Using a Pattern, in an Art Project

When my AP Art teacher assigned a project for our portfolio I came up with an idea that involved my previous pattern I created just for fun.

The Second Pattern I ever created.

I used a part of my second pattern, in a project for my AP Art class.

Goes to show you that, parts of projects can be used over and over. And also, my textile design and art work came in handy !

Some artists actually have some giveaway to their art. They have things incorporated in their pieces of work that they use over and over. 

For example:

 René François Ghislain Magritte uses clouds in a lot of his paintings. 

"Decalcomanie" Magritte

"The Empire of Light II" Magritte

"False Mirror"

"The Castle of Pyrenees" Magritte

"Personal Values" Magritte

"The Victory" Magritte

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I may do the same thing as some of the greatest artists of all time with my design.

A Booked Hotel & A Plan for Inspiration

I blogged awhile back about how I had been interested in Fiber Philadelphia and the exhibits on textiles it was showing.

My Mom and I have decided to go and book a hotel to stay over and visit some exhibitions.

I am pretty excited and we are going in mid-March...yaay!!

A Surprisingly Easy Stripe&Plaid

The day that I created my plate designs, I was also taught to create a stripe and a plaid.

Mrs. Brooks taught me how to create the stripe with just long rectangles in a box, color them, and there it is.

Then she taught me how to layed more rectangles over the stripe and fade them to create a plaid.

I had no clue that it was as simple as it was. I am very happy I got to learn how to make it...woohoo!

An Idea Used Before

Over the summer, when I was commuting to the Fashion Institute of Technology for my Experimental Media class, I had a lot of free time waiting on the train. All I really used my 2 hours a day on the train doing was listening to music, and doodling.

This is one of the doodles I created in July of 2010, on the train:\

Over February Break, my family and I went to a fine arts museum in Springfield Massachusetts. At that museum I saw a piece that reminded me a lot of my doodle I made on the train. 

And here it is:


"Composition Distraite" Pierre Courtin 1921





What I wanted to portray with this blog entry was that if an artist in the 1920's can create an idea, and then almost a decade later another artist can create something very similar, then isn't there some kid of connection?

I think that all artists can come up with a lot of the same ideas, it is how the artist executes them that makes them different.





Experimenting with a Plate

After I finished my border, I got right to work.

I changed the colors of each piece involved :

Before

After

And then repeated it like I did to create an entire border.

After I created a smaller one that was similar but not completely the same, as a salad plate to go along with the dinner plate I created.

I then made a lot of different plates by changing a color or two, changing the size of something and tweaking at anything. That's when I created all of these:

I like the simple  design to this.

I hate the green border on this. Which is one
thing I will not be repeating in another plate design
I will create.

I loved the stripes. This is one of my favorites.

I like the bold pink in this, I do think it has too much
purple though.

Once I had enough of just the color changes and border tweaking, I decided to make a symbol of some sort. I  put this one part layered over each other.

By doing that, I created this.

And followed it up with this.

I have not decided what I will be using for my final project. But I have figured out somethings that do not work, and things that have.

I am very excited for what is to come, and will keep the work going!

A Full Border

Today I created the border of my plate design. I have already shown you what I drew out which is this:

Then I took a picture of it and uploaded it to Adobe Illustrator to Live Trace. So it would be easy to just fill with color. 

However the Live Trace didn't work, so I decided to go over my lines with the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator. I only went over one part of my design because it is just the same shape repeated.

After that I just copy and pasted my design into Adobe Photoshop and made it into my pattern and arranged the shapes into what I had in mind and got this. I then warped the shapes and created an arc, since I am making a circle.

I put the arcs arranged in a circle and got my plate border!

And once that was done I just made a smaller one, representing the salad and dinner plates.

Today was supposed to be a mentor meeting, but sadly Brooks is not here. If she is tomorrow I will definitely show this all to her, and I am sure she will comment and critique me on my work!

I am happy I was so productive!!! Woohoo

From Anything

I will post patterns that inspire me in the other two sections of Textile Designs, Conversational and Ethnic. However I just wanted to add that I not only get inspiration from patterns in this book, I get inspiation from anything.

Here is the 500 word inspiration essay I had to write for my Fashion Institute of Techology applicaton.

"The inspiration I have for my artwork originates from many different sources. These sources are all around me and include life’s everyday actions, certain items, and different images. Examples of these sources include museums, other people’s artwork, things that I watch, things that people say, seeing pictures and quotes, stories people tell to each other and even my own doodles.

When I visited the MoMA, the Louvre, the D’Orsay and also the MAD museum; there were specific pieces from each that inspired me. Such as Georges de La Tour in the Louvre, and Renoir in the D’Orsay; they were both collections that inspired me to continue my artwork because there were just so spectacular. Also, when I watch movies there are scenes that encourage me to recreate them or completely change them. Even when I am just walking around in any type of surrounding, there is always an accessory on someone’s outfit, a window display, an intense pattern and even tidbits of a strangers’ conversation. What people say is another thing that can always give me ideas, whether it is a story told to me, a character’s line on a television show and sometimes jokes. I remember one time a girl was having a conversation behind me about dragging her pair of jeans around by the belt hooked in them. It sparked an idea to create a picture of a little child dragging around their pants and pretending like it was their pet. Of course I also get inspired by pictures. Whether they are in magazines, books or posters, these encourage me to create a piece inspired by it. When looking through a magazine, there can be horrible advertisements that can also work as fabulous pieces of motivation for a piece of art. Certain quotes that I read can encourage me to create something because when I read there is always more than the book being contemplated in my head. A quote that always makes me think very hard is said by Lewis Carroll. He once said “Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.” , this quote has always made me envision what people think they are, who they want to be and who they genuinely are; which are all very vague and so it creates many different ideas. Another thing that has always got my brain working is just doodling. When I begin doodling I don’t expect it to actually create anything, but as I continue every doodle surprises me and becomes something unexpected. Doodle’s, help the process of thinking because anything can be created.

The love I have for artwork and by keeping an open mind, allows me to be inspired by almost everything, which is fantastic. I love thinking of new ideas constantly; the only downside is trying to remember them all. Being inspired is always a great occurrence for me, but can be bittersweet because of the inability for me to go off and do what I want at any moment."

I will post my inspiring textiles soon!

Working on my pattern for my place setting tomorrow!