Testing With A Final Plant Design

These are some images of one of my final plant designs.  I first tried it on cotton with another colour in the length that I wanted to use to see how it would look.  The top image is an example of this and whilst it looks effective, the images are a little bit too close together so I knew I had to move them and have a bit more space in between each one.  The second and third images are one of the final designs using the white pigment on the linen as I wanted to see how the full design looked on the length of fabric I wanted to use.

Final Plant Designs

These are the designs that I am going to use to screen print with white pigment on to linen.  They will be screen printed on to long lengths and dropped vertically in my final degree show so you get to see the full effect of the design.  My designs are aimed at being used for interiors and rather that than make something out of all of the fabric designs, I wanted to people to see the full potential and think about what they could be used for.

Plant Design Ideas

These are some ideas for my plant designs to be screen printed on to linen with with pigment.  The two plant shapes are the ones I want to use on the linen and I was playing around with composition, colour and the positive and negative of the cut out plants.

Plant Sampling On Linen

After deciding that I wanted to screen print my plant collection on linen with white pigment, I chose to do some samples with one of the cut out plants that I was going to use.  I used the positive and negative of the cut out to make sure I was getting the look I wanted.  It worked well so I decided to stick with this method for my final designs for the plant designs to be put on linen.  Although I wanted to just use white pigment, I decided to try another colour to see if it worked which I was also pleased about as I think using some colour also works well and is something I can think about doing if I wanted to move on from using white pigment on its own.

Lana MacKinnon

Birds And Fish

Leaves

Birds Of A Feather

Mobiles

Lara MacKinnon was a designer that created designs for both fashion and interiors.  It was worth me looking at her work as a source of research as she used simple but effective techniques such as the simple lined drawings and collaged effect like those in Leaves and Birds Of A Feather.

Sisters Gulassa

These are a small selection of images and work created by Sisters Gulassa.  I have found them really beneficial to look at.  Not only do they use a variety of bright colours, but they also use a collection of block paintings and drawings as well as lined drawings, collage and what looks like tracing/transparent paper within their work.  As some of my work involves lined drawings, a cut out and collaged effect and tracing paper, it was useful to see how they used these techniques and combining them with composition to create the images they wanted.

Cut Out Work Reversed

I was experimenting with some cut out work of plant shapes and decided to scan them so I had the option to create some ideas and designs on photoshop or illustrator.  The sun happened to be shining and as my work went through the scanner, the wrong side was the side I saw and as the sun was shining, it was also shining through the brown paper with the cut out plants to create a different effect that I thought could be used as part of my collection.