An Impressionist Behaviour

During a project in print we were asked to look at plants/nature and create our own prints based around a trend and our own inspiration. I was intrigued by the Impressive bloom and artistically smudged, which fit my style very well because of my obstructive and 'disorganized' tones. My inspiration was based around Henry Rousseau, and his post impressionist styles around the jungle and nature (this also fits in very well with an upcoming trend SS15 for impressionist art) Other inspirations were plant cells and the molecular and mathematical structures of nature. One for example is symmetry which is in everything, by using a method that I'm sure we've all done as kids, by folding paper\fabric in half and adding paints to one side and flattening it. this creates an interesting smudge effect. 

Mood board about styles and ideas

here are a few of my finalised samples, I wanted to create an urban undertone of a 'concrete jungle' with abstract lines and dimensions.  If i would have had more time i would have explored different dying techniques such as low immersion dying and discharge dying to explore how fabric reacts to different dyes and process. 

Photoshopped a sample with exaggeration on the hue and saturation

Edited using threshold tool