My career as a surface designer started when my use of silkscreen as an art medium coincided with the
Pattern and Decoration art movement. Back then, I had NO IDEA I'd be designing underwear prints 30 years later!
These are the oldest examples of my silkscreen work that I could find in the house. (There are older ones out in the garage but they're extremely buried. Until I get an intern, I can't get to them. Harhar). They are from the "1st Series" set. Hmmm, maybe they ARE the first of this patterny-type genre.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgdajAAVy_hoGPszSVhmgWmK4BhE0E0JwGuUFLS57ATxWA6jvkDdluLPoI7WpxjyevChjl89PQ23Tj6gNDC_Na-rZVjP4DUTLFdHjZtqUYq5I-QZ08lT1Zb_Wm6bVwmCjrnjmvv84TjG4/s400/75history1stSeries.jpg) |
I had a very different color aesthetic then |
Looking at these confirmed my idea of taking all this abstract work and turning them into repeats. I fooled around changing the colorway on the 3rd:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitSMeipab-qd6pninwLi0u2bLJQ2S0vBdmLOs8ZvA-mPYK9v_9rwodyTlXU7aamwhrBLUjDg_gUFT5ThnbXHLesfnGnAuW0NP8PKhq9tececRSFR3bbCrlumD00qtMAWRHu0wSnA1johI/s320/mono7REPredBlu.jpg) |
also rotated it
this is my current color crush: lt blue/royal/red
doesn't quite make it
looks like a flag |
I'm going to stay with the original colors and make it patchworky with a grid of patterned boxes. Stay tuned!