Motif Designs

It was difficult for me to select six final motif designs to put onto acetate, because I wanted to put everything that I have ever drawn onto screen. However, I have to be selective. Therefore, I thought of continuing to use Pigeon diagrams as my theme.

I linked my research sources by using The Secret Code by Priya Hemenway (2008) to adopt golden rules to apply to my drawings and as an overlapping idea. Also, for my pigeon drawings I have used Complete British Birds by Paul Sterry (2008). 

I have used artist research to help me understand positive and negative space, particularly Mark Hearld, who is  a printer artist. His works show exactly where the positive and negative space is. 

 

For example, in the picture above there is too much positive space, after seeing Mark Hearld’s work and adopting the way he see things, I have a fuller understanding of where my drawings need to have more ‘blocks’.

 

After using line drawings as a guideline, I filled in the spaces by ‘colouring’ and that’s where the colours would be transferred to the fabric.

This is the final arrangement for screen printing.