Merry Mess Maker

Ever since I began studying textile design I discovered a new found , legitimate reason for being messy!

I'd like to justify all the mess I create as a side effect of my textile education and for a while my family bought the excuse but (not surprisingly)the effect has worn off over the years...SIGH! 

BUT!despite messiness being my default personality disorder, there is some truth to the creative arts contributing to messy surfaces,spaces and situations.

This post is exactly about that, I hope to put the pretty into my 'mess' via a series of photos that I've been taking of my work in progress over the past few weeks...

Is it just me!?

Printed design research...often lies in a pile until I can stick it into my design journal...

Play with clay! I'm so excited about this project. More details in the next few posts.STAY TUNED! 

Colour mixing...I love a coloured mess!

What creative mess are you surrounded by today ? :)

x

T

P.S : All images are very precious to me and hence are protected by copyright.Please let me know if you want to share them, pin them , tweet them or any other lovely thing you'd like to do with them. Thanks!

The in-between...

Hello everyone! And special hello if you're here for the first time :)



As promised , I'm BACK and this time I want to share with you a little of what happens in the time between receiving a project and meeting a major deadline.
Fun part is... I've condensed this process into a set of lovely instagram shots but if I were to actually  talk to about it,well lets just say it wouldn't be quite so pretty!
Aaand since this blog is all about the sharing...I AM going to talk about it...(haha!) just a little...

This particular project is the one I've labelled 'MAJOR PROJECT' you might remember it from previous posts(see here!)
Its all about capturing the whole instagram culture and aesthetic and translating them into textile designs and so on...

So,after the research + report phase I dedicated a fair bit of my waking hours drawing/painting in an attempt to interpret my inspiration into my own design style...

Motif and pattern ideas inspired by Ancient architecture details. 
Painted in black ink

Textile Geek! This phase is where it gets quite technical and at times like this a 'little' knowledge can go a long way! ;)
In a nut shell, print prep involves putting my design work onto screen printing frames, mixing my colours in hand painting solutions and print pastes, sourcing fabrics to print onto and last but never the least, having some sort of a plan of what I want to do!

Once I've got all my elements set up then the long hours and never ending experimenting begins. The first deadline for the project was a collection of 20 different HAND PRINTED fabric swatches. The key thing was to EXPLORE a lot of different techniques and processes to ensure a creative and varied range of outcomes!

Here's some 'cool' shots of my fabric details...

And this is what it is all about...a very very small snipped of my printing process and final swatches.

What was once a thought in my mind , a designers vision drawn from a single source of inspiration...has come to life thanks to the wonders of textile design and is now tangible and accessible to anyone who cares to stop, look, touch and feel.

This is what I do...
and I try my best to do it well...

x
T

Coming soon...

The days of my life ( in the past few weeks anyway...) I have spent beavering away in the print room at uni and days and nights morphed into one as I raced to yesterdays deadline.

Scoreboard reads :

Tanya - 1

Deadline pressure - 0

Yay!

I'm still figuring out a way to best explain the pain,process,passion and pleasure that this project has brought so far, so please stay tuned until I can properly photograph and hopefully describe it all  in a coherent manner :)

In the meantime...here's a 'gridshot' of some instagram shots I took very quickly of some of my outcomes...

Instanostalgia : sampler grid


I've missed chatting into the blog-o-sphere and you all who care to read :)

So... Merci!Gracias!Danke! for sticking around and to a certain some of you A BIG THANK YOU for constantly ASKING about when I'm blogging next!Keeps me motivated to do so...

Be back soon,

T