Self initiated, Development

For the self initiated project, I have been struggling to translate my painting into knit. Carrying through with the concept of chaos. I feel that I need to make my paintings even more abstract, Focusing on layering of textures and marks. It was suggested during tutorial that using heat transfer or other means of dying to get the distorted and blend of colour. This can be the base layer of colour but can use plating and drop stitch to create shapes and distort the knit. On the top of this I can work into with foiling beading and some way of layer dark bold lines.

Photoshop edit of layering images

Branding Project, Samples

Layering of knits and foil

During this week I have been experimenting with using embroidery and foil to layer up more shapes and marks. I find that the foil is working well as it allows me to layer colours very flat that I would not be able to achieve by knit. I have also been experimenting with embroidery to add stripes were I would not be able to. During my tutorial this week it was very usefully pointed out not to use embroidery when I can get the effect with the dubied machine. 

Close up of Foil

Showing bellow an illustration of how my knit would look, taking into consideration Marni's collection.  ''Just as we've come to expect and love from the brand, you never quite know where one garment begins and the other ends''Jessica Bumpus 2015. So again layering all the knits as different items.

Knit sample in fashion illustration

Branding Project, Development

During this unit I have been layering textures using tracing paper, I have developed this below using photoshop which I feel has been working well, I will knit eat section separately that are seen overlapping. 

Refined colour pallet

Also my colour pallet has changed from being 'lego' colours to a darker colour pallet suitable for Autumn/ Winter. This change is because the photos I was looking at were mostly dark blues browns and greys, so made sense to take the colour differently from these images.

Branding Project, Developed

Original photos

I have been looking into my photos and how I can layer up the texture. I have started layering rubbing's of textures using tracing paper and found that this is working well, so then went on photoshop and started layering up my photos on here, lowering the opacity so that the textures overlap and make more patterns, and also changing the colour of my photos in accordance with my colour pallet. 

Photos layered and edited

 I think that I may be in a position to knit now as I have defined my colour pallet and have multiple images to work from. I feel that when I start knitting I will start to realise and find new techniques and qualities to put into my knit samples.

I think that actually knitting different sections of knit, and linking them together at the top will be the best way to present my knits, this will be best as Marni's collection is all about layering clothes not being able to see when the garment begins and ends.

Photos layered and edited

Self Initiated, Developed

With the paintings I have produced I really like all the colours and dark marks, I find that I need to exaggerate the marks so that I can translate them into knit techniques. And also refine my colour pallet.

I want my knits to have a lot of layers as within my paintings, layering of marks is very clear. Also I think that building up techniques will portray chaos, rather than my knits being flat. I feel that I need to do some drawings more simple to show some more basic shapes that I can make on the machine. Also establish what marks I want to layer on and how, this will require testing out different ways on adding texture and detail. I will try out embroidery, beading and foiling.

Refined colour pallet

This week I have tried to refine my colour pallet, so it has not got every shade of every colour. but has a selected choice from my imagery.

Self Initiated, Floral Chaos

Full image of oil pastel flowers 

Continuing this week with working in a more abstract way, carrying on with oil pastels, watercolours and acrylic. I am finding that my work is still looking very literally like flowers, though this is not a bad thing I do not want my knits to be prints of flowers. So have decided to look more into my paintings finding what it is within them that I like most, and found that is is the expressive mark and dark bold colours against the colours. So Zoomed into a few of my paintings and this I found shows more expression and more obvious marks, which I could translate into knit.

Zoomed in section of above image

Below again is another imaged of a zoomed in section of my work. I really like the bold marks and think this will be a key feature within my work and has also been something that appeared in my previous project. I think that all the marks layered up is very interesting so maybe this would be good when translating into knit, that there is a lot layers to my knits, building up different techniques.

Zoomed in section

Locating, Branding Project

Original Imagery 

For the Branding project I will be focusing of creating a collection of samples aimed suitable for Marni. Marni collections often have a lot of layers and multiple colours from the same pallet.  I will be starting of the unit looking at the order in the city. Looking at the patterns and grid like structures in everyday lives.

Acrylic painting of road 

I had started to paint directly from my imagery, but found this was not working well and wasn't enthusing me. I then started to collect rubbing's of textures from the photos I was taking like brick on walls and gravel. With these Rubbing I then started to layer then up on top of each other to resemble the photos I had taken but with texture.

Layering Texture of rubbing's

Locating, Self initiated

Original photos, Capturing chaos

For my self initiated project my concept will be Chaos, this concept will allow me to explore my starting point with a different approach. Making my work look very experimental and expressive.

The starting point for collecting visual research will be flowers. This I find will be best as it will allow for a lot of colour. I will take this unit into a very abstract style as this is what I most enjoy.

Start of unit paintings 

These are a few images of how I have started to interpret my imagery. Painting in a way that is not very literal. This allows me to focus more on colour and marks. The image above I feel is too toned down and is not capturing chaos very well. The image below I find is capturing chaos more, due to the bold linear qualities, and bright colours. I find that working in this more abstract way is what I enjoy most, so will push this more forward.

Start of unit oil pastel