Creating a Collection

To begin my collection I started taking motifs that I had made in my mark making and putting them together to create different layouts for different designs. I began drawing everything in pen and putting together different compositions. I soon realised that this illustrative style wasn’t how I usually work and wouldn’t really stick to my theme as the makes I had made where more abstract and messy.

I then moved on to collaging my motifs out of papers and bark that I had collect from my heat transfer and primary research walk. I found that the colours worked out better with my theme as they were more toned down and not flat. the papers and bark bought texture to my work which is what I wanted.

i quickly decided that this was the style that I wanted to work in. After scanning in my I played around on photoshop, changing the layout and size of motifs and eventually potential patterns were created.