Premiere Vision Development

During this week I have started to think more about developing my Premiere Vision work. To do this I have started to play around with my paintings in Photoshop incorporating my ideas of my own theme of the 60s.

I wanted to look at other designers who have used more realistic floral drawings with geometric shapes for inspiration. To do this I used Pinterest.

 

 

This piece is by BCBG Max Azria Spring 2014. I really liked this piece, I think the combination of shape and motifs work well. The contrast of bold colors against the black works really well and looks very effective. This is something which I want to incorporate within my designs. I also like the contrast of sheer and block fabric this is something I will keep in mind when picking a fabric for my design.



 

 

This is a dress from the 60s by James Galanos, once again I love the way black has been used for the background to create a contrast with the floral motif. Within this pattern I particularly enjoy the contrast within the scale of the pattern which is true to the 60s. This piece also shows a contrast in block and sheer fabrics. In this garment the sheerness of the top is soft and delicate in comparison to the bold and brighter colors upon the block material for the skirt. From this I am going to take the idea of scale the contrast of materials used and the effect this can create.

 I am also going to incorporate the successful aspects from my project, these being stickers and geometric shapes; I am going to use my favorite technique of collage to combine all these aspects together. Within Photoshop I used this inspiration to start to develop my floral paintings; I took inspiration from BCBG Max Azria within the layout of my patterns. I also experimented with using black to create a contrast against my floral paintings.

 

 



I think that these first initial Photoshop developments where successful; I feel the contrast in colors and shapes has worked really successfully. To develop these ideas further I am going to start to use collage to add further details and geometric shapes.

 

 

Here I have used stickers and cut out geometric shapes from my floral paintings to add more details and color to my designs. I feel these have been successful allowing me to add the successful aspects from my 60s project making my floral s more me.

Next I started to think about how the designs could work for the context of fashion. To do this I used my shift dress view finder, I found in my 60s project this allowed me to consider placement of design.

 

 

I think that to continue to develop these ideas I need to go back and produce some new paintings and continue to develop theme in this way I am hopeful that I will create some exciting outcomes.