Shayleigh Faye
Technology used:
-Procreate
-Lectra/Kaledo Print
-Photoshop
Naïve Pastures
Naïve Pastures is a Canadian Folk Art Inspired textile collection for home furnishing. This collection features four designs depicting a naïve art style with asymmetrical motifs and a limited color pallet. The goal of this collection is to evoke a feeling of simplistic visual bliss through these patterns and their application to interior furnishings.
Process:
My process for Naïve Pastures began with my search for inspiration which led me to Canadian Folk Art. I focused on the work of Joseph Norris, Maud Lewis and Albert Robinson, wanting to use simplified objects with a vibrant yet limited color pallet. From here I began to create an order of operations for how I would get the ideas in my mind onto an eventual textile using the following steps
Step 1: Procreate
Step 2: Lectra Kaledo Print
Step 3: Photoshop
Step 4: Samples
Step 1: Procreate
After deciding on simplified motifs of flowers and cats, I experimented with dynamic motifs. I wanted my images to be able to fit in close to one another so I loosely based the cats off of Tetris blocks. An aesthetic goal I had was to create motifs that were comforting and friendly.
Step 2: Lectra/ Kaledo Print
Lectra/ Kaledo Print is the name of the software I used to turn my motifs into repeatable tiles and convert the colors to LAB where they could finally be printed. I played around with swapping the colors of my motifs with a fill bucket and eventually landed on 4 final prints, 3 tossed and one stripe. Below shows the data collection for my patterns.
Step 3: Photoshop
In photoshop, while I waited for my samples to come back, I was able to surface map my images onto furniture I thought embodied my collection. In here, I could also mess around with in depth color settings to make my collection fit in with a particular room lighting or saturation.
Step 4: Samples
I received and professionally surged and boarded my samples to be a tangible replication of this collection. The colors were printed onto woven canvas using lab settings to add brightness to the darker tones.