#developing samples

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[phoebewells]

Candle making today to add to my product collection, flavour is champagne and roses to calm and refresh and pick up your spirits.

[phoebewells]

Playing with composition and shape with my concrete/cement/plaster samples.

I love the geometric shapes working together.

Jesmonite/resin is easy to clean and is more possitive on the health and safety front for the environment than silicone so I am scrapping silicone as a material now but still using the process of embedding for inspiration but using Jesmonite and resin instead.  

I will now scan these samples into photoshop and make a start on creating a collection of prints using the textures and qualities of the hard samples I have created, concentrating on:

geometric shapes

minimalism

texture

simplicity

calming and soothing designs with balance

tranquil neutral colour palette

Specifically targeted at the homeware interior marketplace.

[phoebewells]

Just picked my silicone samples up and I am loving the results as they are so different from the other samples I have done but will still work well paired with them.

The pale pastel green is so nice and works so well with the whole clove spice and lavender.

The lavender doesn’t keep its smell so much but the cloves really smell strong and fresh and I love the surface pattern it creates as it’s so simple and looks like acorns coped to the floor or seats that have blown away in the wind.

The delicate light grey splash of colour from the lavender creates a surface pattern that almost looks like marbelling and I like the contrast of the thicker tile here also as it looks more like a plant that is flowering and growing.

Although I didn’t think I’d like the larger scale silicone with the rads embedded more densely I think it works well as a stand out piece paired with more delicate tiles,bit’s looks very much like a futuristic and synthetic plant growing in nature.

I will further experiment with these developed samples using them in visualisations to see the difference in effect.

[phoebewells]

Messing around in the silicone workshop again today to get a few more samples done before assessment.

I am working with embedding densely into silicone this time around to contrast with the very minimal samples I did before, I am also working with embedding scent for smell and surface pattern, including lavender and chai spices, working with a pastel green silicone to contrast against the transparent silicone, and I think the coloured silicone works so much better with the natural items embedded more densely as the whole point in the transparent samples is so you can see through parts of it to layer it over fabric and print.

The colours are a lot more delicate and will work as a whole as a contrast between the transparent and pink samples I have previously done.

[phoebewells]

Laser engraving today, this technique is my favourite by far, i absolutely love the effect,as it’s less literal and it’s more delicate which is the effect I am going for wih my project.

I prefer the engraved effect in the recycled acrylic because the acrylic plate is transparent and has the see through quality that I am running as an overall theme for my project with my embedded silicone samples ect.

I am now going to work with layering some of the techniques such as digital print, laser engraved plastic, silicone tiles, lighting and cement tiles to see what results I get.

[phoebewells]

A mixture of my resin, silicone and cement samples, working with embedding and preserving in unexpected non traditional materials to create surface pattern and print. I love the way he’s samples had turned out and need to start working on displaying them in various compositions on a wall to work as wall surface designs working with various scale and colour/detail, so that each tile is minimal in approach but when they are all put together then work equally well at creating a large scale unconventional wall surface pattern with unconventional materials and processes hopefully keeping the theme and feel of nature and organic form throughout.

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Experimenting with pattern and colour today, working with spray paint and using recycled metal cogs with interesting circular patterns almost like natural mandalas.

Working with a few of the colours in palette, green, blue, yellow and pink, I used multipurpose spray paint to stencil the patterns onto the silicone tiles I made a few days back, then lacquered over the top to give an extra protective layer to the paint and to make it hold a bit better.

I like the white silicone tiles better than he grey ones for painting on, as the stenciled patterns look more effective with the white bits showing through.

I may no work with these explorative samples and take them through to digital prints or screen print templates, and work on layering my processes, I may even try layering up the translucent circular embedded samples I did a few days back on top of the spray painted patterned circular silicone tiles and see what effects I get.

I need to start working on composition now, Experimenting with possibe wall layouts on a board, exploring possible ways of my silicone tiles to stick to a wall, maybe magnets or glue ?