I love using watercolours! here are some florals from a previous project.....

Finals....

                                  Exploring Acid dyes ......

Hand painting with discharge, bleaching out the dye.

Using the acid dyes with a silk screen.

 Different samples of silk.

 Hand painted mark-making.

 Exploring with layering up the dye.

paper studies from mineral photographs....

EUTOPIA

Eutopia focuses on the elusive qualities within nature. Finding beautiful decorative textures and recreating them in fabric.

This is my inspiration board the project. Inspiration from Catwalk trends, Predicted colour schemes from Premier Vision '12. Metallic textures and silk fabrics make up the media for my research. Onto the silk I will apply by hand acid dyes and with the use of silk screens.