Artist research

I want to look at other artist's take on the natural work and how they portray the creatures and movement and life within the piece. 

Rob Wass
I love this piece by Rob Wass, I love fast flowing pieces that portal a lot of energy and movement. The splashes cause the bird to look like it is in movement and brings it to life.

Pablo Picasso
Picasso is well known for his interesting art that astounds audiences the world over, I love this piece of a pig! It holds his classic style and just looks so cute, the fast lines create movement and life.

Kozyndan
This piece by Kozyndan is so cute and interesting, I like his independent approach to art and the combination of nature. The composition of this piece is another thing that attracted me to it, it flows beautifully down.

Kerry Beall
This piece by Kerry is full of life an emotion, you can see the ideas she's wanting to portray and she carries it off well. I like the free movement of the bird as if it is in flight combined with the cold closed cage holding the beautiful bird. We get many ideas from this piece, to me it says that its a shame how we capture amazing free birds and hold them for our own reasons that just don't fit right. 

Dave White: Artist

Dave White is an amazing artist that I have come across, his work is very expressive and beautiful, Dave has had big collaborations such as Nike and Air Jordan. I wanted to research some more in to his work as mush of it links in to what I am doing in this brief. 

I love Dave's work, it focus's on creatures and his work is very expressive and massive, portraying emotion and movement within the piece bringing it to life. 

I love the colours Dave choses to use, they are so bright and vivid, they grab the attention of the people around and pulls them in to look. The splashes add movement so that the eye travels around the piece, and creates a fast moving motion. 

Dave White has some very high profile collaborations, including with the brand Jordan (as seen above) and also with Nike, as seen below. 

Ideas and Colours.

Here are the colours forecasted to be popular in Autumn 2015, most of these colours are commonly popular trend in autumn time every year and as I love autumn colours and styles this brief will be very fun for me. 

Trend colour forcast by WGSN.com

Trend colour forcast by WGSN.com

Now I know and understand my colour and cuts I want to focus on the illustrations that I will be putting on to my clothing line, as my concept is inspired by my Dad I am going to be looking at birds and creatures that remind me of him and what ones he likes that fit the colour schemes and would look good under the themes of Autumn.

My Dad has always loved birds and I have also gotten this trait from him, I have memories of watching pheasants with my Dad as they would be walking down the fields around our farmhouse and in to our garden.

I love the beautiful colours of the feathers and on the faces of these birds and the colours fit in extremely well with the Autumn forecasted trends. 

Owls were always around me as far as I can remember, we always had little paintings of them and ones made from ceramic scattered around our house. Owls have always been creatures of beauty that remind me of british wildlife and everyone loves owls!

I love badgers, and are in my opinion one of the most beautiful creatures in Britain. Once when my Dad was young he walked out of a caravan and stood on something, the creature ran off to one side knocking my Dads balance, and when he looked he realised it was a badger, he's lucky that it ran as they can be vicious! 

Pot bellied pigs have always been something that my Dad loves, he looked after them for most of his life from a very young age, so I also got the love for pigs. And whats more british than a beautiful big pig? 

I want to sit and draw many pigs to see how I can illustrate them in a feminine way that would suit female clothing. 

As I said in my 'Concept Blog' my Dad has had pigeons and homed them through his life so I have been bought up around them. Contrary to what most people think Pigeons are amazing creature and incredibly intelligent. Also, I love the colours of pigeons and I have always admired them from a young age. I think that the colours will fit in well with the forecasted popular colours for autumn 2015.

Canaries may not be a wild british animal but they remind me of my Dad from when we used to keep and show them, so I would like to try and put some canaries in the clothing somewhere. 

The red squirrel might be the cutest wild animal in England, there are few left due to the over population of the American grey squirrel, so they are treasured and protected. I would love to illustrate some squirrels and incorporate them in to my pieces.

Hares are beautiful creature, I used to see them a lot as me, my Dad and my twin would be driving back to our farmhouse, I've always loves them and their long shapes. 

Drawing hare's is fun, they are a good subject for a elegant and expressional piece of art work. 

I absolutely love stags, they are so regal and the british love regal stuff!

