Monday, January 11, 2010

Patterns I

Last year I created a series of patterns.
It was a joy to do them. Pure drawing and inking.
They were done as a part of a project, we were going to do our own xmas gifts, the plan was to screenprint fabric with the patterns and then do shopping and messenger bags for friends and family.

I chose to do the screenprint myself, and that meant buying all the material, and basically learn to do it on the fly.

All was a disaster.

No problems with the patterns, or printing them on large format.

I got the materials... but the burning of the screen with the images, the time, the space, and even the noise (the pressure water on the screen do a very loud and weird noise) complicated things to the point in which was very obvious that it was going to be impossible to have all on time for xmas... even if I managed to have the fabric, we had yet to do the bags.
And I was working mostly at night.

So, yeah, another incomplete project.

Of course we got gifts for xmas anyway...

And since all the patterns were for xmas, I didn't put them here.
Now the story is different, I'm writing over one of them, the Buses... inspired in our cataclysmic public transportation service here in Lima/Peru. I like it a lot (the pattern, not the actual buses!).

But here is bigger for you to look, the basic module and the repeated pattern.
Latter I'll put the others.

















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