Week Thirteen

This week I have been cutting more circles out for the purpose of creating new patterns. This time I have been using images of tapestry that I have created, trying to change the feel of the pattern. It has become apparent from my experience in embroidery that tapestry can be a long process to get right. Therefor I felt this was an idea opportunity to create patterns with the tapestry prints onto them. This would make the process quicker as well as effective. 

This idea came from the fashion designer Giles Deacon who has created garments such as the ones below which contain printed tapestry and embroidery on them. I find these images especially inspiring because of my personal love of embroidery and beadwork.

Week Twelve

This week I have been to the digital print room and printed my patterns on a silk viscose, which I particularly liked, this has almost given a different feel to the patterns by the distortion the circles get from being printed on such fabric which I feel gives it a looser feel. Printing on this fabric can also appear to make the colours more muted and give it a more luxurious feel. I feel the fabrics I have been currently working with definitely say fashion but I would like to stretch these fabrics by finding more unusual media. I have been using the prints this week to create samples for my series and have done these by covering buttons and using plastics as well as mixing it with my hand cut sequins. This works as I feel the hand process of cutting the circles gives it a more organic feel as they are not all perfectly circle and I quiet like that they are not. The sequins have been taking me longer than I thought but I feel the process is good and it getting quicker with practice. I also find the contrast between the beautiful silk and plastic laminates interesting with experimentation of weights. 

Week Eleven

These samples above show the hand cut sequins combined grid like embroidery sewn onto thicker fabrics. These ideas came from the previous samples where I used a grid to make sure all my sequins where straight. I wondered how it would look if the grid were there as a permanent and experimented with colour. These colours come from the small shot of colours found on the painting I feel this bring a slightly different dimensional and again creates a contemporary feel.

Week Ten

Here you can see some of my samples for this week,I have spent my week cutting out circles of printed laminates to create sequins to use within my own work. I have been experimenting with different types of thread to sew them with and different weights and coloured backgrounds in order to find fitting methods. I find my sequins another way to create my patterns on fabric instead of just digital print the sequins create a more three dimensional look which I feel affective. I find the plastic and delicate fabrics an interesting combination and feel it gives the patterns a contemporary feel.
Sequins always appear to be iridescent or coloured not patterned so I thought this would be an unusual experiment seeing how these could work and so far I would say I was very pleased with them.
This has led me on to the research of fashion regarding to sequins and the use of them within garments.These images below show how my hand cut sequins could be used within a similar context.

Week Nine

This week I have had my prints digitally printed on to single silk georgette, I feel this particular material holds a delicateness in which connects to the original patterns which began within the inspiration of the butterfly wings which were of beauty and delicate.  

Week Eight

After creating numerous patterns with my circles I now wanted to use them within my work but I needed to find a way to transfer them onto fabrics, as my samples were going to be aimed towards a fashion and textiles audience. I tried various ways of transferring them over from cellulose thinner, Image maker, and printing to printing on canvas then it occurred to me I could transfer my images onto fabric using the digital technique. I thought this was a great contrast to the work I was trying to create with hand processes and gave good contrast to contemporary and the traditional which is something I always like to challenge. After the printing on canvas paper which is printed by inkjet I had an idea to cut my patterns into circles again but was not happy with the quality I was getting from the canvas paper, so decided to try it in another media which was laminate which I felt worked great, creating circles that reminded me of sequins. 

Cellulose thinner 

Canvas print

Image Maker 

Laminate Print 

Week Seven

This week I have been searching and gathering inspiration for the process of sampling. Artists such as Mr Finch whose work I found inspiring has made me think about embroidery especially tapestry like needlework. His work here show butterfly and moths re created by the method of textiles. 

This textile artist has encourage my ideas for tapestry and by that I have continued to look at other tapestry especially in fashion. These images below are from top fashion house, but what they all have in common is their use of floral imagery. This has given me the determination to tapestry my own patterns hoping I could show I different type if new and old that does not have to include florals. 

Below is my sample of embroidery tapestry where I use the ideas of my circle on voile. I feel they have worked well and I love the contrast of thick stitching light fabrics. I realise these are not exactly circle but circles proved difficult to create exact however I feel this unperfect works well and reflects back to my first weeks thoughts.

Week Six

This week I have continued to create patterns with the cut out circles this is in order to created a base for my sample experimentation in which intend to start next week. 

Week Five

After my paintings I started thinking about how I could translate them into my own samples and experimentation work. I realised that it was the interesting marks which drew my interested which included eye shapes on the wings such as the ones below, these gave me the idea of using circles shapes. So I then furthered my ideas with the creation of patterns in which would be made up of circles. This idea to the cutting of circles which to begin with started by cutting out by hand from printed copies of my previously painted wings. This process was taking along time to individually hand cut out circles as I was having to draw the circle on the image before cutting so I investigated other ways I could create the same effect. I found a hand punches within a local craft store this allowed me to cut circles out quicker and more precise. This process still took time as I then has to stick each individual circle on to the paper in order to create the patterns. Although this process took along time I am pleased I stuck at it and used the the hand process instead of using an easier computerised method. I feel this hand approach way of working has given the work a more organic feel and I am pleased with the results.

  

Week Four

The continuation of drawing has filled up this week up, I have been trying to capture some of the unusual colours within the wings and show the marks on the wings to the best of my ability. These paintings are miniature and not much bigger than the real wings they do not appear identical to the butterfly wings and some look more abstract compared to the original wings however I don't mind this. These paintings are created by what I see and I feel as long as I am showing the interesting and amazing marks on these wings which can hopefully be used to help create ideas for the projects sampling. These paintings are small in size for the reason of time, it has taken me a while to get colours right as well as portraying the interesting marks but  I feel this is not a problem as the original butterfly wings are not much bigger and it does not take their beauty away from them. I also realise that from painting in this way I have no got a ready colour way in which I plan to use when I start to sample.