Fashion and Surface Design -

We have been given architecture to focus on for our fashion and surface design project. As soon as I found out what our project brief was, I immediately went onto Pintrest to search for garments and inspiration for this project. When I was on Pintrest I came across this page which purely shows white architectural objects and buildings. The pure colour scheme and the plain, yet intriguing look interested me. From there, I decided to look for pastel and white architecture, which is when I came across Russell house in Covent gardens in London.

While i was drawing up my sketches and ideas, i realised that i was going more towards fashion rather than surface design, which then lead me to do fashion illustrations of dresses and light flowing garments, which were all in pastel colours. However, i found that in most of my research the buildings and architectural objects had all had straight, flat edges, so I decided to try and incorporate this into the floaty garments.

I have also decided that I am going to be using a screen print technique in my final garment. In order to get the clean cut edges of the skyline and buildings that I wanted, screen printing would be the safest option. I can then paint over the screen print over the screen print by hand once it is dried to finish the final look of the garment.

Photomedia

I have now all finished my photomedia project! I did really enjoy this project and I feel as if my work has already improved from the first project that we did. I used photoshop to manipulate photographs that I had taken in the studio, cutting away the faces of the subjects in the photographs and replacing them with scenic images. I do feel as if this really portrayed my idea of rapprochement as it shows the harmonious relations between people and nature. Also by cutting away the faces of the subjects in the photograph, it gives them no identity, a clean slate, it makes them new.

Photomedia - Rapprochement

This week we were given new projects, for this particular one in photo media, we were given a dictionary  in which we had to pick a word at random to base our project around. My word was 'Rapprochement'! As I didn't know much about this word my first step was to find the definition, which happened to be 'an establishment or resumption of harmonious relations'. My initial thoughts when I first read this were identities and relationships. It was about people, countries, things coming together and being combined to one.

Within this project I would like to really portray rapprochement through people and their identities, making them into something new.

Week Three

Week 2 - Experimentation

This week I have been experimenting with many different materials and surfaces, which could be used to place my images on.

I went into a graphic design warehouse called Teklagraph to use their exposure and dark room to print onto metals. I used my film roll to expose the image onto the light sensitive metal. This worked extremely well and made me wonder about what else I could do with the photographs that I had taken. I could experiment with the laser cutter with my images on many different materials such as fruit, wood, fabric, metal and other materials. I could also print my photographs onto the different surfaces or stickers.

I now have a rough idea of whatI would like to do for my final pieces within this project, I would like to use one of my photographs and cut through it to create holes in the paper, this is so when I hold it up to the light you can see the light and background come through the image in the shape of what the image itself is. I had experimented with this when we went to uphill and Sandbay to sketch. This was one of my favourite techniques that I had experimented with as the end effect was astonishingly beautiful. However, when I first did this technique, I used paper, however when I held it up to the light, the paper flopped and folded, so the next time I do this, I would like to use metal to make it sturdier.

My sketch book is also coming along well, as I've been doing a lot of artists research and annotation of my images and experiments.

Land and Water - Week One

This week we were given our first project; Land and Water. Our brief for this project was to explore the environments around us, marking down anything that inspires us or any emotions that these environments inflict upon us.
Our class headed down to Uphill for the afternoon to do some sketches and to get a feel of what our project was going to be like, however, as I am basing my project around photo media, I also used a Pentax K1000 film camera to capture to beauty of the atmosphere.

My main aim was to combine Land and Water together using both sketches and photography, to do this, I sketched a tree and cut out the leaves which left holes in the paper. When I had finished I held the paper up to the background of the place I had been studying and took a photograph. The result of this was the leaves having the same pattern and picture as the background behind it. This way, I had combined land and water together into one collective piece of work. I felt as if this was the most inspiring and accurate way to represent the scenery around me, it not only illustrated the visual scenery, but the emotional, peaceful atmosphere as well. I then went on to use this same technique in other locations with different patterns and shapes to be made.

Dismaland

One of the art exhibitions that I visited over the summer was Banksys controversial bemusement park, which displayed his own and over 50 other artists work.

                 

                                           

The beauty and detail behind each individual work of art was astonishing, each piece had a deeper meaning as well as portraying current issues and problems in the society we live in today. Instead of sugar coating the major problems and issues that surround us, it made them into very intriguing pieces of art which made you question the world that we live in today.

                     

I believe that the main reason Banksy's Dismaland appeals to me so much os the sheer raw beauty and ugliness of the world and art combined. The most interesting and meaningful piece of art that i came upon was the posters by WastedRita. This artist plastered walls in somewhat conteroversial love and sex sayings, break-ups and emotions. The simplness of her art is one of the main aspects that interested me, as well as the emotional value behind the work.

     

In my own personal work I like to focus on the emotion and meaning, there is fire and emotions, it makes you stop and think. That is what I aim to have my own personal work represent.