Claire studied for BA Graphic and Media design at London College of Communication then went on to attend Central Saint Martins for MA Communication Design
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Claire Scully
Born and bred Londoner Claire Scully takes her inspiration from her surrounding environment yet despite this location her work takes on a very organic feel as she embraces the natural world and the significance of nature within a cities surroundings. Creating whimsical landscapes, playing with scale and detail Claire’s work offers a diverse mix of media with blends of intricate hand drawing, traditional watercolour painting, photography, digital artwork, 3D wooden bird boxes and furniture.
Claire studied for BA Graphic and Media design at London College of Communication then went on to attend Central Saint Martins for MA Communication Design
Claire studied for BA Graphic and Media design at London College of Communication then went on to attend Central Saint Martins for MA Communication Design
Artist/Designer Research
Paul Holland
Intricately rendered images and obsessive detail are Mr Holland’s forte. With a striking linear style applying traditional drawing techniques alongside stark motifs. Often enriched digitally, introducing fanciful dimensions and elements of realism.
Influences lie within the worlds of ‘le freak et le chic’, fashion, music, celebrity and popular culture. Retaining an eye on trends past, present and future, his vivid style lends itself very well to a variety of commissions.
Paul has been a featured contributor in Attitude Magazine and has exhibited in Paris where he is now based. I like the use of drawing and collage within his work and how he incoporates elements of popular culture within his work. He has a bold use of colour and his work is incredibly appealing.
(Source... http://www.illustrationweb.com/illustrators/home.asp?artist_id=3306)
Week 8 (3rd-7th December 2007)
FINAL WEEK!
This week was mainly taken up by mounting work ready for handing in on Friday. Completing my technical file and Evaluation was also completed this week.
Evaluation...
EVALUATION (PT301) Natures Delights…
My original title for this project was “Nature’s Delights” but as my work has developed and progressed over the last few weeks I am renaming it “In a Victorian Secret Garden..” as I feel this is more appropriate.
My concept centred around the theme of nature, whether that be insects, birds or flowers I wanted to combine all these elements in the hope of creating a collection that was reflective of my own personal style. Recognising that this is a very common theme I wanted to make the most of my drawing ability and my original way of working to re-invent what is traditionally a very common trend within the printed textiles and surface pattern industry. Themes and points of reference for drawing were wild flowers, seed pods, butterflies, critters and bugs, birds and leaves.
My main influences were…
Carolina Melis (Illustrator)
Timorous Beasties design house
Eduardo Recife ( Illustrator)
Joanna Basford
William Kilburn
Hannah Cottrell and many more…
The main bulk of my research and inspiration was gathered from looking into Victoriana, particularly entomology and botany. This was done by looking online at blogs etc… and by researching books. I also took a series of photographs of unusual flowers which I saw on my trips out, these were used as grounds to draw from and to inspire a potential colour palette. I knew from early on that I wanted my work to have a antique feel about it so I felt it relevant to research my theme both historically as well as modern day interpretations. Specific books that helped me were “The Picture Book” consisting of contemporary illustration and Drusilla Cole’s “Patterns”.
Original designs and work was predominantly Photoshop based as I originally wanted to work in Photoshop with repeats and bold colours in the hope of digital printing wallpapers. Although I like my early work which is quite graphic, I felt that it wasn’t developing in the ways that I wanted. I felt that my own personal style of working wasn’t with computers and I felt better when I was drawing, painting and using collage.
Luckily I managed to source some old books during this time which were on botany and the Readers Digest guide to gardening which triggered a move in direction for the better. This then triggered the idea of my project been called “In the Victorian Secret Garden”… The books were definitely the best thing that came out of my research for this project and I was very lucky to have found them.
The books were quite old and full of beautiful imagery and text which really inspired me and I felt this suited what I wanted to achieve more. With images that I had found in the books and bits of text I found relevant and my own drawings, I decided to make a large screen to screen print with. Usually I don’t like screen printing but felt the need to produce one as it would speed my work up a lot and give me lots of grounds to work from. I was predominantly working with black ink on newsprint then using these to make compositions with collage and these worked well. As I wanted to make sure I pushed myself and made full use of the print room I decided to try some prints on some pages out of my books and these worked well also as I liked the combination of screen printed images over the text. Once I had a good base of prints I decided it was a good idea to leave screen printing anymore. I like to play around with various processes with my work so I also produced a few mono-printed designs which were combined with my prints which were then used to collage over.
