2.2.4. Significant Choices

                                                                                                                                                                          Helen Lawrence

Whilst working on my Live Brief this week I have begun to mould my way of thinking to the design aspects favoured by Helen Lawrence. I have specifically been looking at the irregular shape of the knit, the layering of fabrics, the unusual materials and harsh embroidery.

With this in mind I am going to incorporate aspects and features of her designs into my own ideas in order to fit in to her brand style. This means working in new ways and experimenting with more unusual materials, incorporating more expressive embroidery and piecing sections together to create unique design features. This week I need to use my sketchbook and research more to understand how I can mould the brands ideas in to my samples, the steps I have taken so far have not been so successful and I need to look back at my research to get a better understanding.  

For the main brief I have been focusing on a range of colours, editing and inverting my images to reveal a new, fresh and different sort of marks and colours to draw and paint. This week I have been developing more expressional mark making.
Using a scanner I have been pulling my images to stretch them creating different types of images to work with them. I find this is more suggestive towards knit techniques. By working more on the style of mark making rather than the quantity of colour, pulling out what stands out most within the image and working with the quality of mark that is made.
I have found this approach much more effective and less cluttered. However the approach is not as simplified as I would like it to be. Due to the approach being more complex than imagined it was more difficult to take my ideas to sampling as a lot more work was to be done and the narrowing down of my ideas will have to be done requiring more selectiveness on my part with my work.