Development

I have been  developing samples in the print room and testing ideas to further my practice. I still feel like I am being very experimental and developing outcomes I'm not too fond of but still progressing and playing with ideas.

I dyed a heavy cotton/linen blend for this sample, discharged out using stencils then printed over using pigment, also with stencils. I don't think this sample has worked well because the pigment seems to sit on top of the other colour strange, still creating texture but not entirely what I want my finalised prints to look like.

               Adding pigment using stencils and foil.

Creating stencils for my prints still work well and feel the possibilities are endless. I wanted this print to be quite simple with the 'arches' flowing through the print. at this stage of the design process I like even the outside (un used) part of the print where the pigment has still been printed. This gave me an idea to do a rough print by masking off parts of the fabric and printing using the stencil and screen after using it for a placement print.

This inspired me to create a few minimal designs on Photoshop and showing my colour palette and context further.

                                       visualisation using my digital design.