Paper Weavings and a Carnivorous Plant Toile

I've been diligently creating my detritus paper weaves every morning, whether they get posted to Instagram or not.

This latest set is a mixture of leopard, a ditsy, and strips from a print I called Tropical Goth (link)

I became fond of the bits of botanical drawings in the cut strips:

I really liked how they looked on the white ground and felt the motifs would make a great toile print, minus the palm fronds. [Below are "outtakes" from work. I was testing out the colors to get the correct balance of grays. The dark is the rectangle defining the repeat of the print].

Et voila!

Linking up with:
Michelle's Creative Compulsions

EXHIBIT: MATERIALITY & METHOD, A SMALL WORKS FIBER EXHIBITION

Group show of small format works on the theme of Materiality & Method by the members of Textile Arts LA

I have a piece in this!

Leopard x Black Plaid x Pink Stripe
paper weavings of color laser printouts, 4 panels
22 x 9"  ©2019  

DATES
Sun, Sep 8 - Sat, Oct 5, 2019
Pretty Smart
4117 East 4th Street Long Beach, CA, 90814
(map)

OPENING RECEPTION
Sunday, September 8, 2019
4 - 6pm
Link for artist list and more details.

What I wrote with my submission: 
These are small (3x3”) paper weavings from reject color laser printouts of my surface designs. I design prints for a mass market underwear and loungewear company. Since I create artwork for both women’s panties and men’s loungewear, I’m combining the feminine and masculine patterns into one weaving. I’m deliberately choosing combinations that “don’t match”. I started this project on 1/23/19 and since I have an endless supply of reject prints, the project will continue indefinitely.

Paper Weavings from Day Job Detritus

Before this year's A-Z, I started doing paper weavings from reject printouts of my pattern designs at the day job. (I am a surface designer for a mass-market underwear and loungewear company).
I mentioned the process in the post about the Fluevog Faith.

First weaving, January 23:

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Got a #weaving idea this AM during my commute: use "reject" printouts of panty design combos from work. Fun! Now how do I get it to hold together? 🤔 #pattermixing #annembray

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How did I solve my "hold it together" dilemma? Sticking a 4x3" mailing label on the back!

I diligently did this every morning through the first week of April,
until I started getting to work too late to be stealth about it.

This is the last batch, April 2-5:

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Parameters developed over the course of the project (as they tend to do for me):

• Mix a women's panty print with a men's lounge pant print
• Try to make the mixture as uncoordinated as possible

Here's a Camo / Blue Ditsy set from March 6-21:

I've got a lot reject camo printouts on large 11x17 printouts -- I was not having success color matching to a printed garment.

In fact, I gave up, since it became unnecessary.

I've since had to do two other colorways of the camo with even more reject printouts.

I could do a whole camo weave series at this point!

Conclusion: camo is hard to color match, especially to Pantone standard chips.

I've submitted this series to be part of the Otis 100 Projects. We'll see if anything happens.
I'm also committed to get back to weaving detritus. It's relaxing!

#AtoZchallenge F is for Fluevog Faith

Fluevog Faith link 

Let me just say that Photoshop's Warp Tool was my friend on this one.
The sketch required extensive surgery.

I was all set to put this into repeat and then I checked the colorways.

Oh.
More pop contrast in some than I realized.
Back to the "drawing board"!

I also decided that I wanted to incorporate my "woven paper" technique that I've been doing as a dailyweave series (instagram link) for the background of the repeat. Using the upper left colorway, I printed solid squares of the four colors, then did my weaving process:

I was delighted with my results.

Until I tried to get it into repeat in Photoshop:

This is the point when I gave up. I had been wrestling with it for about 25 minutes.

What a headache! Nothing was lining up!

Next.

I replicated the pattern in Illustrator, as a regular grid. Not as "lively", but MUCH easier to work with.
Good thing it's Saturday. If it were a work day, I'd be seriously late!

Sundays are an AtoZ "day off", and I'll use the time to post art to Redbubble and work up colorways for those that request them.
[I wish. In reality, I have to do my homework grading for Monday's class. Sigh.]