ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR LIVE TRACE:

I scanned and printed off my two final designs for my printed panels, but I was not happy with the result and I did not think it would print correctly or well enough, so to create smoother, darker lines (as I hand drew the designs in pencil) I opened the scanned images onto Adobe Illustrator and performed live trace until I was happy with the below results.

PATCHWORK MOCK UP:

 

This is just me playing around getting the hang of sewing again, all this is by hand, however for the construction of my final pieces i will use a sewing maching to achieve a better quality outcome.

I was mainly just playing around with the materials that im going to use and the positioning of the panels.

MY PRINT DESIGNS:

These are my two final illustrations to use for screen printing as the centre panel of my patchwork quilts.

PRINTS OF INTEREST:

I want to feature prints which match with my medieval theme, featuring neutral colours of a dark palett.
 Some examples:

These and similar colours are close to what i have chosen for my mood board and for my final piece,
dark colours and some floral type images compliment the theme well.

MOOD BOARD:

Creating a mood board works for me, piecing together the images and pattern and materials that fit with my theme and inspire me to create images which compliment all of my chosen aspects relating to the brief I was given.

My mood board is mainly looking at materials and pattern, as I need to make sure that what I use mtaches and works alongside my printed images and run smoothly with my chosen theme. 'Prints of darkness' as a project title has inspired me to look for older looking materials, dark, cool, natural colours and interesting materials. I now know to look for these kind of textiles and images after my research into medieval tapestry art and combining this with what kinds of pattern and material are usually used in the creation of patchwork items.

PATCHWORK:

I decided on creating a bedroom related artifact as I have relevant experience with sewing and pattern cutting through independant study. I have chosen to create a series of small patchwork quilts, as I can encorporate my print designs on materials, and use corresponding materials with pattern and colour relating to the medieval theme that inspired my images.

I want to go about placing the right patters and colours along with the theme, and looking carefully at what will work best alongside my Printed images. I have also created a mood board to go inside my sketch book, indicating the general colour themes and examples of images i wish to use.

MEDIEVAL TAPESTRY:

To start my research, i looked at the imagery within medieval aged and styled tapestries.
A few examples:

These and other images I came across were all similar, usually featuring the same kind of colour scheme and similar characters/scenes that are often associated with the Medieval time period. However, alot of the imagery I found was not so stereotypical, but still using the same colour schemes and techniques.