Showing posts with label textiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label textiles. Show all posts

Friday, 4 April 2014

Portfolio Boards

 This board is apart of my project in Level 4 where we were given a selection of words to choose from and I chose Surrealism because I've always been interested in symbolism and conceptual Art and felt it was a great idea translating that into something 3D. In this project I decided to run with a dreams and self conscious route. This board shows a few jewellery samples I played with, using different techniques. Flattening wire worked from automatic drawings I created before bed, hand written words using small dome punches, wrapping wire, using contrasting materials and machine embroidery.
 This board shows a few of my Textiles samples from the same project where I developed symbols in my dreams using acetate, a black pen and hand embroidery.
 This is one of my textiles final pieces which was a transfer I illustrated combining different aspects of my work self consciously arranging it then later applying it to a soft shiny satin which reminded me of a dream work and embroidering then adding copper wire forms coming out of the piece.
This board shows my Jewellery Final piece which was a round fancinator created using copper, I used wire to create aspects of my automatic drawing and words that reflected a mood within my dreams. I used a lions eyes that would hover over our own once it was worn which was a symbol within my dreams. 
This board is one of my first projects from Level 4, where were were given a shape to create our final pieces out of. I was given a triangle and this was my design process board for jewellery. This project was very useful as we explored techniques and it sparked my love for jewellery.

This board represents a group project we were assigned in Level 5 Professional Studies. It was a group project where we were placed into business groups teamed up with Young Enterprise, a company with start-up programmed to help start businesses. 


 Here is some design development from my first project of Level 5 FdA Applied Arts.
This project was based around perspective and developed from my own imagery where I experimented with using metal and distressed plastic to create a fog and different points of view.








Saturday, 9 November 2013

Into The Swing of Things

This week has been much more relaxing than any other week and I think that's because the weeks of experimentation are winding down but I've been more organised in textiles because it's not my strongest subject so I had an idea of drawing a mini design for a sample down in my sketchbook ready for my workshop days, then going ahead and making it or just playing and improvising.

I've enjoyed working as a group in textiles on our mini brief and also looking at textiles in a new light. Last year I struggled thinking about what I could make in textiles because it was difficult to make it 3D and something different and contemporary.
I've been using polypropylene and wire as structural bases then think materials such as stretchy plastics, elastic, fishing wire and slightly transparent cotton materials.









Sunday, 14 April 2013

Half Term part 2

Well On the side on doing work for my 'HAND TO HEART' project I've been trying to be neat and delicate with my work for better results, although it takes much longer the results are much better and hopefully when I get back to using the studios tomorrow I can have a go on the sewing machine(:

I used some transfer paper to copy my automatic drawings onto fabric, I used beads and thread to decorate and fill in caps and this is what I have so far(:

Me and my friend Catherine ( http://thatcraftypieceofwork.blogspot.co.uk/ )had an idea to make a facinator for my final piece. I'm excited to show my designs to my tutors and see what they think. I'm not 100% sure what my final piece will look like or how I'll make it so I'm going to have a busy 4 weeks ahead!


I've also being working on some designs for my facinator using Photoshop. I thought this would be a better way to get a design than using a collage method and the internet is full of beautiful imagery as well as some of my own photography I've taken in the past.

Friday, 29 March 2013

From Hand To Heart.

So far this project has been quite challenging, from taking something that's in my head and making it visual, forgetting what looks right and what looks pretty and just going along with my subconscious mind has been interesting to dip into. Down below are a few of the samples I've created this week, after Easter break(2 weeks) I will have 4 weeks to complete this project and a final piece.
In the holidays I'm going to start sketching ideas, collaging and being ready to get into the studios and make something amazing(: Talking with my tutors we came up with the concept of contrasting something real along side my work that's surreal and different.







Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Katie Essam

Really loving this woman's work, really enjoy looking at a creating flat stitch, it's hard to make it 3D though, I need to leave my comfort zone and branch out!  http://www.katie-essam.co.uk/

Want to learn free-hand machine embroidery?
I really love these too, so simple but interesting, quite organic too, I suppose they'd all be different.