STUDIO BAY

Photographs of my work displayed in my studio bay. A big difference from my display a couple of weeks ago! 

Within the next two months, I will aim to produce double/ triple the amount of work that I have now, of course being realistic at the same time but nothing wrong with setting goals. ;)

April and May is going to be a hectic month. 

more digital work

These are quick digital designs that I did before breaking up for the Easter holidays. It's amazing how much design you can do from a single scanned drawing. Some of these designs are photographic and were only layered on top of each other but it still resulted to designs that I would definitely consider to be a part of my final collection.

earthly/ native colours, beautiful markings, enhanced backgrounds, layering

FINAL DESIGNS

Finally started my final designs after many weeks of design development. From doing simple and basic batik on paper to doing batik samples on fabric, I have decided to do 2 metre final design on fabric. For my finals, i intend to do most fabric lengths with the technique batik. Instead of feeling anxious about the upcoming deadline and the never ending list of things to do, I feel very excited about producing many batik, digital and embroidered finals. Despite all the time I wasted procrastinating and sitting on my desk, I am finally starting to something exciting and represents my feeling about being away from home. 

Each of these took me at least 8 hours a day to finish. It has been EXHAUSTING but every time I look at the work I produced in a day, it motivates me more to keep going and produce even better work.

design development. batik on fabric

I focused on my fabric batik samples this week. I was very anxious about doing batik design on fabric because of the time and patience that it requires. However, seeing all these beautiful development samples that I produced this week, I am over the moon with the result especially with how the colours all worked together. The first sample did not turn out very good but the next few samples that I produced afterwards proved that fabric works as good as paper. This time, however, i think fabric is the best way to go for my final lengths. My developments also looked even better after being layered with organza fabrics and embellished with beads and threads.

machine and hand embroider, beading, layering of organza fabric

pigment PRINTS!

These are some samples from the printing I've done this week. I like to use pigments when printing because they are easier to mix. The only downside is that the colours are limited and pigment can sometimes become hard and thick. 

After the pigments have dried, I moved on to embroidering parts of my prints to give it detail and texture. Embroidery is not my biggest strengths but I enjoy doing it and I think I can easily get better if I continue to develop this technique.