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How I Incorporate Original Artwork into My Fabric Pattern Designs

10/19/2015

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Designing of fabric patterns has been the focus in the last two classes I have taken at the University of Art Academy in their online MFA program. This semester I am deepening my understanding of fabric patterns and learning to incorporate original artwork in the designs.

The latest inspiration is the use of florals in fabric designs - florals are my passion. I love anything nature-related as nature provides a never-ending source of color and texture combinations. Below you can see examples of how I took original artwork and created fabric patterns in PhotoShop.

By original artwork I mean my own drawings of natural shapes or photos of leaves. For instance, Pattern 1 is a scanned image of two watercolor paintings I did. I manipulated the paintings in PhotoShop by altering the color saturation and transparency to achieve a balanced interplay between the various elements. In Pattern 3, I took a photo of leaves and applies PhotoShop filters to achieve a highly stylized and abstracted pattern where one cannot really identify the original shape of the leaves. 

Combining my artwork with PhotoShop capabilities is a great and quick way to explore many variations of the same idea. And I always have a blast experimenting! 
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Pattern 1 (Watercolor Painting)
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Pattern 2 (Pencil Rubbing of Leaf)
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Pattern 3 (Photo of Leaf)
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Pattern 4 (Watercolor Painting)
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Pattern 5 (Watercolor Painting)
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Pattern 6 (Photo of Plant)
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