Creative sketch book

                                                   
At the end of my second year I looked at rain forests and palm trees, then developed them into knits. I really like the texture and colour shown in the palm tree and the parrots.

Gift bag and length

 I developed some of my childlike drawings of flowers for a gift bag and a length. I used Photoshop to develop and create the designs.  I used straight repeat designs as well as half drop.

Trends

During February this year I drew some flowers in two different styles - children's and stylised.

Geometric patterns

 I have recently been inspired by geometric patterns, particularly how they are repetitive, lively, fun and  modern. I have used patterns in and around me. Some examples are shown above on the right.  Above left and middle as well as right are sections of my final digital prints. The patterns I have used here are inspired by wires, a plumber wheel, a pen, Sellotape, scissors, a wheel and a circle pattern from a mug. Some of my designs have also been influenced by diamonds.

Final pieces for fashion

Digitally printed final pieces : card piece first, then flower piece above ,mouse piece then owl piece below. All designs were produced in photoshop by scanning in sketchbook pages and developing them there.   My favourite piece is the flower one above as it uses knit as well as print.

2nd year fashion

At the beginning of my second year for 5 weeks, I looked at the theme of Pop-Clash where I looked at some kitsch stuff and put several different objects together to draw from. These pictures are some of my drawings inspired by Audrey Flack's work. My final pieces were developed from these drawings of a mouse, playing cards and a rose.

Gift project

At the end of my 1st year we had a gift project. I based this on birds.

For this project I used Photoshop to develop my scans of some of my sketchbook pages. Quite a few different drawings were used in my clock piece.Where I used 12 different birds I had either machine stitched, French knotted, used oil pastels, wove, drawn or watercoloured.




I also used one of my birds in the card design below for this project as well. I'm sure you can work out which one!