EXPERIMENT 1
Here I have started to create a surface pattern, with inspiration from Marianne Mahler. I have chosen colours similar to hers, and used a method called poly printing to create my piece. For the background I mixed a dark blue and painted it onto plain card. Scanned and adjusted the hues and saturations in Photoshop. I created 4 different stencils, these being:
- A Corgi
- A Mini Bus
- A RAF Plane
- An outline of Scotland
My pattern is going to be a combination of a relationship, in this case Prince William and Kate Middleton.
The problem with this first pattern, is that the background is tiled. So I am going to do the pattern again and put the background in first and then layer the pattern on top.
Here you can see that I have removed the background from the middle image, which has taken away the tile effect. So I inputted the background in separately an then put my pattern over the top.
This is the completed pattern inspired by Marianne Mahler, the image above. And the pattern has combined Prince William + Kate Middleton's Wedding.
EXPERIMENT 2
Thumbnails of drawings to be used:
After drawing some images up, I decided to use a piece of ripped paper to use as my background. I changed the hue to make it green. I then created my pattern on Photoshop by re-arranging different images and piecing them together. I then used the pattern tool so I could tile my pattern over the green paper. Out of all my experiments this is the one I like the least, as I think that I rushed it and I didn't put as much thought into it as I could of done.
EXPERIMENT 3
Plan for 3rd experiment:
For this copy, I originally decided to use images of Beyonce and Jay-Z to make the pattern. This proved quite difficult so I decided to find separate images of them and ink them up. I chose a variety of close up photos of them and used them at the beginning. I struggled using these images, so I decided to find images of them together and ink those up instead. I found two different images and inked them up. After I had inked them I found that they looked better if I split them in two and mixed the photos up. I then inked the name 'Blue Ivy,' which is the name of their daughter to make the text for the pattern. I also inked up the leaves and plants to create the remainder of the pattern. I chose to keep the background of the pattern pink, just like the original. I then used define pattern to create my pattern, and used the pattern stamp tool to print my pattern.
This is the final pattern for this experiment:
EXPERIMENT 4
With this experiment I decided that I wanted to try and use different styles of drawing and creating the patterns.
For this experiment, I decided to base it around the combination of drugs and alcohol. Even though when I finally created the pattern it was based on drugs. I inked these drawings up and scanned them into Photoshop.
When the leaves were put into Photoshop. I removed the background from them, and copied them into a tiled pattern.
After tiling the pattern onto A3 paper, I decided to input text over the image. I also created a text free image so I could compare the two of them. In the end I've decided that I prefer the one without any text.
On this second drug pattern, I decided to change the colour of the leaves to a block green. When I put the pattern onto A3, I decided to change my brush so that it looked like it had more of a spray painted effect. I then inputted the same text as the previous image, and changed the effect to multiply. By doing this you are able to see the leaves on the text, which blends it in well. I prefer the text in this image, as without the block of green leaves wouldn't be very interesting.
EXPERIMENT 5
Here I used a a technique called Cyanotype, to create the base for my pattern. I painted the solution onto paper, let it dry and then placed my objects on top and left them in a UV unit for 20 minutes. After this time, I ran the paper under water for 5-10 minutes to make the paper blue. These were then scanned into Photoshop, where I would then create them into my pattern.
I then inputted different pieces of the shapes onto Photoshop, duplicated them and then changed them into multiply and difference.
I then used the blue outline from the cyanotypes, to create a stencil effect for my pattern. I also used difference on this and I also changed the hue slightly.
When I was happy with the original piece for my pattern, I copied it and used the pattern stamp tool.
In a new A3 document, I used the pattern tool to tile the pattern. I also removed the brown background to make it white. I then copied this again and changed the hue to blue and also tried out different effects to get the colour I wanted.
After moving the pattern around and changing the size, I finally came to a piece that I was happy with. It was not too overpowering as it originally was, but instead it was quite neutral.
