zooming in

Vogue Australia, May, 2008

This print design was one of my initial inspirations and I really liked the subtle colour transition used for the background so I decided to change tact in creating my background designs and try cropping and zooming in on different areas of my photos to try create natural colour gradients...

 I cropped this photo down to a section on the main petal where there is a colour transition from orange to purple to red.

 I then enlarged this section and flipped it on the vertical axis.(I realised afterwards that this selection actually featured an ant sitting there which I loved as it added to the natural authenticity of the print.)

I really like the natural transition of colours created in this image and think it has great possibility to be turned into something more...

I then repeated these effects [crop, enlarge, flip] on another section of the flowers petals to create this darker colour transition. I think this background has more depth and I could really envisage an interesting detailed design on top so I started pieces together some of my original flower motifs...

These are are the 3 flower motifs I started designing with

I started by adding a sketch filter to the images, and then began duplicating, rotating and resizing each flower creating a montage of sorts...

 

 This was then overlayed onto my gradient background

 I then attempted to put the simple montage into a toss repeat. 
I rotated the canvas as I thought vertical lines would be more slimming for a textile garment...

I was quite pleased with this outcome but again I did not love it, I feel it lacks interest and is a bit too boring I decided I wouldnt want to wear a garment made using this print

I thought I may as well see what the toss montage would look like on my original colour gradient and played around with different rotations, mirrors and filters...

 I think number 1 is my favourite and could possibly be further developed into my final design!