Colour Work

Yesterday we were working from still lives and experimenting with colour. We tried different drawing techniques like using our left hands, not looking at the paper, and drawing with ink on a stick and masking tape. This gave a very abstract effect. Here is one of the pieces I did.

I like how the colours worked out because they look delicate but vibrant. I think that the different colours and media work well together. I also think the drips from the ink give a good effect.

(It's meant to be a rabbit btw)

Weekend Work

Over the weekend I decided to develop the themes that I had collected in a collage as part of the scavenger hunt by using them as a basis for a fabric design. Here are some of the pages from my sketchbook (sorry for the really terrible picture quality)~

 My original collage. My general idea when making this was to find yellow things and interesting type, as well as anything else that interested me. I was carrying on with the theme of bananas that I had already been exploring. A lot of the images came from fashion magazines which gave me the idea of creating some patterns for use in a fashion context.

 My initial designs based on the collage.

 I arranged my images into a repeating pattern and experimented with different colour-ways and effects on Photoshop.

I then used some of my ideas on some clothing designs. I quite like how these have turned out because they are very bold, fun and vibrant.