Three Takes .... on a Gothic arch

Yesterday's day out has inspired this week's quick creative experiment.  I couldn't get those Gothic arches out of my mind and felt the need to do something with the shape.

I wanted to capture the 3D aspect of the arch itself,

so I printed out the photo, cut away the arch, tucked it underneath the page in my pad and used a wax crayon to take a rubbing.

This formed the outline I needed for my layered, stitched and cut paper piece.  I like the simplicity of the lines and the monochrome colourway,

but could see it working in other colours for lampshade designs, so had a little play with the colour balance tool in Photoshop.

 

If I scaled the width of the arches to fit the diameter it would make an interesting continuous design for a straight-sided drum shade.  What do you think?

(To see my other quick creative experiments in the 'Three Takes ....' series click on the link in the sidebar under Categories).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  

Comments

[VP]

I just snook in to link to your visit to update my blog and found you'd also been inspired! I love seeing how people go through their creative process. Thank you :)

[Piper]

Wow, I'm impressed. The arches look great and I agree - would look very cool on a lampshade (would be great to have 3 different ones with that pattern in the different colors hanging!)

[Mitzi Curi]

I'm impressed as well, and I'm liking Piper's suggestion to hang three different drum shades in a group. That would be magnificent!

[ArtShades]

I love that idea - I might just give it a go, but have a few commissions I must complete first.