A Blast from the Past

I was recently looking through a sketchbook from a little while back. We had to design several different prints and present them to a client. My chosen theme was 1940's and the item of clothing I wanted to base it on was an apron. For my research I looked at lots of magazine cutouts and i found a book of fashion in the 1940's so, I did quite a few labeled drawings from the book which gave me an insight into the materials used and the shapes of clothes worn. I also looked at numerous websites that sold vintage aprons and printed materials.
I only looked at two artists, Cath Kidston. Her work is awesome, enough said. The other was Egon Schiele, his style of drawing was strangely close to my own.
I tried out several different printing techniques and were really please with the results. I experimented with; collograph, emulsion printing, dry point, image maker I even tried repeating patterns on photoshop. I'd created quite a few prints by this point and had to narrow it down to three.
For my final piece, I hand stitched two aprons, created three final prints and photographed my model (Laura Wright) in a 1940's style dress and apron, I worked on this photograph in photoshop to make it look a little more rustic.