Today I continued research my themes and developed some interesting patterns and motifs as starting points for textile piece.
I taped in the flowers that I'd pressed a couple days before and did some quick blind drawings of them. This was successful because I made some really interesting shapes. However, I don't want to get too caught up with shapes from my research as the main inspiration for my designs because I think it will make my design too one-dimensional and not portray the message I want to put across. Instead I'm going to use these drawings in my textile designs.
I couple of months ago I read an article about a tribe in Ethiopia where the people decorate themselves with flowers, clay, plants and scarification. What I really love about the photos I collected for my research are the vibrant colours of their embellishments so I'm definitely going to use these photos as my main source of colour inspiration.
To start mixing my ideas together I traced some of my drawings and started to blend them to see how the different shapes work together. I also taped in all my photos from the William Morris Gallery and did some collages to start blending my ideas together. I feel like I'm working in a very textile student way right now but I'm enjoying working so closely with pattern, colour and shape as it is not something I usually get to focus on. I feel like by developing own textile will help to inform my designs.
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