During the first week of my internship at Mirjam Rouden Textile Design Studio I was told to draw flowers to help create some designs to be scanned into photoshop to be made into floral compositions to be digitally printed. At first, I thought this would be for a few hours but after two whole days of drawing I started to find myself very bored.

Themes we were told to focus on in the studio were florals, because this is a very popular theme for spring, and also, animal prints and animal skins, which was something i believed was much more relevant to my kind of work then flowers and florals, which is something Mirjam also agreed on, on looking through my portfolio. In a sense i felt like Mirjam was criticising me for not having florals in my portfolio, even though nothing was ever mentioned when i applied for the internship.

Interestingly, Mirjam explained to us not to use green or to use as little amounts of green as possible within our drawings because green is most unpopular colour fashion. This was something i was unaware of and so, was very valuable to learn.

Mirjam then chose what drawings she liked and what she thought would translate well into a print. There was definately a lot of tension in the studio when she was walking past and judging people's drawings, because some of the drawings we thought were really good she would think were not good at all and unsuitable. It was always a surprise to each of us what drawings she liked and so it was just constantly a guessing game.