One of the most useful exercises we were encouraged to do on the degree course was to gather together whatever materials we used in doing our practical work and photograph them. Just putting everything together made you notice what it is you are drawn to. At the time I brought in all the fabrics I had amassed over the years thinking it would tell me nothing because they were so random. I ended up realising that I tend to go for a particular grey tone, so although all the fabrics were different colours and some quite bright, they matched because of the tone. It was interesting to see. (Can we ever really escape from ourselves…?)
Anyway I thought I’d try it for my current inspiration in the fabrics above. Just an excuse for a fab photo and a burst of colour! Thanks again Craig, also for putting me on to the ace camera that has enabled me to take half decent photos.
With such an array of pattern it is quite difficult to arrange them in any kind of order so I went with intuition rather than formal colour palette reasoning.
The fabric third from the top may be recognisable as the dress in the previous post, this gives a better idea of the colours, more bright greens and mustards than plums!