Black Milk Clothing : Research on Trends and Styles

Black Milk Clothing is one of my favourite clothing companies, I love their different and bold take on clothing. Each piece is well made and the colours and details of the prints on each piece are so vidid and detailed that I have never seen a print on a piece of clothing that matches up to the Black Milk pieces. 

So, as I love them so much I thought I would research some of their older pieces in the 'Museum' that are no longer for sale to find pieces that are relevant to the colours and season that I want my pieces to reflect and fit in with. The 'Museum' is a section on their web page that shows all of their past pieces that are no longer for sale.

This first dress caught my eye because it carries the colours that fit in well with Autumn with warm yellows and oranges. The illustration on the piece is an amazing piece by Arthur Rackham created in 1907, Arthur Rackham is an artist I have loved for a long time so I'm also incredibly saddened that the piece is no longer available. 

This piece I love, and I also thing the cut is incredible and this sort of cut is forecasted to be a popular trend in Autumn 2015, so I wanted to take a lot at what they did with the cut and how it hangs. I love this piece as it is gothic and also have a feminine touch with the way the skirt hangs.

Here is another dress with a famous piece of art on it, this piece is by Gustav Klimt and called Der Kuss (The Kiss) created in 1908. This piece contains all sorts of colours that work so well with the Autumn time of year, the dark yellows, warm oranges and the peacock greens running thought the piece all compliment each other so well. 

This is one of my favourite pieces in the Museum and has their very popular galaxy print on it. This long cut is also very suitable for Autumn with some changes by adding sleeves and maybe a hood and it would fit perfectly.  

Here are some more leggins with the popular galaxy print with beautiful red and warm colours that would fit with the autumn season well.

These Haunted House leggins are beautiful and gothic, fitting well with the Halloween season within the autumn. The colours coordinate well with the season and the jacket is also a very beautiful cut, a cut that will fit nicely with next autumns forecasted trends. 

This green is a beautiful colour, Black Milk created a collection of cuts and styles in this colour, this colour is seen a lot in the forecasted trends as well as the past trends for autumn.

I love this illustration by Mucca and the colours he chose to use, putting this on a dress is genius and I wish I could have grabbed one before they were stopped being made. The piece is all about autumn and shows the beautiful colours, leaves and a wonderful delicate sense of femininity to the piece. 

I absolutely love gothic pieces of clothing as my own style is quite gothic, and these sorts of pieces always fit well in autumn with the cold weather a longer cut is appreciated and the dark tones create a sense of maturity and simplicity.

These Monet piece leggins are astounding and have all of the appropriate colours and themes within the piece, I feel that it would fit in with spring as well as autumn seasons. 

I like this piece as it is attention grabbing and bold, the colours are very well coordinated and fit well, and the pattern is striking and attracts attention. The fit is very figure hugging and the cut is beautifully simple and hold the pattern extremely well. 

I am in love with the colours and tones used in these leggins, inspired by oil slick and amazing looking on the body I love the altogether piece. 

These colours are very popular in autumn times and I am also looking at these sorts of colours for the potential pheasants on the pieces that I want to create.  

I find these leggins quite reminiscent of the Oil Slick Leggins I have previously looked at in this blog, this pieced has a few more colours and more of an organised layout of the colours and tones. 

I love this piece! The colours are so beautiful and delicate yet striking and very trendy. I like the green paired with the dark greyish black in the background. 

Liberty Autumn 2011 & 2012

I looked through more of Liberty's blog to see what other collections they had posted and I found two more articles, one with a run down of Liberty's Autumn collection in 2012 and also one about Muubaa's Autumn leather collection for 2011.

Here is a picture taken from the Liberty blog that shows a few pieces from each collection for the Autumn clothing in Liberty's in 2012.
I love the 'Dark Romance' collection, I like the colours used and the cuts as they are both feminine and gothic. The cuts are very harsh mixed with a feminine touch and hang well on the models. The colours used are the sorts of colours and shades that I want to use with my collection.
The 'Orientalise' collection is also very gothic in places which I love, and carry the soft gracefulness of the oriental patterns.
The 'Opulent Elements' collection also relate to the previous two collections through the gothic and feminine values, this also related to the 'Fabric Fusion collection'
The 'Colourama' collection is very bright and vivid compared to the previous collections and the cuts are very flower reminiscent in my opinion, keeping a spring and summer touch to the pieces.
The 'Into The Wild' Collection is stunning and it is full of strong captivating colours and prints with a very chick look. 

