Archive collection - week 4

For the 2nd part of unit inventions, we have been taken to a trip at the Royal Armouries Museum.

In the museum, I was really fascinated by the naturalistic pattern on some armours, which looked royal and privileged. I have seen most of these designs on the armour in silver and golden colours, which has made the armour piece look worth, also it made me think that these armours might be used by the high approached people in the war e.g. monarchs, troopers, etc

I have taken many photos of the details given on the armours from different sections of the museum. My photographic collection contains French designed guns, Muslim knives, swords, Indian swords and armours and also British armours. An example is given down below:

 Field armour from the Royal Armouries Museum. 

I really like the decoration been produced on these type of armours at the museum. I really loved the movements of patterns in these designs, it's flowy and merged, but exquisite.  I could see some birds, animals and figurative images of a person on them. Therefore, this type of archive collection describes us as a new generation that creativity is all in ones' hand and no matter what we have we can't stop creating beauty through our talent.

My drawing study from the Royal Armouries Museum.

The image at the top (my drawing study...) is been collaged with my drawings and the drawing inspiration. I have started making my drawings in my own way, by rearranging the shapes of the decorative patterns and objects/shapes on the armours.

Also, I was really interested in the combination of heavy-weight red velvety fabric with the metal. I think the red and little goldish shades on the metals makes the metal look more visible and attracting at the same time. Maybe, the colour red might be used to show the war aggression and anger. Therefore, I had decided to use this as my colour theme.

However, I was also attracted by the Indian collection in the Royal Armouries Museum because my first part of this unit was based onto Indian, embroidery patterns. An example of my drawing from the Indian section is shown down below:

My drawing and inspiration photographs from The Royal Armouries museum.

I really loved the way my drawings started to collaborate with colours and patterns from the museum. Therefore, I started to take this drawing style furthermore to make different samples, specifically from the Indian section in the museum.

This week, I also prepared the screen for foil and flock printing. I was inspired by the samples of these techniques in the print room. I had never learned these techniques but with the help of a technician, I learned this technique. I love the way flock printing has turned out. It gives the print a velvety and soft texture. which I had decided to take it furthermore in my sample making. An example is shown below;

Flock printing in black.