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| original pattern attempts |
After attempting to translate my images for the Cath Kidston brief into a pattern, I found my approach just wasn't working. It didn't fit into their original patterns (one of the specification was that the pattern mustn't look out of place among their collection).
I realised their images are made up of flat colour yet still had a watercolour feel to them. I therefore used my lightbox to recreate my original drawings in watercolour, sticking to a limited colour palette.
These were then put into photoshop and the colours flattened.
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| chosen components worked into a hexagonal arrangement |
It was amazing to see how much more my work suited the brief when altered in this way. Once I had the elements I wanted to use I chose to arrange them into a hexagon as I knew this shape would tesselate to create the pattern and it also kept me aways from a boring checked pattern. It was mentioned to me before that patterns are much more interesting when it's hard to tell where the pattern starts, I think the hexagon works much better for this than a square format.
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| finals for cottage pattern |
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| finals for farm pattern |
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| offset patterns |
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