Sketchbook Work

Putting aside my practical work I was also working through my sketchbook. The first white page is always scary so I have left it blank and turned onto the next starting with looking at the swimwear pieces from Platt hall and picking out parts that I like such as the colours. Within the colours I'm looking at the way they are arranged on the items, the overlay of block colours and shapes and how the colours compliment each other.

Here I was focusing on not the shapes within the design but the way the colours overlap and blend. I feel this was a good starting point to get me thinking about how to develop my own work and colour ways. In the sketchbook analysis I was worried about people looking through my work as I'm not confident on speaking out and my sketchbook is where I just put all my ideas down and starting points so I wouldn't say its my best work overall.

Through my sketchbook I have mostly looked at pattern, and the images I got from Platt Hall of the Swimwear I was more interested in the patterns within the design and the detail rather then the item as a whole.

Here I was looking at the articles from the 1950's, this is where the hour glass figure really took shape, I love the way it shows off the womanly curves and the silhouette of it. A comment which was made in the sketchbook exhibition was that it was clear why I chose certain images and the way I translated them into my own drawings and adding my own drawings into the silhouette shapes which was a relief in a way as people can see where I was coming from.

Another part of the swimwear I was looking at was the pattern and texture. In the 1930's the swimwear was made from knitted fabric which isn't practical as when wet the fibres will absorb the water making the swimwear bigger which could end up in an embarrassing situation.
Linking my workshops to the rest of my work, I have been making felt also another material that wouldn't be suitable for swimwear as it shrinks when wet but that was a connection I made as I'm not thinking of the designs to be worn but to be more of a 'look at' piece, thinking about this in my workshops I started to think about how I could mould the felt to fit around the body.

Using an Image to pick out the colours

Simple flower patterns