Project Conclusion

I’ve learnt a lot about my creative process and learned new techniques such as screen printing to becoming much more confident with Photoshop. Also I believe I’ve achieved what I said in my statement of intent, where I wanted to contemporize Indian traditions with my own interpretations. Furthermore I created a series using both traditional process e.g. hand drawing, line drawings, screen printing, stencils etc and technically advanced process such as photography, Photoshop and illustrator.

The designs have been very successful too due to intense development and research. The success is down to the mixture of media I utilized, the amount of research I did and the layering of imagery.

I’m very happy with my final outcomes and hope to achieve a good grade.

The rest of the designs

Diwali

The festival of lights, where Hindu's worship Laxshmi, and the celebration of good over evil aka the Ramayan story!

This is the final silhoette that I was previously developing, all the female Hindu goddesses are in this style. I added grounds, Diva lamps, lots of layering to fill the image

Using photo's from the Hindu temple in Leicester I created another Diwali design, I used prints as grounds, type, drawings etc.

Guru Arjan Ji and Basakhi

This Sikh Guru gave up his life and suffered much torture in the heat of a desert. In his remembrance Sikhs give out cold non alcoholic drinks. I took this idea and developed a ‘juice bar’ stall but in a typical Indian stall hut one would get in India.

Photo’s were taken at the Gurdwara’s I visited in derby and Sheffield. The 5 men represent the panj pyare who were willing to give up their life and also the Nishan Sahib which symbolizes the identity of Sikhism. Choice of colour was the typical orange and blue which is commonly used as part of traditional Sikh wear.

Guru Nanak

Silhoette form- contemporary style . Use of text in figure which was inspired by research

Karva Chauth

Where women fast for their husband's in order to bless them with a long life, the women dress up as brides and wear decorative bindi's etc

Holi

On this day it's tradition to drink milk and weed mixed together, another amusing idea....