Day at the beach

During my summer holidays I took a trip to the beach. I wanted to capture the natural environment in a variety of ways, I have looked at natural colour- flowers, I have looked at landscapes so wanted to explore the beach and sea life to some extent. 

 

 

 

Printing

I wanted to experiment with hand printing creating unique and abstract designs. Here are a few examples sticking to my original colour pallet of bright, natural colours..

Watercolor paint- 

Experimenting with different media...

From my initial drawings I started to develop them using oil pastels to create a more textured look taking the colours used from my original photographs.

Inital experimenting...

As I have been influenced over the summer by natural colours and textures I started to play around with inks creating drawings which were done freely by letting the ink move around the page to create this sense of blasts of colour and explosions of colour. I have also thought about pattern and shape within my original photographs and started thinking about repetition within these. Although I am a knitter I want to start to experiment with print, hand print and perhaps natural dyeing.

Nature and Fashion

Alexander McQueen Spring 2007

John Galliano

 

Jean-Paul Gaultier

Garde of Delights by Steven Meisel | Trendnistan

Bringing the outdoors indoors

The Natural World

Sometimes it is the little things in life that hold so much inspiration and influence to creative thinking. I have always been interested in exploring the natural environment as I find it interesting and exciting, taking in all of it's textures and colours can be overwhelming at times and I love exploring different ways of expressing it.

My work is mainly driven by the natural environment as there are so many ways you can go with it...



The beauty of colour-

 

The beauty of the landscape-