Tutorial 1 & Week commencing 13.10.14

Tutorial:-

After the group tutorial about my summer work I was stuck on where to place my work with the current project. In my summer work I tried to work with different colours and media to experiment. I after talking to the group I feel like I don't really want to take most of my summer work into this project apart from the work I did from Turkey as I believe It doesn't relate to the things I've been looking at during the visual research week. 

I'm going to the start doing more Photoshop work and starting to refine my colour pallet as I feel this will start to bring all my work together and I can take into the direction I want to. 

With the visuals from the research week and the visuals from Turkey it was brought to my attention that it had some what of an Islamic twist to it. I've decided to go down that route and see what other research I can gather and develop into drawings and designs. I previous project I've worked on a large scale but I've decided to take a different approach by working smaller to try and make my work more detailed and then I can use the skills I've learnt over the summer in Photoshop and in the upcoming lessons to make them larger and develop them more. 

Personal Practice:-

This week I’ve been thinking mainly about working on my colour palette so it fits perfectly with my concept. At first I had 3 colour images I wanted to use but felt that it was too broad so narrowing it down to make a more refined colour palette. I wanted to use some dark and rich colours to represent the old fabrics what I looked at in the archives. I then chose to have a selection of pastel colours to bring that 21^st century edge to my designs. I’ve also chosen to add gold as well as it brings out the more flamboyant side to what ill be trying to capture within my designs. 

I’ve also been putting my motifs onto screen this week so I can have a print room/ hand done collection along my digital ones. I’m having two collections as I want the hand done ones to feel more rustic in comparison to the digital ones. The motifs I have added to screens are a range of sizes as I wanted to experiment with scale. I’m going to do a series of tester samples and then be selective when choosing to do my final print room collection.