MATISSE
As I have mentioned in previous posts dedicated to this project, this project in particular will be inspired by the work of Henri Matisse, hand lettering and logos of famous film studios such as Columbia, Dream Works and Paramount. At the beginning I started working on these compositions with all these inspirations separately. I was planning to make two Matisse t-shirts and two Studio t-shirts, separately. These are the first illustrations and compositions I came up with:
1st Designs
When I had finished them I was really quite happy with them and found them aesthetically quite impacting. But, after a chat with my tutor who mentioned that the designs looked like a t-shirt made for Henri Matisse, like a souvenir for a museum, I saw it immediately and no longer liked my work. It was too commercial, not unique enough and very different from my usual work which is not always a bad thing but in this case, it was. Anyhow, I decided I would print them anyway as practice, research and experimentation. Also because I had planned to do a lot of foiling and flocking on these t-shirts and needed to practice and see the result. The was important because I had never involved flocking and foiling in my previous designs and collections because I have never liked it on t-shirts. My opinion is that it looks a bit cheap and old fashioned.
1st TSHIRT
/IN THE PROCESS OF PRINTING/
/COLOUR AFTER COLOUR/
2ND TSHIRT
ADD PHOTOS WITH FAILED EXPERIMENT OF FOIL AND VELVET
The printing came out perfect, bold and crisp. But the flocking and foiling was another story. It was not successful at all, and I did not like the way it looked at all, it made the t-shirts look even more old fashioned and common. Every time I have tried flocking and foiling on textile it has never worked very well and overtime it was with black foiling. It was my thought that if I were to use flocking and foiling in the future it would be in much smaller quantities in a much smaller part of the design, in a discreet way. A wink, not a shout.
SALOMÉ GAUTIER 