Context For Locating

Cédric Charlier Resort 2014

During this unit I feel that I am starting to find were I belong within the fashion world. The more I look at my work with an open mind the more I realise that my knits and prints are very wearable. During this unit I have been looking and multiple Designers, to influence my work, whether this is to alter my colour pallet slightly so it looks more expensive and sophisticated. I feel that from this unit I have a better understanding.

Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Print Highlights Part 2 – Spring/Summer 2016

Final Week of Locating

 

Close up of original painting, Oil pastel

 

During this week, I have been dedicating my time to creating knit samples. I have continued with the idea of using prints of my drawings with my knits, so experimented with this but found that when actually sewn onto the knits, they don't look very good, they don't look like then should be there, so am going to just present the two together, both knits and prints, to show that that will be an item. 

 



 

Close up of knit sample

 

Here is an image of one of my knit samples, I have stuffed a pocket with yarns which are colours relevant to my colour pallet. This is to show the chaotic feel of my paintings, all the marks made with oil pastel, quite scribbly.

 



Close up of knit sample

Here is an image of the knit and print lay together. I feel that they do complement each other well, and feel that they would look good together as a garment, the contrast of flowing silk prints and more structured knit.

The knitting during this unit I feel has not gone majorly well. I think that my paintings have been very complicated and I liked them so wanted my knits to be similar but that is not possible, I needed to take a quality from them to translate into knit, but did struggle to find this quality. I feel that my knits have been quite simple for this brief, which is not good as my concept has been chaos, however I feel that the way I work is always quite neat and controlled and this is something that I can never get away from, so the way I have interpreted chaos is still controlled, and trapped in certain areas of my knit samples, like the way the pockets are chaos but the rest is quite plain.

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.

Self Initiated, Simplifying

Layering imagery and mark making

 

This week with my self initiated project I have been continuing to make my work more abstract, focusing more on layering textures and colour. To start more my paintings more abstract I have been cutting and sticking my paintings in different ways, so they are not recognisable. This I feel works well as it is then more about texture and colour than flowers. This I will continue with this week, but also need to simplify my imagery without loosing too much detail but enough to be able to translate into knit. 



Layering imagery and painting on top

The image below I find works well as it is busy enough that you can see it comes from my work but simplified so I can pull out techniques that may be relevant to use on the knit machines.

Layering imagery

Self Initiated, Development

stage 1 of painting

I decided to show some simple steps of a painting to understand how I would translate my paintings into knit. the image above is more simple, consisting of shades of red yellow, this I can knit using plating, hold or dropstitch to achieve the blend of colour, I could even dye my yarn so the colours do blend then use the techniques mentioned also. 

Stage 2 of painting

To achieve the next layer I can either foil, heat transfer, or using techniques on the machine, e wrap, plate, I can use multiple techniques to layer up texture to capture the chaos within my images. 

Stage 3 of painting

For the final stage of adding dark bold marks, This can be embroidery, foil, e wrap, or heat transfer, to add the dark details.

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