Worked into design

After making my tessellated design, I wanted to add to it to see what other shapes it creates when some of the lines are drawn together. I've found that it creates a good, solid shape for an outline. This drawing has given me more ideas on how to create my final screens. 

Tessellated Designs

Hand drawings and geometric line drawings have been repeated and tessellated to create these designs in the style of mandalas. I prefer the designs with circles in them and colour. The top design looses the line work when reduced to this size. For my screen I will need to make the lines thicker and less condensed. 

Mandalas

I'm creating my designs in the style of Mandalas. They are interesting patterns and are similar to the tiling in Morocco. The temples and walls are very detailed in their tiling. I want to tesselate my designs round to make my screens, allowing them to be repeated on fabric.

Painted work

With the geometric style of drawing, I want to create a limited colour palate to work with. The main colours that I want to use are the rich mustard, deep red and electric blue. I have collected these colours of dye from Morocco, therefore I can dye my own fabric and screen print on top. 

First Drawings

The lanterns in Morocco were what caught my eye the most, the shape, the colours and the light transparency. I started with free hand drawing with inks, but then moved onto more geometric shapes. From these images I can make more defined designs.

Morocco

After travelling around Morocco, it has influenced my work greatly and given me the basis for my art project. The vast amount of rich colours and pattern work there has been the primary source of my inspiration.