'Doing' my idea

Instead of continually thinking about it I thought I'm just going to get on and do it and see if it works !

My idea was to create rooms using machine embroidery by asking people to look into their homes and photograph gere favourite room/corner/object/collection anything that's personal to them so I could translate it with a modern take on the word stitch and highlighting objects within that room using fabric I have designed printed and made to translate their personality !

So here are some of my line drawings so far ... 

Ellen's dressing table 

Original photograph.

Saskias favourite book- original photograph.

My drawing.

Marias bedroom - original photograph.

Linear drawing.

Machine embroidery of linear line. Easily translated into stitch ! 

This is a print from ba7, I will use these to cut up and incorporate into people's room to express personality....

The blue isn't really working here due to high contrasts that does not compliment ...

I like the delicate looking pleats here adds a feminity to the piece which incorporates a watercolour digital print and traditional hand embroidery to encompass the skills I have learnt. In doing this Aswell it contextualises my prints into a interior context. 

Inspiration: Laura McCafferty

Laura McCafferty is inspirational similar to Tori Murphy due the fine black lines highlighting shape within their work and with their shared interest in interior objects.

I am particularly interested in Lauras work due to the large scale machine embroidery illustrations that have slightly more character due to the print choices that make it more personal to the user. This is something I am interested in doing within my work- to try to depict the personality of the user within that interior environment through the use of print and pattern. These of which I can then use within my own large scale textile illustrations to highlight the importance of objects and build up a visual collection of character.

Inspiration: Tori murphy

Tori murphy is an illustrator and I found her work on 'WGSN's sister website : 'homebuildlife' and have fallen in love and it has given me some of the best initial ideas that suit both my style and ideas. She works within the interior and focuses on still life (something I am very much focusing on throughout my dissertation and the idea of bringing objects alive through print)
She has beautifully photographed houses in a creative way…

From these thoughtful compositions she has translated these further into her illustrations which I absolutely love and can see these as stitch, and have the thought of starting my initial ideas of as stitch drawings that can later be framed within my degree show.

I feel very much motivated to start my project off well. As previously I have not connected with my work as much as I would have liked to have done. This already has a strong personal connection with myself as a person and that is what my work is all about - the connection between objects and the viewer, so to have my work connect with me through inspiration strongly supports this.

How do you gather inspiration?It could be while having a cup of coffee and simply appreciating the silhouette or glaze of a mug, or spending time in a hotel and observing how people interact with the furniture - I like to see the personality in objects and scenes.  Interiors magazines and books are constant sources of new ideas and stores like Liberty and 10 Corso Como always inspire me to see how beautiful things can be. Most of all though, I am a true believer that our environments are an extension of our personalities and by seeking out inspiring people, you will find inspiring things around them.

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By Lucy Hayes, WGSN, 18 November 2011

Illustrator

Illustrator Workshop.

-Learning how to make presentation boards that conform to grids and guidelines so that it is possible to make design boards and present our ideas consistently and professionally. The task was slightly long winded, however after each clipped mask and section crops I got there and have managed to present inspiration, colour chips and context images.

These are the images we used:

Using these images, I have placed them neatly within grids; it demonstrates clearly the imagery, colours and how they are applied to a textile application.

 I have found that this has been a really useful exercise and will hope to use this within my own work throughout my project. Colour is extremely important to my work so this will help me focus and use my imagery to apply different colour ways.

Consertina sketchbook

As I am aiming towards full length prints that I can then compose within a screen with contrasting yet complimenting prints side by side I thought the best way to present my ideas was to invest in a concertina sketchbook so that I can pick out elements from my a3 sketchbook and re draw them to refine and collect these within the book mapping both my journey and seeing visually how my ideas work side by side.

I'm really happy with the progression of these, although the scale is slightly too small so will use this idea as a basis of what works well together and then what I will take forward to develop on a larger scale.

Colour

My colours needed to be worked on so although I'm keeping the same colour palette from last time I'm injecting some fresher colours in to make the colors seem brighter !

Orange

Turquoise-

Pale green -

China blue- 

Bright pink to inject character- 

Candy pink to layer and add contrast-

Yellow to compliment the blue and make the colour go pop!

These are secondary colour inspirations however my colours have been established from popular objects around the houses I am looking into.different tones and shades will alter in dyeing and printing process due to creating a colour way for each fabric length to show the flexibility of the designs.

Painting flowers

Using the medium of gouache to make drawings has really helped me progress within my drawing capability.

I have tried to stay true to the colour that I am translating so that my colour is extremely accurate and bright as this is something I need to develop and perfect throughout ba8!

Here I have identified areas of interest and enlarged them to capture more detail that I can then work with on a repetitive design or further develop them through mark making.

Drawing marks

From establishing marks I am then able to enlarge and compose together side by side in panels as if they were constructed within a screen as that is what my final outcome is to be.

It was a great was to visualise how an organic, realistic interpretation responds with a mark making abstract pattern. Due to having a common factor of the same tones of blue means they celebrate one another and therefore compliment each other.

I thought I could develop this drawing further by bringing in an accent color however it did not work and therefore is now not what I hoped to have achieved. However I have learnt from my mistakes and will not be incorporating these two colours together in this way again. 

New drawings from original imagery

These are some of my initial drawings again of the same object, to refresh my imagery and identify marks I may have not captured as closely last time.

Doing this allowed me to pay extra attention to what worked well and what didn't, the tonal quality was much better with the attention on the marks which is what I want to achieve within my future prints.

However these are quite delicate and dainty and does not fit the requirement of block abstract prints. Identifying details within objects is useful for me to start to develop further and to combine with other drawings to make large compositions as a summary of my research.

Patchwork workshop

I have really benefited from the workshop, as we were exploring the tonal qualities of objects, and how we use colour to capture these. We looked at flowers sticking to a rigid 4 tone colour, me and Edwina chose pinks. Our brief was to draw a ditsy, stripe and a realistic drawing so we could patchwork these together. 

I really benefited from this workshop, as my practice hasn't got off to a flying start due to the fact that I have to many ideas going on, so I have applied this to my own work to get combinations of drawings that compliment each other but yet contrast in drawing styles.

I have got a great app that takes out colour from the lense of the colour and cress colour stories (see above) which I used to create my tonal qualities applying the same rules as I did in the workshop, using white was not included in the tonal count.

I chose to do some squares that were focused on mark making rather than stripes as this depicts details of the flowers and brings the features alive.