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This pattern task I think it is very interesting. I try to used a lot of photoshop techniques, such as change color, combine images, liquefaction, zoom in, zoom out and so on. I also used “KaleidaCam” this app. It is very magical and interesting, because it could have a lot of change then could get various pattern with one same image.

According this task , I noticed photoshop is a very useful software, there are a lot of possibility with different function could do different thing, not just basic function to deal with image. It is also eminently suitable to design print patterns. Do different changes could get different effect, sometimes can get some surprise. And using photoshop to combine two images is also very interesting. The color could mix, the pattern could remix. The pattern could have more sense of layer. I think I need to learn more and try more about photoshop, there are a lot of potential need to be discovered.

According zoom in zoom out, I find a different way to observe life. Same thing with different angle to see will find some details before ignored. And cut drawing to small pieces then remix with other image is also a creativity way to design. The result is amazing give me surprise.

I need to try different material, media to design pattern. I think I am not experimental now. I need to do more adventure maybe will get more brilliant design and get some new inspirations.

My Reflection:

The project began with a stroll through the streets of London. When I looked at the streets of London with a mind to find colour, everything looked different. I would see things that I wouldn’t normally notice walking down the street. When I found a new way of looking at the world, I started to paint the most obvious things I saw, and because I was concentrating on colour, I hardly painted the outer lines of the objects. But I find this approach sometimes unsatisfactory, for example when the colour palette is so uniform that there are no other colours or shapes to break up the image, the painting becomes boring. When it comes to making images boring, I basically don’t use mixed media, which also limits the expression of the image and doesn’t facilitate the transition from image to fabric.

I enjoyed the second task, creating patterns. This task I did all by computer. I create patterns by digitally editing, reconstructing some paintings, deconstructing some paintings, or simply repeating the image several times.

One of the most interesting and quick ways to show a lot of ideas is to deconstruct the original painting. While reconstructing the image, I can also enlarge some of the more interesting parts, or enlarge and reduce some of the content and repeat it.

n both assignments, my images were very homogeneous, not bold and experimental in terms of composition or colour palette. There is still a lot of room for improvement in this area, but I definitely learnt a lot from these two assignments. In future research I will have a different way of looking at things and a particular style of recording inspiration.

• When I looked at talking colour I focused on the pinks, greens and even bright colours that shape and add more vibrance to what surrounds us I included fuscia, emerald, neon green and more.
• When first thinking about colours and how they change the way we view the world all around us, it differentiates our emotions and thoughts, as on miserable wintery day, where the colours feel faded because it’s cold and misty the colours feel almost impacted by how you feel that day, as everyone views everything differently through there eyes. The splashes of colour create more of a interesting pop and makes us focus on the drawings more.
• Even though some of my images are not focused you can tell when talking about colour I always think about what colours brighten up my day or even create this abnormality that people would not always wear intense colours on there way to work but as a student at art school, these wonderful and dynamic colours bring more of source of inspiration of what I would love to wear but maybe to afraid to.
• In these drawings I used both watercolours, acrylic paints,mirroring and even used my brush to use the page to make prints of the colours I focus on.
• I went into depth with a image I sourced from a flower market which was a celosia flower and almost shows a artificial yet and the real colours of the flower seen in one of my images, linking to talking colours and what we would find in a park or a market in London creating energetic and vivid palette as a source of information.
• The attention of these very modern and neon colours ,that were really brought in the 60s and that none really wore until this the 21st century , these colours are out-there and original ,the came about when the internet was formed and made, I think many people started feel more comfortable wearing these bright greens, pinks and more.
• Furthermore I will try to follow this similar approach to my other themes and why when looking at a colour palette it does not always have to be two colours.
• Overall when looking at this project Introduction to fashion embroidery it has expanded my knowledge of colour and how it can be expressed throughout my work.

Crab legs and (similar to) crab claw flower print. [Markers]

Reflection:

For this task we needed to observe colours in order to work on our pattern creations. After collecting several sketches through West and South London, I recalled the funky atmosphere of Brixton Road as well as being exposed to delicacies from many parts of the world at Borough Market. I wanted to work on doing a close-up of woven textiles and fabric, as shown by the shoelaces gif. Although, could be a great way to incorporate appliqué techniques,  I felt that heavily concentrating on making the pieces fit together doesn’t allow freedom of unique shapes in one pattern sheet. I achieved a similar fluffy effect with a moldable material, such as the pipe cleaner, to provide a more efficient way of recreating knit patterns that could look well with North American smocking or a patchwork series. I visited the Cornelia Parker’s exhibition at Tate Britain which made me consider distinctively simple shapes that could be replicated using mark-making and silhouettes. For instance, the band instrument cut-outs of “Perpetual Canon” (2004) could be applied to reverse appliqué or assembled in a different line-up for each row. I’ve noticed that a lot of these designs could be translated among different fabrics and materials, and I liked that this experience showed me inspiration can come from somewhere and to not isolate my research. For the next task, I could piece together a colour palette or fabric swatches and try attaching beads, or seek techniques in books in ways I could develop it further.