Knowing I had to move my work further from my drawings, I began scanning in my paper weaves and collages. I edited them slightly on photoshop then spoke to Neil about sublimation printing so I could quickly lay down my loose colour palette onto fabric and start manipulating. After printing my imagery, textures and colour out, I started carefully cutting and tearing using my drawings to guide me. I explored different polyester fabrics, some worked better and others made the colour more muted. This was due to the cotton content in the fabric. I am looking for fairly bright, true colours so I need to be mindful of what fabrics I choose to use. As I was just testing out this process today, I was using off-cuts of fabric but I will continue this on Monday and will buy the polyester jersey fabric, which worked well today. I really like the quality of my samples today, it has made me think further how I could develop this. I could further use weave/ structured elements by weaving fabrics yarns or papers, as I think my drawings look like they could relate well to weave. This actually was my planned sampling method- but I don't mind if things don't go as planned. I like how this process has just worked for me, just from a few small ideas from Jill's workshop on Wednesday.
