Best of British

I recently noticed a competition to design a range of prints for the theme, 'Best of British'. I thought this would be a great opportunity to enjoy some design work outside of daily working! I set about with the theme and thought about different ideas that could represent this 'Best of British'. I have always loved working with nautical ideas and, from living close to the seaside, have always grown up with trips to the beach and sunset strolls. I thought this would be a lovely theme to work on. Below, are a couple of the designs I produced..

New Project!

This week I have been working on some new drawings to start thinking about composing designs for my final, major project! I am sticking with the theme of tall ships and introducing textures with illustration work. This coming week I hope to get down into the print room and start working on some designs!

I like using this illustrative style and I am looking forward to developing these into prints! I have also used my computer skills to play with the colour of the lines on the ship...

Watch this space for printing and designing developments!

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.