REALISATION: Blog entry 28

I started using this pattern with out much explanation or thought, but the more I have used it, the more important it has become.

When I started working in a simplified style, I struggled with how to tackle the bits of the birds that were multiple colours. This idea worked for birds that were already simple, block colours, such as kingfishers, and herons, but with little brown speckled things, this was more difficult. Looking at the work of Hella Jongorious, and the Royal Crown Derby paperweights, I started using a pattern that  would replicate the shape and texture of the feathers, and their natural pattern.

I like having this reference to natural pattern (camouflage, and natural textures and patterns) within my pattern; I feel like it links the two different types of pattern. The original and natural, from which we have built on to create something of our own. I am using pattern to help conserve nature, and the origin of pattern.

Feathers pattern

I have just been doing this roughly up to now, but now I'm starting to make my final patterns, I thought I'd better start doing it properly. So I made this pattern to use within my final patterns. 

REALISATION: Blog entry 11

Tutorial:

- Pattern by Mel Buchanan

Pattern by Mel Buchanan - Pinterest

This pattern make a pattern out of pattern, goes with some of the things that I have already covered. can use images of patterns of sparrow/the city/ farmland, to create a larger pattern using the shapes of the birds...

- Camouflage! Do more research into this

Natural pattern, colours, domestic/urban setting

- Route of the words? Symbolism? sparrow research

- Focus in on the sparrow. There are two types of this common bird - one urban, one rural, work on just this

- Project no Longer fits all of the red list, just focusing on the conservation on the sparrow

- More on William Morris!

- Craft!

-Agrarian Society...

- Adapting to environment

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After my tutorial, I went back to Pinterest to look some things up and ended up adding more to my boards, looking for ideas..

Pinterest Board

Pinterest Board

Image found on Pinterest

I also found this on Pinterest - this is what I need to be aiming for with my work. It looks so much cleaner and better than mine, but very similar. I need to work more on this way of working, and refine it! Get it up to this standard. This has also helped me answer the question of eyes and legs! (something which I have had difficulty trying to make look right..

Also, breifly started looking into camouflage, found a couple of really cool boards..

Pinterest

I also remembered the hunting camouflage pattern (it's on some of the clothing we have at work) here's a couple of examples from google..

This has got me thinking if/how I could possible create something similar themes around the city/urban sparrows..? Possibly working into a pattern similar to the one at the top by Mel Buchanan...?