I personally feel that my work has developed a lot, but mainly it developed the most during the last few weeks of the project. During these weeks I introduced the foxglove motif and created the large scale painted foxglove. I really like these and although the pink is a little brighter than I anticipated I felt by experimenting with colour, scale and the 3D element helped me develop my other designs further. I wanted to produce a small collection of book ideas that had come about by mistake (as usual with my work) I like to use the photo-copier a lot and I’m lucky enough to have a small A4 printer/scanner/ photo-copier at home. I thought that it may be interesting to scan in a some book pages and then layer up with other imagery to create these beautiful book pages. These were sewn together as if they were a book. It was mentioned in one of my tutorials that it may be a good idea to have things growing out of the seams, and this was something that worked really well.
COLOUR…I always struggle when it comes to using colour as it is something that often intimidates me. I often like to play safe and use a limited colour palette of purples and blues and feel that his can often let my work down. I knew that I wanted to explore colour a lot more within this project and it was something that needed careful consideration throughout the development process. I looked at Victorian colours which are often bold, but not too bold. My books were also a good source of inspiration for my colour palette. Pinks, Greens, Yellows, Creams and lilacs were used and I like the subtle use of colour throughout my work.
CONTEXT… I see my work as been quite versatile and this is always a good thing. Although I haven’t designed my collection with a specific market in mind as I just don’t work in this way. I see my Book collection as been designs for artist books which are great as pieces to look at and admire. There are elements of my print collection and design collections which I can see as been used in stationary, bedding, interior fabrics etc.. Particularly my garland pieces of sweet peas and butterflies I see as been possible ideas for unusual wall coverings. Unusual as they would be attached to the wall wherever (not on a roll) Overall I like the idea of my work been as one off design pieces or textile art/ Illustrations.
I really wanted to be very experimental with this project, aiming to push myself to my best ability in the hope of creating a very professional and concise concept and design collection. Although I struggled at the beginning of the project I feel that I have spent a lot of time in developing my work the best I can. Scale is something that I often struggle with as I am not too keen on working on a large scale. For this project I have tried to stick to A4 or bigger designs in order to create a more professional looking collection. I feel that I have made a strong collection of designs and feel that I have developed this in a progressive way. Overall I am extremely happy with the collection I have created.
This week was mainly taken up by mounting work ready for handing in on Friday. Completing my technical file and Evaluation was also completed this week.
Evaluation...
EVALUATION (PT301) Natures Delights…
My original title for this project was “Nature’s Delights” but as my work has developed and progressed over the last few weeks I am renaming it “In a Victorian Secret Garden..” as I feel this is more appropriate.
My concept centred around the theme of nature, whether that be insects, birds or flowers I wanted to combine all these elements in the hope of creating a collection that was reflective of my own personal style. Recognising that this is a very common theme I wanted to make the most of my drawing ability and my original way of working to re-invent what is traditionally a very common trend within the printed textiles and surface pattern industry. Themes and points of reference for drawing were wild flowers, seed pods, butterflies, critters and bugs, birds and leaves.
My main influences were…
Carolina Melis (Illustrator)
Timorous Beasties design house
Eduardo Recife ( Illustrator)
Joanna Basford
William Kilburn
Hannah Cottrell and many more…
The main bulk of my research and inspiration was gathered from looking into Victoriana, particularly entomology and botany. This was done by looking online at blogs etc… and by researching books. I also took a series of photographs of unusual flowers which I saw on my trips out, these were used as grounds to draw from and to inspire a potential colour palette. I knew from early on that I wanted my work to have a antique feel about it so I felt it relevant to research my theme both historically as well as modern day interpretations. Specific books that helped me were “The Picture Book” consisting of contemporary illustration and Drusilla Cole’s “Patterns”.
Original designs and work was predominantly Photoshop based as I originally wanted to work in Photoshop with repeats and bold colours in the hope of digital printing wallpapers. Although I like my early work which is quite graphic, I felt that it wasn’t developing in the ways that I wanted. I felt that my own personal style of working wasn’t with computers and I felt better when I was drawing, painting and using collage.
Luckily I managed to source some old books during this time which were on botany and the Readers Digest guide to gardening which triggered a move in direction for the better. This then triggered the idea of my project been called “In the Victorian Secret Garden”… The books were definitely the best thing that came out of my research for this project and I was very lucky to have found them.
The books were quite old and full of beautiful imagery and text which really inspired me and I felt this suited what I wanted to achieve more. With images that I had found in the books and bits of text I found relevant and my own drawings, I decided to make a large screen to screen print with. Usually I don’t like screen printing but felt the need to produce one as it would speed my work up a lot and give me lots of grounds to work from. I was predominantly working with black ink on newsprint then using these to make compositions with collage and these worked well. As I wanted to make sure I pushed myself and made full use of the print room I decided to try some prints on some pages out of my books and these worked well also as I liked the combination of screen printed images over the text. Once I had a good base of prints I decided it was a good idea to leave screen printing anymore. I like to play around with various processes with my work so I also produced a few mono-printed designs which were combined with my prints which were then used to collage over.
