Update

The past two weeks I have been painting pieces of work that can easily be scanned onto the computer and start to create a repeated pattern design. I have also scanned onto the computer all my other artwork painted pieces ready to start playing and designing different patterns with on Photoshop. Within the next week I will of also hopefully have my finished designs for my business cards and press pack. This week I have also started writing my artist statement for my final show exhibition.  

Inspiring Fabrics

I recently visited the textile fabric shop Abakan, to get inspired and look at their fabrics that can help with my designs. I looked at fabrics with similar patterns to the ones that I would like to create for my designs and backgrounds to my motifs. I particularly like the patchwork fabrics and the different spotted and scattered designs.

Painted Studies

Here are two images of the paintings I have created from my research on tin toys . With this collection I have been trying to stick to a particular colour palette of blues, reds, yellows and browns and I really think these colours work well together for my theme.

Research on Tin Toys

To help with my research on tin toys I visited some local vintage shops in Manchester to see if they had any interesting old toys I could take photos of and draw from. I found that one shop had toys like robots and cars from the 80’s and 90’s. I have also been using the search website called Pinterest to gather images that can help me with my paintings and designs. I found that Pinterest has a very good wide range of images and this website helped me a lot when finding images ogf tin toys.