Flora and Sonia
Abstract Floral Patterns for Bedroom Textiles
Our collection was inspired by the French artist Sonia Delaunay's orphism art style.
Above are the main overarching colors of the collection. The colors for this collection were picked specifically from paintings done by Sonia Delaunay. The colors chosen were ones that were the most used in her paintings and decided to stay in a limiting color palette similar to her.
Pattern Collection
Flower Bouquet
Blooming Field
Cascading Perennials
These are the three patterns of the collection which includes one key pattern, one striped pattern, and one coordinate pattern. This collection was made with gouache paint and Photoshop.
End Uses
These are texture mapped images with the patterns on them so that the patterns can be showcased on their intended end use.
These images of products were found on Google.
Process
The collection started as research into different famous textile artists and Sonia Delaunay was one of the ones suggested to me. I then took the research and created a inspiration board of some of her paintings and textile work. I analyzed her work and created a color palette that pulled colors from her work that I thought represented colors that she used often.
After the inspiration board and the color palette was created, I then started to paint motifs inspired by her style of mostly geometric shapes but also took some inspiration from quilts which also inspired Sonia as well. I wanted to motifs to have a slightly painterly feel to them like she had within her art. Once I painted all of the motifs, I scanned the motifs into Adobe Photoshop and cleaned the motif edges. I then decided that I wanted to also have only outlines of all of them to make patterns with just the outlines of the motifs. I did this in Photoshop by tracing all of the motifs in another document.
Once I had all of the different motifs created and cleaned, it was now time to create patterns within Photoshop. I did some extra research on how to create repeating patterns within Photoshop in a different pattern than a basic straight pattern. I found how to create the design in a brick pattern so I thought that this would be a good time to test it out on a pattern. I decided to test it out with the Blooming Field pattern pictured in the photo above on the right.
Once all three patterns were created, the next step was to play around with the backgrounds. I decided that I wanted to have each pattern have the option to have all of the six colors in the color palette as the background color. Then for the Cascading Perennials I felt that the space between the stripes were a little too empty so I added the Blooming Fields pattern in the background in a lighter color to add some more visual interest into the background and to help with the cohesion of the patterns.