Tutorial & Further Development

During this weeks tutorial I had the chance to take thorough observation over my sketchbook work from the "Future Past" brief. This allowed me to notice the potential and ideas that could be developed as the project progresses. I decided to narrow down which drawing I really wanted to focus on to develop into successful embroidery samples, prehaps using parts of other drawings.

My strengths throughout this were the technical patterns created using tracing paper from my simple motifs and 

drawings. My weaknesses were the refinement of my colour pallett and the lack of texture in my work, I will develop on this by layering my tracing paper patterns over drawings and different textured surfaces - almost like a collage. 

To help me progress my ideas and collage, I researched artists on Pinterest and came across an artist called Robert Kelly, he uses inspiration from the De Stijl movement to masterfully build his surface with the tools of line, form and colour - his work is composed of linear drawings in equal segments re-arranged to create a jumbled/abstract form. 

After trialling this technique I wanted to marry this with the block patterns created in my early work, therefore I took time to research into styles of patterns. As I was doing this I discovered Nancy Straughan an interior designer and wallpaper artist, she's also contextually what I'm aiming for as a target audience. 

I took simple drawings from the Future Past sketchbook, in particular the Downing Archive and created a repeat print with this, which was then translated into a block pattern and used in the style of Nancy Straughan.

To help translate more texture (stitch) into the patterns I used an App called "Kaleido Lens", for this you take an image and the App turns it into a repetitive Kaleidoscope pattern. This was helpful as it abstracted my tracing paper patterns and aided the selection of fabrics and textures.