Week Six. 26th March.

I was keen to continue with experimenting how I could use my fabrics, and as the print room was closed this week, it was a good time to work on them. After doing testers on smaller pieces of fabric I decided to iron pleats into a large sample and begin smocking it. The pleats were not all even, and whilst this is a sample and not of utmost important, I would not like this to be the case again, so after the easter break I will look into steam pleating using structered stencils to create even, perfect pleats.

I scanned the fabric in to create some repeat patterns.







Some of the small sections created really nice imagery:





Which are somewhat reminiscant of Geogia O'keefe's work:





Even though I had printed some digital pieces that did not entirely work, I was still keen to pursue digital repeat work, Which I think could very well have a place within this work: