Finalising Wallpaper Design

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I have created my final wallpaper design. I chose to continue on with the “watercolour effect” painting designs which were inspired by Gretchen Albrecht’s earlier work where she created landscapes and scenery with an abstract eye.

Her expressionist style was developed using thinned acrylic to create this watercolour effect, and when playing with this technique in my previous iterations, I found this to be more effective than a smaller scale repeating patter. Her work is very bold, bright and large, I think that I have fit all these criteria with a gradient of colours creating a rainbow effect, and keeping most of the colour scheme in a analogous order similarly to a lot of her paintings.

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I like the effect of layering within my design, it looks almost as if multicoloured thin fabrics have been over-layed to create a translucent shift where they meet and cover one another. I also think the occasional moment of blur and bleed is really important and frequent across Gretchen’s collection, hence I introduced it in to this final iteration, as the previous design had no bleed or smudging of the colours.

I think that this colour exhibition will make for a really intriguing display in the artist residence, and will brighten and bring excitement to the space as the bold colours are inspiring, uplifting and animating.

I have chosen to place my wallpaper in a hallway, as I want it to be in a transitional area. Her work is frequently of nature, and landscapes, and majority of her paintings are transitional moments (sunsets, sunrises, seasonal change, cloud movement etc). I think bringing not only her style and techniques through to my design, but also her narrative and inspiration (transitioning moments) would be a really good tribute to her work and is really effect with her colour use and how the bleed and transition. So I have chosen a hallway next to the stairwell. This location gets the most light out of the entire level, and reflects so much brightness around the area, with a colourful base for the sunlight to shine on, man array of colour can glow around the space, creating an uplifting, magical feeling, as if you are standing within a rainbow.📷