Back to the extremely enjoyable daily college grind....

At uni we are deep in design development and its great fun, although I am a bit all over the place with so many ideas flying about and so many good resources to draw on. The intention is to design 6 individual collections of scarves each collection having at least 4 designs and several different colorways - this of course could change to 4 collections with 6 cohesive designs - but....that's the word that's causing me a slight discomfort at the moment they is absolutely nothing reassembling cohesion in my current work at the moment.

colourways for men on the moon

Some of the imagery is beginning to translate as a collective design but I need to rein in the colour palate or at least make it consistent to each collection. The collections themselves are at the moment very individual, linked only because I have designed them!! It is early days yet and I will keep experimenting and laying images and producing some lay outs and hope that in the long term the collections will emerge and identify somehow as'cohesive'.

loving this but I cant use it as the tiger is another artists but I just wanted to play... its a homage... the chicken in a basket will show up somewhere,,,

I have a vast array of resources I collated for my minor project - drawn, painted, stitched and photographs and my interpretations of them are limitless. I hope to be able to convey my ideas about juxtaposition and the invitation for people to view things slightly differently. Its harder than I imagined it would be to make the move to put odd things together and I'm not sure if this is because it breaks the norm or whether in fact (my preferrred option) I just do that anyway, so going the extra extra diverse way is quite hard for me personally!!

I don't think the toads in the jars work but I love the giraffes

I have never liked matching things and work on the principal that mix as much as you can and eventually it will unmatch perfectly. This applies to my design work and one of the reasons I find repeat pattern work quite hard to live with - hence my preference for placement designs, be they singly multiple, mirrored or random. My concept centered around juxtaposition allows me to be as odd as I need to be and experimental with the content I can sit side by side.

I am also trying to appeal to a wider audience, while not wanting to be too commercial I recognise I need to consider potential markets so I am experimenting with quieter designs.... not sure they will make the final cut!!

this is a combination of a collage I did of a church roof and a drawing of a marigold from my garden.

The combinations of my resources are endless, I love just playing about with placements and colour and I have decided to allow myself a free for all until the end of the week when I need to get disciplined and start reining the design work in so I can concentrate on quality rather then quantity.

Scotland part 2

The second half of the week continued in much the same vein. We had one rainy afternoon which was actually quite nice to be holed up in the house with the rain lashing the windows. It probably wasn't quite so nice for the two visitors that came on their bikes but they're tough cookies - and its only water- but I did feel sorry for them having to cycle six miles back down the track in the wind and rain, but given Scotland, it wasn't as bad as it could be. The big quest for the 2nd half of the week was to find some deer antiers! The chap that owned the house dropped in to visit - he was a very friendly fella and was chatting about how this was the time of year when all the Stags lost their antlers (he collected them and sold them) so after that we were on the serious lookout. It's always been Fred's mission to find some dropped antlers.... The Monro baggers continued with the mission to bag the remaining three Monros... there is discussion as whet...

Vigo

We left the ship to explore Vigo. Its a much larger place then we expected... although tbh I hadn't given ut a lot of thought. Its a real mish mash of old and new and having got a map from tourist info we decided to follow the walking trail to the Monte Castro... the highest point of the town. Most of the town was pretty much as everywhere else... lots of traffic... lots of people... one or two interesting buildings and a lot of shopping. We headed to the art gallery - this has been a year of gallery visits so we we seen o reason to change now. The Museo de Marco is housed in the towns ex prison building and its very grand. In fact, I think that on this occaision the building might have been more interesting than the art.... Although the visiting exhibition by Susanne S D Themlitz was strangely compelling. It was a huge varied collection of eclectic items... found, salavaged, manipulated and arranged in lots of ways - weirdly inspiring - and mostly enjoyable to look at...

Funchal

So after three days at sea we finally hit Funchal in Madeira. An escape from the ship, and I have to say it was very pleasant indeed. First of all the weather is really splendid. Especially when you know that everybody else in the UK is suffering grim storms and vile winds.. Over here it is between 22 and 25 degrees is really quite warm. Funchal is a pretty city. It's built on a hill it with lots of lovely white houses with stunning red roofs. In order to get the best of it we walked along the sea front until we got to the cable car and we took it up the hill. It was a really good ride much longer than we imagined and it's quite weird because it goes right through the town - completely over everybody's house... So not only do you get a lovely vista of the bay but you can view the beautiful rooftops and get to look in everybody's gardens and to look at their picnic sets.. clean washing nice plants... scratty b...

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