New Design

Today I drew the design for what I think will be the border, and maybe even the center of my dishes. We will scan my drawing into the computer and then work with it in adobe illustrator.

My inspiration for my newly designed pattern.

My design created.

I created it by making a doodle with parts of my inspiration incorporated, and then putting it on tracing paper and continually flipping it to create my pattern. 

Brooks went home sick, but I am sure we will scan it and start computer work on Monday!

Goals

Today Mrs. Brooks and I had our second mentor meeting. We decided that our goals for my project were:

-to produce an entire place setting collection

-create a work of art with my patterns within it

-create a few patterns on the computer

I am very excited, and working on my place setting collection today!

Paper Birds

Yesterday, me and Mrs. Brooks met up and looked through everything I had brought (which were doodles and inspiration for a new project). We couldn't scan in any of my doodles, so we began looking at my inspirational colors, and subjects.

I had loved the idea of origami birds in the design for a full place setting. Along with a pattern from a magazine I absolutely loved. The pattern was turkish and very detailed and ethnic.

Mrs Brooks gave me some ideas for what it could look like, and I went right to work. She told me to look up pictures on google images of "turkish tile", iznik tile", "alhambra designs" and "origami birds". I found pictures that I liked it all of the fields and started doodling how I wanted the birds to be presented in the pattern.

I decided on them being presented in a trio, with three different positions of origami.

Here is what I came up with:

Mrs. Brooks decided on doing a salad plate, a dinner plate, cup, saucer and napkin, all with my design on it. We thought about where we could put the ethnic pattern, whether it be in the center of the dish, on the bird, in a cloud around the bird, or on the border.

I am still working on where the pattern will go, and perfecting the trio.

There is a lot of work to be done.

The Start of a New Project

I have told a lot about what I have done, and not so much as to what I plan on doing. For my W.I.S.E project I plan on exploring textiles, through history, creating them with mediums and using the computer and just learning about them in general. I want to design patterns, and also create art with patterns within them.

My mentor for my project is Mrs. Brooks, this is because she is not only one of my favorite teachers but also because she majored in Textile and Surface Design at FIT, which is what I wish to do. She is the perfect match for my project and I plan on doing extraordinary things with her.

I talked to her not so long ago, and we have already decided to meet every Thursday 3rd period for our weekly meetings. But we also decided on working that period tomorrow to start working on some new patterns.

She has already seen my doodles, and we both feel some of them could do very well in a pattern. She has also shown me a table/cup design, where someone designed an entire place setting.

Tomorrow 3rd period we plan on going over what we think can work, and what we will do first. Whether it is creating a new design for a pattern, using one of my doodles for a pattern or even just beginning the inspiration process for the place setting design.

So, for tomorrow I will be bringing in:

doodles,

I liked the colors in this, however it might be too detailed.

I have already made this on the computer and
changed it so I thought maybe I could use that along with a
new pattern I might create.

I have already made this a pattern, but I thought
maybe I could create something completely different.

I thought of this as a border around a room in repeat.

I think this one has great potential.

and pictures that have colors and subject matter that inspire me,

I thought camels would be cool to repeat, and the colors and what is happening in this image is great.

I love the colors in this picture.

I love the natural patterns and detail in the owl. The colors are amazing,.

I love how the patterns are made here and the use of the medium.

I thought oragami birds might be a fun pattern on a place setting.

All of these are options, I have no idea what I will do. This is all inspiration and everything it up in the air. All I know is that I will be creating something new.