The last couple of days I've been getting excited about the workshop at The Weaver's School in Coupeville, WA. Last year I asked Madelyn if she would teach the drawloom and she agreed. So now my mind is exploding with all things drawloom. The history of drawlooms, the countermache loom with a drawloom extension, the types of drawlooms etc. In fact I got way ahead of myself, for that reason, I decided to just focus on creating an image that I could weave on the drawloom if there is time.
I decided to work on some of the challenge problems provided at the end of the chapter regarding pentagons and the Golden Ratio. The first one I tried was to create a Golden Rule (see picture below) with the length of the Golden Rectangle being the length of my middle finger. It turned out really interesting, the slant was perfect for my hand and the rectangle at the bottom (the Golden Rectangle) was exactly where my knuckles lay. When I sketched in some fingers it didn't look half bad, and it was solely because I followed the golden rule (not that golden rule, though I try to follow that too, this is a geometrical golden rule). The next exercise was to draw a star using a circle with a diameter greater than 2 inches. From the circle I made a pentagon and then I used the Golden Cut to bisect the pentagon's sides and used that to find the inner part of the star. I haven't decided on an icon to create for my upcoming class at the Weaver's School but I'm on a good path. Tomorrow I'll look at a Celtic design book I rented from the library. It has a quick and easy method for drawing Celtic knotwork. Then I'll combine these two and see where I go.
Lastly, I've found this amazing website called 'The Art of Process', I look at it as the Universal Patterns book expanded. Her current project is looking at the structures of sea life and creating geometric drawings based on what she sees. I dream of going to one of her workshops someday. Heck even joining her tutorials would be amazing, all in good time. First I need to play with a drawloom!
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