3 word

Gerhard Richter, Journey and Drape

I decided to pick the word JOURNEY because there is so much I can write about and do that revolves around Journey. Journey from home to university, university to home or journey through generation, journey through life, journey through experience but I decided to look at Journey through colour, how does colour effect an individual through feelings, life, emotions or generation.
I started of by doing an interpretation of Gerhard's Richter piece by using his style to create an illusion through colour that reflects on my 3 words. I used acyrlic paint and
my design developments combined into one to create a print that I played around with on the stand and created designs out of my print.

I experimented with my print on the stand creating different styles and layouts, draping and seeing what would work and what wouldn't look good. Trying different shapes and overlaying fabric to get a sense of illusion and texture. 

I used my own print to create a number of designs that represented Journey and Colour. I focused on shape and proportion showing different emotions and moods throughout my designs. 

 

I visited The Saatchi Gallery and was inspired by Jelena Bulajic art piece, their was so much detail that looked so real and the texture that was created made me think about the journey through life and how I could use this within my design collages. 

I went to a fabric company and got materials that I knew would relate well to my designs that I created on Photoshop. I thought about colour and texture as much as I thought about layout and structure. The reason why I used Jelena Bulajic work as the head on my work was because it shows you how much generation and people change and this all relates to colour therefore this relates to journey .

I decided to create a top out of calico to experiment and see if I would be happy with creating the same structure on my print fabric. Thinking about my pattern pieces, stitches that I done on my garment and structure that was created. This gave me the chance to experiment with calico to create my final calico piece. 

I decided to relate my final piece to the original print I created and was inspired by Gerhard Richter style of painting, I wanted to capture the moments of journey through colour and by looking at aspects that motivated me to create designs that related to my 3 word project. I focused on colour and structure to show journey, I didn't want it to be obvious but I wanted the viewer to have a sense of a journey when they look at my final 10 line up.

Shapes (holiday project)

Holiday Project: 

During the Christmas Holidays I decided to create my own holiday work, to keep myself engaged and occupied with new research and ideas. I decided to relate everything in regards to shape and form as thats something I didn't get to do during my projects on my foundation course.

I started of by doing a mood board and adding a layer of acetate on top of my research to draw on and to write quick notes on.  I started to do lots of design Developments that I connected to shapes and form and started to work around my idea.

I worked on the stand to show my development and my ideas, I used fabric to create the bodice, cut  table mats to create detail on the neck or on the bottom, I used paper to create shapes and zips to create an illusion of style. I took many pictures and worked around different developments on the stand until i got comfortable to work and express my passion and knowledge.

I started to design and create weird and odd shapes throughout my illustrations and work. I wanted to create a sense of style and attitude that has not been expressed before and also trying different colours and layouts that I thought worked. 

My final piece was based around constructive and block designs, thinking about colours and what colours would suit best beside each other. I did not want to do a final line up as I thought to express my knowledge of form and shape is to bring it out on my page so you can see what my aim was. 

Personality Project

Personality Project:

For the Personality Project I brought objects in that meant a lot to me such as Islamic Praying mat, Music Book, Child hood Toy, Award from High School and my mini Iron.

From these 5 objects that is very personal to me I had to cut it down to my top two and revolve my work around it, so I decided to choose my Praying mat and Music book. I started of by doing mood boards and showing why these two objects meant a lot to me, I made it personal by adding childhood photos and done quick design developments that would help others see my work the way I see it.

I started placing acetate on the top of my childhood photo and started writing why it is an important image to me and why for example the arms and the way I was placed or sat on the mat is important for a muslim girl, why my hair needs to be covered and why I need to wear baggy clothes.

I wrote quotes in Arabic that has a lot of meanings and truth towards it and why muslims believe that its important to have a clean and true heart, this is also by praying. I wanted to revolve my project around this because their is not a lot of personal beliefs shown through fashion.

I designed a collection that related to my object,praying mat and Islamically I designed covered garments to respect the religion but also show my interpertations of my personal object, I added fabric swatches and also showed my knowledge of colour and texture.

My second personal object was my Music Book this was because I have a real connection with music as this is something I engaged with from a young age.  By Playing the Violin for 7 years of my life, I learnt to accept the warmth and passion music brought for me. 

I decided to make my designs more conceptual and crazy, in terms of my illustrations and designs. I connected it to my object and worked around with it in terms of colour and style. I made sure that each detail had some sort of style with it .