Screen Print- Trail and Error

My first attempt with my designs in screen print last week...not quite right!

 

 Here is a little tester of my first print on a basic cotton material base. As I didn't know what pressure to apply to the squeegee once pulled across the screen and knowing how many pulls I need to apply for my print, my outcome came a little to bold and thick for what I was hoping for. 

Also I found it was not showing the detail and intricate mark making within my print, it didn't come through clearly.    



 I learnt from my mistake so I went back and revisited where I went wrong. Thinking perhaps for my next try I should lift my screen by not applying to much pressure on the surface.

I tried by placing two layers of cut small pieces of card either side of my frame lifting away from the surface. 

It went well showing an improvement to my printed designs as I kept trying and testing through the day.  

    

Pattern Structure

 Nearly ready to go into screen...

Excited!! I Am nearly there, ready to put my final base structure to my over all design into screen then the real development will start to begin from there. With placement, colour and how the over all design you want to your exact style and approach will happen...even finding and exploring some new and surprising outcomes that you might not even expect to use.     

 

I firstly started thinking how I want my prints to become and develop into finals! At the beginning I did find it quite difficult and couldn't find the approach easy to be able to combine my initial drawings in form of a pattern (maybe repeat!?). I felt they were not quite combing together in the way I would hope for. So I did a bit of play round with scale, placement through photocopying to see how different effects of placement would capture new and unique shaping...this really helped me!     



 

 

By experimenting with this approach I went for a completely new styling of what I want my final garment fronts to capture. Focusing on a detailed neckline where my print only placed around the neckline or around the shaping of the sleeves, building up in screen print, embroidery and laser cuttings...I am only thinking at this stage! 

 I feel by not covering the whole garment front will really pull out my intricate approach and pattern mark making within my 3 components of what I am wanting to develop into and link together.

 

As I am going through my development stages through print I am wanting to explore and test out colour and placement, I think this will really help me in how I can then develop on wards thinking about linking together embroidery and laser cuttings.

 

Adding texture which I love!!     



Sketchbook Work

 Development Stages!

My work very much reflects on how I present and build up my pages to almost give a design in themselves. 

I love combining my research within my development work showing my connections and link to where I am heading to my final approach to my designs.

Here are just a few of my development pages showing my experiments with mixed media bringing in colour to my initial drawing techniques. Getting me inspired through my designers that I have researched I am able to start thinking how I am wanting to bring all my drawing together and think about repeat, placement and overlay. 
           

 

 

 

Drawing Techniques

My starting point, through primary and secondary source in different drawing techniques...

 

Here are a few samples of how I began with experimenting with mark making, pattern and shape. I found by using techniques such as blind, continuous line observational drawing in mixed media, I  really went in-depth and discovered the unusual new unique mark making that I was creating.

It let me move forward and experiment In different ways giving me surprising pattern which I will follow in development.  

 

 

 

 

 



Colour Pallet!

 Love my colour pallet! 

So Inspired by the natural earthiness of nature I was hoping to make use of a variety to build up texture and approach a layered effect. Thinking of quite subtle colours combined with brief injection of vibrant colour to represent the earthiness of nature but also the bold hints of colour to enhance and lift focal patterning.

 

I feel I have chosen the right direction in my tone to colour by bringing together all my mix of inspiring colours through my past and future work.

I am looking forward into my journey through experimenting and testing out how my combinations in my development stages, experimenting with colour and texture through my sketchbook work in to my embroidery samples will give unusual outcomes and effects.   

 

Product Development in Textiles and Surface Design

 

We have finally arrived at are final project of the year! 

 

Having been working on it for a good 6 weeks now, intense pressure is building up as the deadline approaches. I thought I would take you to my starting point where it all inspired me to focus on...Microbiology!

 

Always been influenced my natural/organic forms in my work. I did struggle at the start of how I can take this further and have a different approach on natural elements, I was afraid I would fall back into my usual similar habits of going into my comfort zone of floral motifs but researching in depth also reflecting back on my previous work and unique style I decided to look in closer thinking detail, mark making which lead me to microscopic organisms made up of cells. 

 

I am wanting to capture the incredible mark making and pattern formations that cells can create. Through intense magnification, the different layers beneath the surface and the actual shapes and patterning of the cell structure, cluster arrangements they provide. I feel it gives a rich new world of amazing and surprising decorative surfaces which I would love to explore into.     

   

 

 

Here are a few examples of an in-depth study of microscope organisms which have really inspired me and taken me through development work with pattern mark making, shape, structure and detail.  

 

 

Vintage Bazaar- Horsley Studio's

On this weekend....A must see!
April 13th- 14th
10am- 4pm
 

Looking forward into having a little trip to the Hearth Horsley Studio's this weekend with my family as we enjoy looking round all the different stalls and seeing the unquie designs and range of new creations.       

The Hearth will be hosting stalls selling retro homeware, fashion accessories and all things vintage, which is one of my main inspirations.  

Even having a little treat in the coffee shop is very tempting...  

 

www.thehearth.co.uk