Monday, April 21, 2008

Experimenting with Fabric




I made the decision that I would finally begin to introduce some fabric pieces into my work to show range and diversity within my portfolio. I have always been a predominantly paper based person so fabric is something new to me and this was quite exciting. As I had already prepared 2 screens bursting with imagery I started to print onto some cream fabrics such as Canvas and Silks and i really liked them. To take these to another level i began to experiment with disperse papers to add flashes of colour, I thought it would be quite interesting to add some thin blue stripes to mimic the graph paper I had been using within my designs. I like the idea of creating my own stripes, pin stripes, checks and even spotted fabrics which I will then print over. Here are some images of my fabric pieces which I have used to collage with...

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