Thinking about the requirement to use my local environmental attributes to assist in the design motivation for the textile design, I wandered to the creek all of 30 metres away from my front door to see what I could find. I really had no pre-concieved idea of what I wanted to find, or really what part of nature I wanted to focus on, I thought I'd just let the natural setting guide me. I headed to the creek around 8.30am, which was such a great time of day for lighting. Due to reflection created by this low light I was able to see different environmental interpretations of the shapes of the leaves, trees and all the things lying around the creek bed.
What stood out for me the most during my little trip to the creek was the large creek lillies. Initially I thought that perhaps the micro fern moss had potential, but the reflection and the shadows of the lillies on the water surface was so interesting, with a painterly quality.
My next move to begin the designing process is to place these lillie leave images into PS and manipulate to extract the shapes for me to work from.
 |
| Lillie leave reflection on water |
 |
| Lillie leave shadow on water |
 |
| Top of the lillie leave |
 |
| Lillie leaves hanging over creek edge and reflection |
 |
| Lillie stems |
No comments:
Post a Comment