Developing my ideas towards a combined print outcome

To develop my ideas further I am going to move into the print room and work with different processes on paper as I am currently still looking into wallpaper or gift wrap designs. To this point I have been developing my visual research and taking elements into photo-shop, digitally creating patterns. I am looking to move my work into hand produced techniques to explore possibilities through screen printing.

I want to create a body of elegant samples. Flocking and foiling give a more bespoke touch to designs that would attract a higher priced market. I feel that to this point my work has not incorporated enough exciting elements to create professional samples. Not only will this process create a relief pattern but it can also create a visual 3- Dimensional effect. I perhaps feel slightly restricted on photoshop to making my patterns work to the market I would like to approach. Screen printing will enable me to include qualities to enhance my work.

Visualising my designs

It was important for me to see how my designs to this point would work in visualisations. I took some of my digital patterns and played around with imposing them into interior spaces. This gives my work more clarification in terms of fitting into industry. This is one of my more successful visualisations. Itook my lino prints are merged them together to create this digital pattern. I wanted to have development prints that showed the physical quality but at this point, photoshop is a quick and efficient way to generate and express my ideas. 

Fired Earth

As a stem from my original concept is decorative tiles, I looked at ceramic companies for inspiration to inform my imagery for lino printing. Fired earth is a company that has beautiful mosaic tiles for interiors. I took inspiration from this particular pattern to create the linear drawing which I will then translate into print. 

Rather than having one thickness of line through out, I gave the design more variation in thickness and shape.

Lino Printing

I have made a few carved lino stamps that I am going to work with on a larger scaled surface. As I am considering wall paper, I have purchased a roll of plain wallpaper to work straight on to. This allows me to work within realistic dimensions and visualize how my work would look on a wall. I tried to experiment with my colour ways informed by my photographs from Kelvingrove museum. In my development prints I tested composition and layering.

Designing from my Drawings

To put my drawings into some form of context, I started playing around with how they would travel across a larger surface, first of all by hand. For a quick production of ideas I photocopied some of my drawings and played around with repetition and composition. 

I then took the same motif into photoshop and created a pattern by mirroring and reflecting within a 52cm by 52cm work space set for interiors. The linear qualities worked best by doing this processes as there was a natural link between each drawing.