final weeks of locating

During this week I have found it difficult to translate my paintings of floral chaos into knit, I do not want to loose the quality of my painting and the chaotic style. I have started to knit this week and it has not gone as well as hoped to start with , I don't want my knits to be flat and this is what it has gone like this week. I have gathered my thoughts and ideas and find that I don't want to change my paintings and simplify them so that they are easier to translate into knit, I want my knits to represent what my paintings are like but not be replicas  of them but in knit. I think that with this in mind I will try and combine print techniques with my knit samples and physically join them together. Like designer Stella Jean S/S16 who has contrasting patterns laying directly next to each other, I will combine knit samples of my paintings showing texture and layering of techniques, contrasted with prints of fabric of my actual paintings, so I do not loose to paintings and they are still a major part in my work.

Photoshop samples to show how samples may look

Here is a collection of rough Photoshop images to show how home knit may look alongside my heat transferred prints. Showing the more literal paintings against the abstract marks made on the machine.