Print Workshop-
For me, this was my favourite workshop yet, i learnt how to create a repeat pattern on photoshop, how to analyse a pattern and find the original block thats repeated, how to use the cloning and warping tools on photoshop and manipulating, layering images and hiding traplines within a pattern. To link it with my concept of addiction I used a section of my drape, which portrayed being in a knot a mess, creating tension with the fabric. I cloned parts of the picture, warped parts, copy and pasted parts, changed the brightness, contrast and exposure of certain parts of the image. I wanted to create a pattern that was connected in all areas. I also created a busy, colourful pattern using research and responses in my sketchbook regarding health and how to save your health. This pattern has a message of looking after your health and implies drugs ruin your body, by taking drugs you are destroying your health.
Towards the end of this workshop I printed my prints on satin, using a heat roller to print the design on the fabric, I was pleased with the results and then explored with the prints on a mannequin, seeing if the prints when together. if I did this workshop again I would of used the same colour scheme and texture intensity into each print to create more of a family. Although they weren’t a family, I thought the prints when well together due to the contrast, and I think as opposites they bounce of one another.
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