design development 3rd assessment piece

Further design thoughts on third assessment piece. On further thoughts the following emerged------ I do intend to use both the blue/green and the purple/blue colourways in the design. The proportions are likely to be one third purple/blue and two thirds green blue. I intend to have a mix of smooth and textured surfaces. I wish to use the textured surfaces to give overall impact to the finished piece. I have experimented with paper compositions in a number of different juxtapositions of the various elements and a selection of these are shown in the six images below. In each image the depth of each individual 'sail 'shape is approx 10 inches while the overall width of the design is between 24 and 30 inches, depending on the configuration. IMAGE 1 In this image there is a series of textured central panels with smooth panels at each end. This uses both colourways and smooth and textured versions of each. This gives good impact at the central third of the panel with the two extremities seeming to fade into the background. IMAGE 2

This uses smooth panels in alternate colourways and a textured band is threaded through the middle of each. This gives less overall impact for the textures than I am trying to achieve. IMAGE 3

This is a placing of an equal mix of textured versions of both colourways in a fairly smooth linear formation. This looks messy and lacks impact points.

IMAGE 4

In this image the background panels are all smooth but they have been arranged in a much more 'jagged' linear formation. A variety of shapes of textured panels have then been overlaid upon their matching smooth colourways with the concentration of purple/ blue in the middle section.

This seems to lead to a loss of definition of shape for the individual elements within the design.

IMAGE 5

In this image there is a similarity to image 4 above but the positioning of the background panels has been levelled out and there is a much more definite 'skyline' in the placement of the background panels. This perhaps gives a greater coherence to the whole but does not give emphasis to the individual shapes. IMAGE 6

In this image the background panels are ,again, smooth but they have been placed in a much more jagged line and their skylines/ foregrounds have been inverted. The background panels have then been overlaid by textured versions of their own colourways in shapes which replicate them but these have been 'teased' out either above or below the mid-line. This gives an element of textured and smooth surfaces across the whole length of the panel. It also gives more definition to the individual sail shapes.

At the moment I am torn between images 1 and 6 .

Images 1 and 6 each , in different ways, seem to combine both smooth and textured versions of both colourways in a pleasing compostion and I know you expressed some concerns in your earlier feedback that trying to achieve this might get too complicated.

In image 1 the impact of the textured panels is concentrated at the central focal point whereas in image 6 it is sustained or continued across the whole surface of the piece.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. I am still playing with all my paper shapes!!!!!