Paris!!

A recent trip to paris with my family and bf has provided me with looooads of photos and some really great inspiration for our first project of final year, heres a few of my photos that might be used soon for drawing.

Hopefully soon ill get onto photoshop and have a play aswell.

Collage

So when thinking about this vacation project we have to do I started looking through blogs. I found ...http://okyolove.blogspot.com/search/label/Design%20Inspiration
I loooove this book that she found and the collages and so had a go at my own.

I really like this and if I have more time to mess around I think I could make it quite complex.

3 weeks at KeelerGordon....

So this weekend iv'e just come back from a 3 week placement at KeerlerGordon, there were definitely good parts and bad but I suppose I can say iv'e learnt some important things in the space of 3 weeks. KeelerGordon is a textiles for fashion company which I suppose isn't really what i want to do at the end of uni, but saying that they design and print in a very similar way to things that I would do.

iv'e also learnt that at the moment London isn't the place for me even tho I did have one lovely day in the park.

Drawing with thread

Over easter I happend to stumble across a really great exhibition in my local gallery!
The Shire hall Gallery in stafford had a exhibition showing about 6 contemporary textile artists work.

i found some really great new textile artist such as Debbie Smyth who installation using pins and thread was created directly onto the walls

Other artist such as Trevor Smith and Caroline Kirton also exhibited their work.

i was so happy to stumble across this exhibition it even made an appearance in my journal.

Abstract architecture

So obviously my idea and styles of drawing had to come from somewhere, I gained some really great artist research.

I really loved the research I gained for this project and it made me excited again about drawing.

Unit 3

So unit 3 we were set a live brief, this was a bedding project, to be honest my first reaction was disappointment as at the start of the year I have already done a bedding project. i decided to move this project as far away from flowers as I could and went for abstract architecture.

I used my initial photo from london to draw from

London

I know its been a while since I actually went to London but it needed documenting. The photo that i took for my project are really nice! some great buildings.

Going to be heading back to london in the middle of may to be doing a work placement at Keeler Gordon a whole 3 weeks to be back in London!