Watercolours.

I recently discovered that I had an underlying passion for watercolours. I came across it researching for a technique. My main inspiration came from Elizabeth Blackadder. She paints flowers using watercolours. Her technique is very free and fluid and that was what I really liked about it. I had a lot of fun experimenting with it and used my drawings and her inspiration to inspire a trends book that I put together. By creating the trends book I discoverd a new way to present my work and alo a new love for painting.

Watery bloom trend book :

I used my flower drawings to create a front cover for my trend book. I have been learning photoshop which has helped improved my design ideas by using a selection of my drawings and creating patterns.

My pattern ideas

I used my pattern ideas and put them onto fashion ideas. I used photoshop to do this. I tweeked the colours and then used shadows and shading to make it look realistic. 

I will hopefully re-visit this technique possible for my final major project in the next year. I really enjoyed it and created some good design ideas.