Much of my attention and energy is focusing on my dissertation at the moment, but in my little bits of spare time I have been paper cutting some lovely little beach huts as requested by some family and also packing up my first sale on Folksy!

In other news, I have been being some research for my next final, major project! I have visited the Maritime museum in Liverpool to get some great imagery and my plan is to start drawing next week so keep an eye out... Hopefully be transforming them into some prints in the next couple of weeks. Very excited to get started although a little nervous...

I will be continuing to look at the grandeur of the tall ships but also exploring this idea of personal stories and the detail of the medals and badges... 

I will be posting further designs on here as they are created! In the meantime, I am updating my Folksy page with new screen-prints and products:


http://folksy.com/shops/EmilyKateAtherton

Happy New Year!

Hello and happy new year... I thought I would sum up some of my lastest designs from last year and the previous project! I hope to develop these throughout my final year by looking into further detail and finding more narrative in my designs.

I have tested these designs in many different colours, styles and backgrounds to explore many ways of application and narrative.

This hand-drawing has been inspired by the maritime stories and shapes have been taken from studying the antique maps that are highly decorative and have lavish borders that I can translate into colour.

These screen-prints have been derived from hand-drawings and applied to watercolour paper to create new colours and textures on the surface. 

I have studied many aspects of the maritime theme and looked at a more grandeur way of translating my ideas. This ship will be screen-printed using 5 colours and explored on both paper and fabric surfaces.

This final design explored my previous ideas of repeating the waves but I arranged them and applied them onto fabric to see the variation and transition from paper to fabric. I also wanted to see in what way I could apply this design onto certain products.