fmp day (3)

On day one I explained that I ran in a problems as I didn't want my print to look like unoriginal wallpaper. My earlier drawings of the iron casts and silverware from the V&A took me to a place I didn't want to be and I didn't know how to move on so I moved on to day two's stain glass window research. by the end of day 3 I have started to find a solution to my wallpaper problem. After advice from my teacher I we concluded collage work was the way forward. I should use the iron cast and silverware drawing to create a series of collages, trace and draw from these to develop a stylized pattern from each. Another suggestion was to look further into the word captured and use this to develop rigid and angular iron cast and silverware drawings. I was also told not to spend time working on intricate and time consuming drawings.

I made a start with the collages, I am surprised at how much these have helped. I have been inspired by the shapes and silhouettes created in the collages and will used this to inform my design work. my next step will be to do a series of illustrations from each collage and to trace of new patterns. 

I have developing the stained glass windows imagery and incorporating the crude 21 century. Stained glass windows were used to pay homage to saints, worship and tell stories. I want to tell the story of the brash teen pop culture era who pout and worship sex. I think this will be a stark contrast to the usual.   
Art and fashion have always gone hand in hand and it seems like it's come back around with the ss14 trends. Artists like Picasso and Matisse and Warhol have inspired many runway prints, they have been seen on Prada, Jean charles de castelbajac and Aquilano Rimando. I want to explore this idea as well as appliqué.

I also started to do roughs of ideas that have been floating about. For the next lesson I want to have completed 50 rough ideas for me to later develop.