Here is another one of my designs for scarves, all hand painted. I am currently working on my third scarf which will be ready at the beginning of next week...

This is me working on my first scarf design, featuring horses and bird wings hiding behind the Horses.... I have used a mixture of fine line and painted detailed surface pattern.

 

Here are a select number of images taken of visual merchandising from the flagship department stores, Harrods, Selfridges, Harvey Nichols and Libertys in London. I enjoyed looking at the scarves from designers such as Manolo Blahnick, Etro, Swash, Richard Weston plus many more from Libertys including Libertys own range......

Today is Saturday and I'm on my way to London to research for another project but it also gives me a fantastic opportunity to find inspiration for my scarf collection. I have been asked to paint, by hand, 60x60 scarves and I'm working on that now. I'll be taking pictures whilst in London and post my findings. I'll keep you updated within the next couple of days with my progress!

I have been thinking about doing some cut out work on a fashion piece for my final show using a pattern I have made to cut cut from and showing my image/illustration (in digital print)peeping through the cut out work....I came across these images from Print source of some dresses that had been made similar for one of there previous collections. I have also worked on a couple of scarf designs over the weekend too..

  

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Cutout collections by Cynthia Rowley, Marni and Emilio de la Moreno

Images below are from the stunning collections by Marchesa

Well this week or so has been an extremely tough and tiring week, working through to some god forsaken hours, my arm aches from drawing and painting and the only thing that is keeping me going are over sized cans of red bull, but have just got to keep going at the pace I have been... I had a review of my work last week that went well, and up to now are pleased with the results. There is so much to think of with, what feels like, so little time. I had been asked to develop my images further and also introduce more flowers/trees etc to start layering my images and bringing them forward into design. I have currently started to put some of my work together and hopefully by the start of next week have my designs ready to work on...