My Floral Design
Art G.c.s.e Need Help with ideas please!?
I am doing my art g.c.s.e and im running out of time.. i need some ideas for a repetitive wallpaper style project. It has to have the repitition of floral patterns please help its really hard to think of some amazing ideas! Thank's x
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- I think you should look at a Australian Ford vehicles interior pattern on a particular model specifically a BA XR6 utility car the pattern on the seat fabric (the one i saw) was black fabric with a repetitive very light coloured silver/gray print of what looked liked sugar cane leaves going from left to the right going up slightly one after the other....It looks pretty good cause i got the same sort of print (in flouro green) put on the (black) door trims on my car by my local motor trimmer....I think its awesome and so did my workmates when they saw my interior of my car, Hope this helps...
- the rainbow should do well
- If you are doing GCSE you will probably need artist/designers to support your work so here are a few ideas that could also give you inspiration for your own project. M C Escher - lots of all-over interlocking shapes and tessellations to marvel at and give you plenty of ideas. William Morris - lots of flowers and leaves, wallpapers and fabrics - Victorian period. Art Deco period - geometric patters and deigns - fabrics Silver Studio - Started by Arthur Silver - Art Nouveau Japanese fabrics - quite fashionable at the moment - kimonos etc then you could try more recent designers like Laura Ashley but there are lots of contemporary designers so suggest googling 'repeat fabric designers' or try the Designers Guild and look for floral patters. These are all quite different styles so hopefully you will like something there. Get pics of different examples for your project. Henri Matisse also did quite a lot of fabric designs and included some in his paintings. If you haven't done it yet, draw some flowers yourself and collect some photos (plenty on the net - look under gardening or something like that). Get tracing paper and trace shapes from these then layer the tracings to see what effects you can create. Save your experiments as evidence of the development of ideas and when you get something that works, retrace and if possible photocopy that so that you can try out different colourways (technical term that!) and this is more development of ideas to go in your project. If you have access to a reasonable program on computer you could scan in your drawings and then 'tile' them to give a repeat pattern and manipulate the colour etc. Try over laying images to get them to fit together. Save and print out different steps as exam people love that and gives you a better mark. You could make a slide show to demonstrate the development if you have time. hope this helps and good luck with your project
- Look up what shapes tessellate, if you haven't got them already, and pick one of them for your basic unit. Decide what style the floral motif is going to be in. Find some examples of designs in that style for your visual research. If you're a bit pushed for time the bold colourful ones from the 60s and 70s might be easiest.
