Research development

Over the weekend I did more research on the Egon Schiele painting that was in my concept board. On Friday I looked through some books about Egon Schiele and his work. Most of the books mentioned Gustav Klimt because he mentored Schiele before he started to make his own art and there are many comparisons between klimt's work and schieles's early paintings. I chose some of my favourite images, onto copied them and made a concept board from them.

I used fabrics from scraps that I have at home and some of the samples that I collected on Wednesday to create another mood board.

 

I really like the pattern in klimt's painting of a bride so I decided to do some further development of this. I started by drawing it then I embroidered the pattern onto some calico.

Next I created some blocks out of cardboard and did some block prints of the pattern. I really like how these turned out because they turned a fine art piece into something more graphic. I continued to develop this by repeating this but using colours from my mood board. I also painted the pattern onto fabric, I found this quite difficult to do, probably because I was using acrylic paint so I think it would be better if I invested in some fabric paints if I decided this was a technique I decide that I want to continue doing.

I really enjoyed doing this and I think it was useful to me because I tried really hard to take an element to be inspired by and used this to develop several outcomes. I also really like this print that I created and I think it could be interesting to develop this in a digital way to see how it could potentially look on a garment. I'm going to continue doing this with the other images on my main concept board to further develop my research.