Live Brief - Michael Kidner.

As part of this unit I chose to undertake the Michael Kidner live project, using his paintings as inspiration, interpreting his choice of mild movement and colour proportion.

Taking his simplicity of his art work as a potential focus, choosing to concentrate on his confident use of simple repetitive techniques to drive forward my ideas.

I found that colour and colour proportion was a problem, realising that I was being too bold with some tones when in fact they should be more minimal to represent Kidner’s artwork.

Whilst focusing on the simplicity of suggestive movement and recurring pattern in Kidner’s artwork I wanted to represent this within my knit samples. Using drop stich and Lycra to suggest slight movement, detailing of colour within the sections of drop stitch allowing the excess fabric to bring forward the minimal colour.  Along with the lycra I chose to add slight sections of silk to add softer element, allowing subtle sections of movement. I feel that the contrast of weights in fabric qualities will express his suggestive confident colour and soft fluid lines with in his art work. Testing the colour along side each other to find the suitable proportions that represent his style.

This project has allowed me to push simpler techniques such as ladders and use of drop stitch forward and to focus more on colour proportion on which I would normally struggle. However I still feel with more development this could be a lot more effective and more of a resolved combination in the knit samples.

Wes Gordon.                 .                      

I have taken contextual inspiration from Wes Gordon s/s 16, and his choice of fabric manipulation, exploring how I could apply this to my fashion visualisations. His bold use of all over texture and technique is something to consider in my illustrations. I have found that the expressive movement in both Wes Gordon and Micheal Kidners work, sit along the same lines as each other. I want to bring this substance of professionalism into my samples, working onto the same level as Wes Gordons work . Hopefully portraying my work to the same type of target audience, aiming more towards higher end fashion.