caren garfen and laura mcCafferty

 wowowooww. amazing websites. amazing work. i would love to be this good one day...

http://www.carengarfen.com/
http://lauramccafferty.com/

owls.

doodles.

 

drawings from my journal.

pig, humming bird and bear.

manipulated in photoshop.

as always.

78%

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

not bad for my first term.

florence broadhurst.

Florence Broadhurst is an Australian eccentric wallpaper designer known for her flamboyant and beautiful prints.

Some of her work is clean and stylised (like Ikeda) – others very illustrative and detailed (like The Cranes) but they all consequently link to create repetitive imagery for print. Her work has such geometric strength and her confidence oozes through each design I see. Her work is extremely eye catching and pleasing and I enjoy that her designs have so much variety. In some of her work, for example- Hessian, she gives the illusion of texture. She experimented with all types of media to create woven and stamped effects. I found these more inspiring than her classic prints as this is what we’re focusing on in our personal practise at the moment. Creating lines, pattern, shapes, and marks with mixed media to experiment in our print workshops. 

 Ikeda, Hessian and The Cranes

Florence Broadhurst dismissed the restrictions of mass production. She only worked traditionally and hand printed all her wallpapers and fabrics. She created hundreds of unique and luxurious patterns. She combined fuscia pinks, lemon yellows, lime greens, vivid oranges, turquoise, blacks, metallic silvers and gold – all perfectly matching her own flamboyant personality. Her colour palette is exciting and it’s intrigued me to work brighter and bolder.

Books

Florence Broadhurst – Her Secrets & Extraordinary Lives by Helen O’Neill (Hardie Grant Books)

Websites

http://www.signatureprints.com.au

end of term.

i think i have learnt the most in my life in the last three months.

now i just have to wait for my percentage! waa.

i don't think anybody realises (unless you're studying it) how technical and hard work textile design is. the number of processes i should know are overwhelming. but it's only been the first term of university, i've got plenty of time to master them... also, not really knowing about anything other than stitch and embroidery when i started probably didn't help. it's a good job i find it all interesting, so i have the right attitude towards learning new skills. next term we're weaving on the looms... which i have neveeer done before!

my head hurts now. and i can't wait to go home for christmas :)

buttons!

i did have to leave my button head people alone, but i could experiment with buttons on fabric!

fabric manipulation.

fabric manipulation with second hand fabric;

 i have collaged pieces togetger with stitch, applique, wadding and fringing:

 

 

hand stitch manipulation; experimenting with layers, pleats, colour gradients and changes in texture.

types of stitch.

a variety of stitches i used in this stitch project; french knots, straight stitch, back stitch, cross stitch, couching, pekinese and the chain loop stitch.

knit.

i have created a number of knit samples for this 'on the surface' project, focusing especially on the colour gradients of a landscape... brown>green>blue

i have also incorporated it into my stitch by knitting cables on the knitting machines then using couching stitch to secure it onto the fabric.

by adding yarns used in my hand knitting into my machine knit gives the samples textural interest by looping, weaving and knotting.

hand stitch samples.

i created these hand stitch sample from looking at the lines made in my photographs and translating them onto fabric. i achieved this by looking at the colour and form and varying the stitch type.

machine embroidery samples.

 i started to question; why are photos rectangle if the camera is round? so i often worked with circles to depict my rectangular photos and therefore, translating it into a circular image.