As I have steered away from the physical making of a garment for this particular project, I am completely focusing on textiles. Hopefully throughout my sketchbook it will be clear through the illustrations of how the textiles will collaborate with a collection.
I want to focus my textiles on Bacon's life problems and the worldwide issues addressed in my visit to the Collection Museum; Homophobia, Fetishism and Sex. I want the textiles to remain feminine but also to show emotion like anger and chaos and confusion. The black designs in the textiles remind me of Picasso's Guernica, which represent's pain and struggle much like how Bacon's work is quite a clear reflection of his part experiences. The anger towards religion shown in his Pope series, and struggle with his sexuality seen in his phallic inspired paintings. This symbolic way of designing is an interesting angle to take, perhaps in my designs it can be used for example in the positioning of the patterns, or in the scale.
Photocopying some of my illustration and free drawn pieces, I have used the previous project's technique of illustrating through collage to create new designs as a development but also as ideas for final designs. Designing in this way is really useful as I can position the textile and scale it to size, something that would be replicable on real fabric if I were to make a garment. It also allows me to alter the colour and shape quickly, allowing more designs in the time. To design them I decided to negative one of the 'Bacon' collages, to create more blue hues in keeping with the colour palette. Selecting down 1 or 2 designs from each colour, I will pick out which aspects I think work best and design further from these, including more drawn illustration and fabric samples.
Photocopying some of my illustration and free drawn pieces, I have used the previous project's technique of illustrating through collage to create new designs as a development but also as ideas for final designs. Designing in this way is really useful as I can position the textile and scale it to size, something that would be replicable on real fabric if I were to make a garment. It also allows me to alter the colour and shape quickly, allowing more designs in the time. To design them I decided to negative one of the 'Bacon' collages, to create more blue hues in keeping with the colour palette. Selecting down 1 or 2 designs from each colour, I will pick out which aspects I think work best and design further from these, including more drawn illustration and fabric samples.
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