Today I set everything up for my final hand in, which will be assessed on Monday morning. I’m so relieved to have gotten it all done! Now all I have left is my textiles futures module. I had one final print to do this morning, a two meter version of my repeat pattern on sandwashed silk
As well as my digital prints for the repeat pattern project, I wanted to have a go at screen printing. I am not the most controlled when it comes to screen printing so I knew it was going to be a challenge, and a learning curve. I am really happy with the way my first print turned out, much better than expected! I was printing on silk chiffon, which is super thin. It got stuck to the table as the dye dried, what a panic! But I got it off, thank heavens!
I was up in the media lab for a good few hours working on my digital prints. I decided to do digital prints of both of the ideas from my last post, to see how they turned out. Here are paper versions to give you an idea!
After playing around with the imagery in my RSA sketchbook I started piecing things together and trying to work out how make a repeatable unit. I tried several different shapes of unit, then photocopied the sketches multiple times so I could piece them together.
I felt that these patterns were pretty resolved, and there wasn’t much room for development or variations. I decided to keep them in mind, but ultimately move on to something different, on a bigger scale. I had quite liked one of the very first sketches in my Pattern sketchbook, so that’s where I continued from.
Our latest project brief is all about the repeat. Going back into our RSA sketchbooks and pulling out the more successful pieces of pattern. Starting out working with quick sketches and then black and white photocopies; collaging and adding more detail, I started to have ideas about what my repeated unit would contain.
Marigold 