I personally feel that my work has developed a lot, but mainly it developed the most during the last few weeks of the project. During these weeks I introduced the foxglove motif and created the large scale painted foxglove. I really like these and although the pink is a little brighter than I anticipated I felt by experimenting with colour, scale and the 3D element helped me develop my other designs further. I wanted to produce a small collection of book ideas that had come about by mistake (as usual with my work) I like to use the photo-copier a lot and I’m lucky enough to have a small A4 printer/scanner/ photo-copier at home. I thought that it may be interesting to scan in a some book pages and then layer up with other imagery to create these beautiful book pages. These were sewn together as if they were a book. It was mentioned in one of my tutorials that it may be a good idea to have things growing out of the seams, and this was something that worked really well.
COLOUR…I always struggle when it comes to using colour as it is something that often intimidates me. I often like to play safe and use a limited colour palette of purples and blues and feel that his can often let my work down. I knew that I wanted to explore colour a lot more within this project and it was something that needed careful consideration throughout the development process. I looked at Victorian colours which are often bold, but not too bold. My books were also a good source of inspiration for my colour palette. Pinks, Greens, Yellows, Creams and lilacs were used and I like the subtle use of colour throughout my work.
CONTEXT… I see my work as been quite versatile and this is always a good thing. Although I haven’t designed my collection with a specific market in mind as I just don’t work in this way. I see my Book collection as been designs for artist books which are great as pieces to look at and admire. There are elements of my print collection and design collections which I can see as been used in stationary, bedding, interior fabrics etc.. Particularly my garland pieces of sweet peas and butterflies I see as been possible ideas for unusual wall coverings. Unusual as they would be attached to the wall wherever (not on a roll) Overall I like the idea of my work been as one off design pieces or textile art/ Illustrations.
I really wanted to be very experimental with this project, aiming to push myself to my best ability in the hope of creating a very professional and concise concept and design collection. Although I struggled at the beginning of the project I feel that I have spent a lot of time in developing my work the best I can. Scale is something that I often struggle with as I am not too keen on working on a large scale. For this project I have tried to stick to A4 or bigger designs in order to create a more professional looking collection. I feel that I have made a strong collection of designs and feel that I have developed this in a progressive way. Overall I am extremely happy with the collection I have created.
Japanese Book Binding
1. Usinga ruler, draw a line from top to bottom of the front cover, about 1/4"from the spine. Make two marks on this line, one 1/4' down from the top of the book, the other 1/4" up from the bottom. Now divide the distance between these marks into thirds and mark the two middle points.
2. Even up the pages and clamp the book together with binder clips, or weight down the front edge to keep the pages from moving. Protect your work surface with a piece of scrap wood or an old phone book as you punch a hole at each of the marked points using the awl or wire brads.
Making these holes should not damage the text in the book. Most paperback books have an inner margin of 1/2" to 3/4", leaving plenty of room for rebinding.
3. Thread the needle and tie the ends together with an overhand knot. Open the book a few pages and, next to the lower middle hole, push the needle through about twenty pages. Pull the thread through until the knot is snug against the pages. Go back out to the front cover by pushing the needle up through the awl hole. This step anchors the thread.
4. Now sew the rest of the book as shown in the accompanying illustrations. Pull the thread tight each time you go through a hole.
Go around the back and back up through the starting hole, then down through the other middle hole. Pull the thread tight after going through each hole.
Around the back again, then up through the top hole.
Around the back, then...
...around the top of the spine and up through the top hole again. Keep going, down through one middle hole, back up through the next, and down through the bottom hole. Keep the thread tight.
Around the back again and...
...around the bottom of the spine and back through the bottom hole. Go up through the starting hole again.
To finish, tie off the thread so the binding won't come loose. Do this by slipping the needle under two of the top threads coming out of starting hole and back through the loop to form a tight knot.
Run the needle back down through the starting hole and cut the leftover thread flush with the back of the book.
(Source-http://www.sff.net/people/Brook.West/bind/bindit.html)
Week 8 (26th-30th November 2007)
During this week the book idea was discovered. I wanted to produce a small collection of book ideas that had come about by mistake (as usual with my work) I like to use the photo-copier a lot and I’m lucky enough to have a small A4 printer/scanner/ photo-copier at home. I thought that it may be interesting to scan in a some book pages and then layer up with other imagery to create these beautiful book pages. These were sewn together as if they were a book. It was mentioned in one of my tutorials that it may be a good idea to have things growing out of the seams, and this was something that worked really well. Looking into book binding techniques and ways of sewing the pages together was crucial for development.
