this was the colours couldn't blend. This doesn't work well because the aim of water colour paints is to blend to form a nice tonal range. This piece hasn't got a good blend of colours and therefore to me doesn't work well. However I will experiment with it in photoshop to see if it can be salvaged but there is very little photoshop can do in this aspect.
The second method I tried above was being a lot looser with the paint and and letting it blend with a lot of water into the shapes of the leaves. Whilst it was wet i scratched out the skeleton from the paint. This has had quite a good affect because the edges aren't neat they are jagged and represent a leaf better. They also feed in well to the concept I'm trying to work with exploring home made natural so that the customer feels like they are valid amount of money on an expensive photo frame because it feels individual to them. This is a method I will experiment with further. The next issue is finding a good typeface and fitting it into the design and also exploring creating an outline because the loose paint needs to be contained as otherwise it feels to free.
Here shows one page of experimentation with creating an outline. ideally I would like white as well to highlight aspects. I will experiment with tipex and white pens to create this. However it may then become over sketched and not actually look hand made anymore. Another way of getting the white over line but keeping it felt personal and hand made is by stitching over the top by hand. This would also add texture and pull the viewer in to feel it which would give them more time to want to buy the photo frame.
This is an idea I will look at on a smaller scale but it could also provide and answer to how the text could be created and an overall outline.
Another method I wanted to look at was something that was brought up in the brief about cutting a stencil out of the leaf. This was hard to do on watercolour paper because the blade struggled to cut against the paper with enough force to cut it but whilst being gentle enough to not ruin the paint or to get the accurate curves of the numbers and letters. This would be a lot easier on normal paper but the problem is that watercolour ink doesn't work well on a low quality paper. The problem of getting smooth lines would still be there. One way to get around this would be to use a laser cutter.
This lead me on to the idea of cutting the leaf out of colour rather than painting a leaf. I initially tried this on the computer as you can see. However this hasn't worked at all! It looks like some weird free background. The colours look tea stained and the smooth edges just completely contradict the affect I was going for.
From now on I will go back to the original watercolour idea and experiment with typography for that and try and progress those further as they work well in a set.
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