Assignment 2 - Application of design idea

I have now started to put together my design ideas. while doing the experimenting it was always in the back of my head and I had a few ideas that I jotted down but now that I am sitting down and putting ideas together I am finding that I am not happy with them and not sure which way to go. Also I have found that I am not happy with the colours in my sketch book. They are a reflection of the colours that I was drawing but I feel that the colours would look dull and dated.

While looking through the latest edition of Elle decoration I come across a colour scheme that I really like and feel would bring my designs up to date. It is yellow, green, black and white. I saw a top the over day that I love in H&M that was the same colours. its is fresh, bold and bright. So I think I will use this in my design.

 

Pages from July 2013 edition of Elle Decoration

 

Here are the design that I came up with. Some are better than others! I ended up having two final ideas that I liked. The first was the nuts and bolts idea and another based of a photo of a sand mill.

 

 

Assignment 2 stages 2 & 3 continued...

Since my last post I have continued with the experimenting with the different techniques. Here are some of my prints:

I experimented with using torn paper and just used monochrome colours. The image was very simple but it gave me a feel for the effect that I could get from printing in this way. the bottom right was the most successful. over laid the torn image in different shades of grey.

 

With this image I used striped of masking tape stuck to the screen, making a striped pattern in a square. I used discharge paste on different fabric to see what effect I would get as I had never used it before:

 

 

 

 

These two fabric were a wool mix, fabric that is used to cover snooker tables.

 

The poly cotton on the right was only faint.

 

 

tried using already printed fabric to see how it would look.

 

I then used the same imaged and printed with the monochrome colours again. The first image bleed I think that was because there was to much water added to the fabric paint which I did to make it go a little further. Then I played with repeating the image and printing it on different coloured fabrics.

I tried printing with Vilene and it was more successful. I  quickly painting a simple repeat pattern onto the Vilene ( stencil bottom right) and used 3 shades colours Yellow, red and blue. I first printed the yellow and then red over the top. On the second print I pulled more red through the screen which gave me the darker orange colour and finally on my final print I pulled the red through and then used a small amount of blue. By the last print the image was becoming less but it gave an interesting effect. I really like the effect that you get from using this technique. It gives a textured print and I love that the image is not sharp.

 

After my last attempt of using discharge printing I decided to dye my own fabric. I wanted to have a more textured coloured fabric to print on instead of just a flat colour and also I have never used Procion mx dyes before. I tried a layered approach of dying and used 2 colours Golden Yellow and Blue. I also used a pipette to drop the colour onto the fabric and a sponge. I dyed some fabric a flat blue, yellow and green as well to use up the dye. I did not have a lot of time so the colours were not very strong as I did not leave the fabric in the dye for s long as I would have like to but I did get some interesting effects. I hope to find some time in the future to experiment with dyeing fabric and the different techniques that I can be use in future projects.

 

I then experimented with discharge paste on the fabric that I printed. I used a simplified image from one of my drawings in my sketch book and stuck masking tape to the screen and pulled the discharge paste through the screen. The discharge fluid behaved differently on the fabric. the most interesting effects achieved were top right and bottom left. In the top right the darker dyed parts of the fabric remained and did not bleach out and the bottom left which was on a blue/green dyed fabric, the imaged I discharged came out an orange colour.

 

 

As I have gone through this stage of this assignment I feel that I have gain in confidence with using the screen. The last two experiments definitely feel more successful.

Assignment 2 - Screen Printing - Stage 2 & 3

I have started to experiment with the different techniques that can be used when screen printing. Here are some of my experiments:

Here I did two different stencil using sticky back plastic using different shapes from the coil image.  These were done on a large scale (A3). I liked elements of how these came out. I was not happy with the colours it felt a bit too 60's!

 

 

In this experiment I used Vilene (stencil on the right, 2rd in). Although I do not think this was totally successful I do like the effect that I achieved and would like to try this again.

 

 

Assignment 2 - Screen Printing - Stage 1

Here are the drawing I did on the subject manmade:

I started off looking at everyday items I found in the kitchen

 

 

I was not sure if I found the images interesting enough to use for this assignment so I moved on to looking at motorbike parts. The shapes and colours were more interesting:

 

 In these drawing (right) I tried to draw rust. The image on the left is a screen printing experiment using torn paper stencil:

 

While on a walk I came across this building and found the shapes and rust interesting: