Printing

So I have been in the print room all day trying to finalize some prints for a photoshoot I have on wednesday at uni. This is one of my prints,I have masked bits out to give a geometric look but I feel it looks unfinished,
so i'm going to print another layer on top.

Weaving

So I have finally started weaving which I im happy about. To begin with I decided to do plain weave as you can see in the image below. I feel it looks really good especially the vibrant yellow against the dark blue. The use of jersey yarn looks really quirky.

Studio

Here is a picture of my workspace at university. My work is inspired by African tribal art and make up looks I have created on my sister. I have been doing a lot of textural art work using feathers, paint, oil pastels, glass paint etc.

Winding my warp

Started winding my warp up which I am finding very fiddly as im using a silk yarn doubled up which is very fine. I i'm learning from my mistakes which is good and will help me in the future.

Common Purpose

I did a four day leadership course with Common Purpose. I really enjoyed meeting new people and interacting with a variety of speakers. I came away with many good skills that will help me in the future.

Knit & stitch show

Me and my class mates made a variety of textile goods to raise money for new designers. I think our stand looked really good and we made quite a lot of money as well as displaying our recent work in the back, which got a lot of good feed back on.

Space/florals

I decided to change my summer project from Indian fashion, to a space theme encropated with florals as that was more down my alley way.

Here in this image I re created some of the plants from the movie Avatar as this movie has a space feel to it.

I felt that it was successful using oil pastels to create texture and the differnt colour tones to give it a realistic feel.