This picture was taken from the Liberty blog.
It shows two beautiful jackets from Muubaa, the beautiful jackets are beautiful Autumn relevant colours and have a lovely edgy look to them. 

History of Autumn looks in Liberty

I want to look at past trends chosen and used by Liberty, by doing this I could see what they seem to like and how I could relate my ideas towards it and create something that will stand out and be relevant to Liberty and their styles. To look for some older Autumn styles I went to Liberty Craft Blog and found a blog about Liberty's Autumn and Winter styles of 2013.

I love all of these patterns and how they are inspired by natural and organic things and also some are inspirited by William Morris's poetry. All of the colours co-ordinate well with the Autumn and Winter themes and the patterns are beautifully intricate. They all show true artistry and detail and this makes a good fit to the well made clothing sold by Liberty. 

My Concept

I have spent a great deal of time thinking about what concept I want to use for this brief, as it is an important and live brief I want to pick something that I will enjoy to do so that I can get the best work out of myself and also something that would be applicable to the style that Liberty's stock and would want to stock.
The concept I have come to decide on is based around my Dad, my Dad is very important to me and has always been a massive inspiration to me through my life so I want to do my first live brief based around him and his likes. I want to illustrate things that I associate with my Dad and the things he likes, Liberty stock a lot of British and nature based prints and object and my Dads likes are very suitable for this.
My Dad likes things such as big British pigs, birds and British wildlife such as deer. So I want to spend a lot of time illustrating these sorts of things and see how I can apply them to the forecasted styles and cuts of clothing for Autumn 2015. My Dad loves pigeons and used to home them when I was young and I spent a lot of time with him and helping him with the birds, we also had show canaries that I helped with and we spent time together with. These are the sorts of memories that I cherish and I would love to use them as a source of inspiration, so I like the idea of using these birds. He also loves looking for wild birds around where he lives and not long ago he got excited at hearing a bird he had never seen in real life so rushed up the hills with his binoculars to see it. So, wild British birds would be a good thing to keep looking at and illustrating, I'll also enjoy this as I share his love for birds.
The main idea I like is pheasants, the colours of the feathers would work with the colour forecast well for Autumn 2015 and I have lovely memories of watching pheasants from big windows with my Dad with his binoculars as they walked down the fields around our old farmhouse and in to our garden.
We also had cows and calfs right outside our door that I would go to see so I want to look at ideas of little cows and some pigs as my Dad absolutely loves pigs and collects everything with pigs on.

The next step I am going to take towards narrowing ideas is to play with the colour palette predicted for Autumn 2015 and then work in to the colours with illustrations of birds and wildlife.

Autumm Trends 2015

The open call for Liberty's is in August next year so I want to look at Autumn trends as that season follows straight after August and would be most applicable to put in the shop for sale. I went to WGSN.com for the trend forecasts for Autumn 2015 to find out the predicted popular cuts, designs and colours that I could use for my pieces. 

This shows the colour palette predicted for Autumn next year. I like these colours and autumn is my favourite time of year so it will be fun for me to create around the autumn themes. The colours also match up with some of the ideas that I am wanting to apply to the clothing.

I really like cuts like this and using this sort of cut will be fun to design around as the design leaves a lot of room for illustrations to take the concentration to. 

This cut leaves a lot of room on the back for a large illustration or it is a good cut for a repetitive pattern.

I love hoods with faux fur lining the hood and I think it is a perfect look for the autumn season. 

This is another cut that would be easy to add illustrations to. 

This looks so comfy and warm and I think the cut would be nice to use.

I love long skirts and so I would love to make some with my illustrations. 

Here is a breakdown of all the cuts that are predicted to be popular in Autumn 2015.