Shapes & Colour

After spending some time on my drawings and colour experiments I decided to see how I can make the two combine to make some designs. I thought it would be a good idea to use my colour work as backgrounds behind my drawings so I started to play around with layering geometric shapes. I began overlapping shapes such as triangles, circles and squares because the designs I have been looking at, by artists such as Leif Podhajsky, have inspired me to use shape in my work. I think the shapes layered over the outbursts of colour work well together to produce a psychedelic trancelike illusion. As I have also drawn a lot of feathers I am thinking of using them in my designs by adding some colour and pattern to them. I think I could get some interesting effects if I scanned some of the feathers that I have collected along the way of this project and made them into patterns. I am now ready to experiment with these shapes and backgrounds on photoshop and illustrator to see if I can progress them into some designs for fashion prints. As I have based this work around hippies and looked a lot into festivals for inspiration I have decided that I would like my final designs to be for a young market for festival wear.