Tutorial Notes...
Tutorial Notes...
- Start to mount finished pieces. (white card)
- Complete 3D work on card (foxglove)
- More line drawing if time to generate new imagery
- Swags/Garland/ Trailing pieces.
- Trapping/growing element. out of book seems to incoporate the 3d element into work
Week 7 ( 19th- 23rd November 2007)
This week I decided to do some mono-prining in order to generate some new imagery. During these weeks I introduced the foxglove motif and created the large scale painted foxglove. I really like these and although the pink is a little brighter than I anticipated I felt by experimenting with colour, scale and the 3D element helped me develop my other designs further. Line drawing flowers onto white card worked well.
I wanted to explore the trailing element which i breifly touhed on earlier in the week. Using images out of my old books, i collaged them together so that they almost started grow and trail.
Tutorial Notes
I wanted to explore the trailing element which i breifly touhed on earlier in the week. Using images out of my old books, i collaged them together so that they almost started grow and trail.
Tutorial Notes
- Continue to produce monoprints.
- Complete large foxglove, 3D collage etc..
- Vertical Collaged peices, trailing and growing
- Give project a story to illustrate it.
Johanna Basford
Johanna's work is incredibly ornate yet subtle and she cleverly uses repeats to create impact. I love the organic feel to her work, her beautiful use of rich colours and blacks and simplicity of design. I feel that she is a designer with a style similar to mine, I often strugle with repeat imagery so looking at her work will hopefuly allow me to perfect my design collection into looking alot more professional and coherant. I like the fact that her wallpaper designs often consist of bespoke wall panels..I often find it hard to see a place for my work and struggle to see my designs as large repeats for wallpapers. Something like designing bespoke wall panels is something that interests me.
Week 6 ( 12th-16th November 2007)
Again this week was centred arounf constructing a strong design collection. After my tutorial on monday, the following issues were brought up...
- Consider different coloured grounds to work on. Subtle colours to link to research.
- Try more diverse compostions
- Disperse colour onto white photocopies to remove the harshness of the white. Use also to colour papers subtly to work on.
- Consider lazer cutting/etching to explore possibilites of scale and layout. These can be then worked ontop of, layered, printed over and drawn over to add more depth to work.
- Research into repeat patterning.
Week 5 (5th-9th November 2007)
This week mainly consited of me playing around with the prints that I had done the week before. I was cutting bits out, collaging and drawing ontop of these to push my ideas further.
I was also trying to source some nice papers to work on so that my work was looking more professional.
I was also trying to source some nice papers to work on so that my work was looking more professional.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
FORMAL INTERIM CRITIQUE FEEDBACK
- Beatiful and original style of drawing that needs to be pushed and explored to its full potential using screen printing processes.
- Consider methods discussed in crit on ways to develop your drawing- Just go for it! take creative risks when working in the print room.
- Well organised with 5 weeks left! Use time to develop ideas in the print room.
- Continue to record your aims, methodology and critical evaluation of your progress (PT304)
- Technical innovation starting to come together and should be your main focus. Consider printing imagery that could be repeated. Explore variation in scale and consider design for wallpaper.
- Continue to link your work to chosen research. Look at contemporary design practice to give you a greater understanding of how to utilise it within your work.
- Clear concept with strong drawing- just needs to come together now and work on larger pieces to explore composition and layout further. Stop working on small individual pieces
Week 4 ( 29th October- 4th November 2007)
During this week I decided to make a large screen to screen print with. Usually I don’t like screen printing but felt the need to produce one as it would speed my work up a lot and give me lots of grounds to work from. I was predominantly working with black ink on newsprint then using these to make compositions with collage and these worked well. As I wanted to make sure I pushed myself and made full use of the print room I decided to try some prints on some pages out of my books and these worked well also as I liked the combination of screen printed images over the text. I spent the majority of the week in the printroom, experimenting. I tried using different colours, I tried a dark Olive green and brown but felt using black looked alot better.
Thursday- 10:30-12:00am DIGITAL PRINTER BOOKED (COLOUR ATLAS)
Thursday- 10:30-12:00am DIGITAL PRINTER BOOKED (COLOUR ATLAS)
Week 3 (22nd-28th October 2007)
During this week i realised that my work was looking a little repeatative, I found that I was using the same imagery and my work was starting to bore me and my concentration leves and interest was lacking.Luckily I managed to source some old books during this time which were on botany and the Readers Digest guide to gardening which triggered a move in direction for the better. This then triggered the idea of my project been called “In the Victorian Secret Garden”… The books were definitely the best thing that came out of my research for this project and I was very lucky to have found them.
