Using vinyls

I've been experimenting with using vinyls today. There was a slight mishap using the sheer fabric as my design got stuck to the paper underneath in the heat press. After heating it up again and allowing it to melt, I  was able to peel them apart. Look how fab it looks! I love the colours I have chosen and that little splash of gold.

Mixing Pantone colours

Today I mixed all of my Pantone colours whilst my screen has been drying. I love the colours and I can't wait to start printing.

Weaving

I got given a handmade mini weaving board, so working with threads and wools from my colour palette for my current module, I have began making a mini weave to use as a sample for my project. I can't wait until it's finished.

New knitting techniques

After not being confident with knitting for quite sometime, today I learnt a new stitch, one that I thought was going to be incredibly hard, but amazingly I love it and find it easier that plain knitting.

This stitch is called the loop stitch, and I love the effect it gives with the wool i have chosen; it's so textured. Plus I'm also finding it easier to knit with my new wooden needles.

Re-creating designs with tape

To develop some of my designs I've used electric to tape to highlight some interesting areas with in my drawings. I love the effect it makes, really abstract! Now to screen print it..

Embroidery

I've been interpreting some of my floral photography with some embroidery. Working on felt with threads in my colour palette I've tried being quite abstract. using couching and french knots I think I've created some great texture here, it's nice to do some embroidery again

Putting my colour palette to use

So I've chosen my colour palette: mint green and peaches. So I decided to get drawing with some pro-markers that I had in those colours, I tried to be quite naive when using the pens to create quite rough designs. I like the mark making effect the square ends of the pro-markers have created with the floral study.

Heat transfer

Working on a floral study of a hydrangea I made a tonal watercolour of the flower, then creating an outline in transfer inks I laid them on top of eachother and put them in the heat press to create this effect. I really like it.

Using Promarkers

I have used promarkers to create this design. I love the naivety that the pens create as the ink spreads out, the bright colours also look great. some areas of this design could be picked out in the future as development to create a pattern. 

Drawing from my photographs

Drawing a doorway i spotted in Tynemouth, I've used watercolour paints and fine liner pen to create this study. I love the colours and the different layers of wash I have used. This is definitely something i would like to develop

"Scribble designs"

So to loosen up with my drawings I tried some scribble type drawings with a biro pen. I drew from some of my own photography, focusing on doorways using marking making and some continuous line with the biro. It was nice to use this way of drawing rather than having to perfect shading and tone, I could use a view finder later to draw from some areas, or even to create texture with other methods.