Exploring colour for Fashion
This blog post is all about inspiration from sunsets, the sea, and outdoor scenes portraying beautiful colours. It is specific to a clients hobbies and interests including the sea, sports and an active life style.
It is all about visualisations of colour combinations, proportions and palettes. Colours are a great drive for me in many of my designs so this project was an inspiration and showed how important it is to remember that colour is pretty much everything!
Primary Photo, Pembrokeshire, Wales.
Sketch book development included lots of colour pallets and gouache painting
that I could then transfer in to a textile medium.
Final piece.
Final piece.
Floral motifs were not an initial design that I wanted to accomplish, however, it linked to the surf culture and designs and therefore I started to personalise and create embroidered form of flowers.
Layering became a key feature of many final samples as it helped give variations of similar colours, especially through the use of translucent organza fabrics.
Final pieces.
Final pieces.
Fashion illustrations was a good way in this project to portray how and where the design would be positioned on the body. It also helped visualize the collection together and enabled me to consider having a variation of all over patterned designs against a less bold fabrics or a placement pattern.
Final pieces.
Final pieces.
Image showing a colour wheel of Procion dyed natural fabrics.
Colour wheel of Procion dyed patterned fabrics.
After exploring colour in such depth, it has helped me in design methods through further projects.
