Sunday, 23 February 2014

'Chalet' and 'Lucent Voiles' Digital Output Print Collection Progression








It is quite difficult to document your progression when creating digital prints, as opposed to the stages you reach when working in the print room.  Its something you don't continually print out, each decision so screen shoting my laptop, when decision making and visualising my prints together has been a process of elimination and progression for compiling both collections.

I have produced 21, 15cm square fabric tests from the digital printers in order to fabric test and see how my prints sit to the fabrics. Using three fabric choices,  Silk Habitai, Crepe de Chine and Cotton Voile it has been key to my final collection looking exactly how I envisaged. Regarding the 'Chalet' collection the print colours and weight of the material sits perfectly on the Crepe de Chine, I feel it shows the prints off to the best they can be. There were a couple of prints that the colouring has been slightly darker then expected, so I have minimally increased the exposure on the final prints to adapt to the printing outcomes. The Cotton Voile was only sampled to see how my collection 'Lucent Voiles' would sit to this fabric, ideally for the Voile collection I would of outsourced a more translucent voile, similar to the Voiles from Mark Alexanders collection 'Haven 1', this is something I am looking into producing, outsourcing and perfecting for Unit X. However the Cotton Voile did work, but I don't feel it reflected the delicacy I wanted the final designs to breath. For final presentation of the Lucent Voile collection I have chosen to print half the collection on the Cotton Voile but half using Silk Georgette to instigate a plunge of subtlety to the group, and allow the possibility of layering the designs with different weights of fabric. 

I am in the process of deciding how to present my final design ideas. Regarding the nature of the context, several prints are larger then A3, from a cost perspective I am printing a section of each design  to scale on fabric, A3 size. Choosing carefully the best variation of imagery and colour within the print. There will be a full version of the print on A3 paper so the viewer can gage the full design, on a smaller scale. 

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