Today I am working in my sketchbook bringing together the information I gathered in the following books: fashion forecast, floral frocks and textiles now. I am researching different dress garment patterns and layouts and the past, present and future of dresses and floral designs. Today I have also got up to date with my log book as I think it's important to set myself targets and to note down any ideas or improvements and reasoning. I am hopefully going to start my screen design today as I am wanting my repeated screen print to be of 4-5 colours so I need to do at least 4-5 screens demonstrating different colours and a floral pattern for my dress. I am going to draw up some designs and ideas and then draw up my final design for my screen and then I need to transfer it into acitate. Above is some recent pages on my sketchbook I have been completeing with my recent research and development and my log book catch up work.
This is my second found imagery/drawn research sheet in which for this perticular drawing with oil pastels, chalk and felt tips I have combined a four leaves clover and a golden wattle but also bringing into it my continuous line drawings and continuous details creating lines and spreading the detail. For the background of this sheet I have combined different images from various magazines to create a blended but textured collage so I can work over the top of it and bring the details of the collarge into my drawings and paintings. The above image is my sketchbook in which I need to yet apply a decorative front and back cover for but I have quite a few filled pages inside it which I will show on one of my next blog posts.