Beach Huts and Collaboration with The Fashion Lab

I'm very pleased to be collaborating with Fiona from The Fashion Lab - she is putting together an inspiration board for ideas for textile designs for the children's wear market - here is a selection of my work she has for the inspiration board.....


http://thefashionlab.tumblr.com/

- a link to The Fashion Lab blog - really inspirational imagery on there!!!

The work comes from a 'card design' project I did during my textile degree course, and was in response to a brief set by a card company (paperclip) (see some of my cards in early blogs i think) - the work above combined scans of textile prints i did using heat press transfer / disperse dyes (floral and dots) and watercolour, ink and pastel drawing.  There is a fair bit of collage too which is really fun and effective.  

Was really excited the other day because I did some more stationery for my scarfs collection, like an order form etc - Spurred to do it as my scarves (and Southwold collection cushions) are currently on show in Painswick, Stroud, at the Gloucestershire guild of Craftsmen Summer Exhibition. 

How the scarf collection evolved

The scarf collection for my final project for the textiles degree emerged from a group of experimental drawing using some new brush pens.  I'd admired some drawing which seemed to effortlessly combine drawn lines of varying completeness and thickness etc etc. I had actually bought the pens as a (somewhat naive) substitute for chineses brushes, which i really wanted to try out. What emerged from just having a muck around, was some quite free looking images that were very quick and enjoyable to do.  I wanted to keep the colour pallette to a minimum to add impact, and had chosed mustard after a session on looking at colour trends in fashion.

Collection of work - a compilation of styles...

This is a collection of my work over last three years at Bath Spa Uni - the images were compiled to show my different styles, prepared for a submission to a card company 

DEGREE SHOW SNIPIT TEST

This image is based on a paper cut out of Southwold, and various patterns etc from sketchbook.  After working on it digitally, it was printed onto a cushion and a canvas frame for the degree show.  I really loved doing the cut outs - and really pleased with the outcome.  I plan to do lots more of this kind of style.

 

The design above is based on 3 hand drawn exerts from my sketch book for final degree project, which were then ammalgamated on photoshop. As in all the scarves i aimed for no perfectly straight lines and had fun compiling reams of pages of just lines! (#satisfyingstripes) A similar design found its way into my silk scarf collection for the final show.

 

Another design realised in final degree show collection - printed onto linen to make a cushion cover.  Again, based on a photo taken in Southwold, featuring the fantastic lighthouse and Adnams Solebay pub!

Circus watercolour based on photo of somerset circus!

From sketchbook on scarves project - a watercolour based on local circus. It was bit scarey doing watercolour again after what seems like an age, but quite liked the outcome.  Wasnt so keen on its potential for a scarf though - needed some more design work!