The books were quite old and full of beautiful imagery and text which really inspired me and I felt this suited what I wanted to achieve more. At this point I knew that i wanted to focus more on victorian illustrations and imagery but re-creating them in a more contemporary manner. Screen Printing/ Etching considered!
The books were quite old and full of beautiful imagery and text which really inspired me and I felt this suited what I wanted to achieve more. At this point I knew that i wanted to focus more on victorian illustrations and imagery but re-creating them in a more contemporary manner. Screen Printing/ Etching considered!
Week 2 (15th-21st October 2007)
This week was predominantly taken up by researching artists for inspiration and carrying on with drawing and painting. Recognising that cream paper and black pen worked well, i continued working in this manner. I scanned in some images and then printed them off onto cream paper, altering scale and playing with repeats. With this imagery I produced a series of good, strong initial drawings that worked well together. These drawings were A4 or smaller so i decided to make some books out of these and have them as early sketchbook and design ideas.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Week 1 (8-14th October 2007)
During the summer holidays I tried to do as much research as possible for this project. Early ideas and concepts were for this to be a very graphic led project, using Photoshop in order to make strong, bold and repeated design ideas. Examples below. (Early Work)
Although I liked the above more graphic work, I was drawn back to drawing and more illustrational ways of working.During this first week it was crucial to gain a good image bank and references for drawing. I decidied to take some photographs of insects and flowers for me to draw from (simple black and white line drawings).
Intial drawings consisted of birds and flowers on cream paper, hand drawn with fine line pen and ink. Colour exploration...Reds, Blues, Greens and Yellows. A Victorian/aged colour pallete needs researching. At this point I was looking into Etching, Screen Printing and Digital Printing to develop my ideas.
Although I liked the above more graphic work, I was drawn back to drawing and more illustrational ways of working.During this first week it was crucial to gain a good image bank and references for drawing. I decidied to take some photographs of insects and flowers for me to draw from (simple black and white line drawings).
Intial drawings consisted of birds and flowers on cream paper, hand drawn with fine line pen and ink. Colour exploration...Reds, Blues, Greens and Yellows. A Victorian/aged colour pallete needs researching. At this point I was looking into Etching, Screen Printing and Digital Printing to develop my ideas.
PT301 Module Design Proposal
Working title " Natures Delights"
My concept for this project was the theme of nature and patterns/forms within it. Initial points of reference were seed pods, insects, wild flowers, birds and butterflies. Recognising that this was a common theme within surface pattern design I wanted to make sure that my work was innovative and creative. I wanted to take more of an antique/aged approach with this project as this is how i prefer to work. Inspiration came in the forms of looking into victorian wallpapers, old botany and entomology illustrations and old books.
Influences/References...
My concept for this project was the theme of nature and patterns/forms within it. Initial points of reference were seed pods, insects, wild flowers, birds and butterflies. Recognising that this was a common theme within surface pattern design I wanted to make sure that my work was innovative and creative. I wanted to take more of an antique/aged approach with this project as this is how i prefer to work. Inspiration came in the forms of looking into victorian wallpapers, old botany and entomology illustrations and old books.
Influences/References...
Carolina Melis
Timorous Beasties
Eduardo Recife
Hannah Cottrell
Joanna Basford
William Killburn
Rachel Kelly
Cataline Estrada
William Morris
I aim to produce a design collection consisiting of hand drawn illustrations, book ideas and possible wallpaper designs.
Timorous Beasties
Eduardo Recife
Hannah Cottrell
Joanna Basford
William Killburn
Rachel Kelly
Cataline Estrada
William Morris
I aim to produce a design collection consisiting of hand drawn illustrations, book ideas and possible wallpaper designs.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Useful Websites
www.graphic-exchange.com/archives/home_0706.html
www. designsponge.com
www.ohjoy.blogs.com
www.printpatternblogspot.com
www.brainsfairies.co.uk
http://interactivewallpaper.co.uk
http://drawn.ca
http://www.gvetchedintime.com
http://www.illustrationweb.com
www. designsponge.com
www.ohjoy.blogs.com
www.printpatternblogspot.com
www.brainsfairies.co.uk
http://interactivewallpaper.co.uk
http://drawn.ca
http://www.gvetchedintime.com
http://www.illustrationweb.com
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