My final neck piece!

My next step..

I choose this shape for my final design. I choose a simple shape as I thought my design would be very textured.

I looked at two matierals in my sculpture ( Chicken wire and torn wadding). I thought the looked tacky covered in red paint. I decided to spray paint both a skin colour. I stretched the wadding over the chicken wire and sewed it. Then I tore it in different places.

I thought laytex really resembled skin. I wanted to layer this over the wadding, stretching and ripping the laytex too. I did a few swatches of laytex.


I applied it thickly, inserted pins in to it and then took them out when dry. I then scraped this swatch of laytex after.

I also did a swatch where I placed knifes, forks, needles etc.. into the laytex and left them in it when dry.

For my final garment I layered laytex over cling film so it would crinkle and curl when dry and taken off. I placed pins, forks, knifes, etc. in the laytex and peeled them out once dry. Then I stretched the laytex over the chicken wire and wadding and sewed it.

I then Embroidered a red stitch around the edges of the garment. I felt red needed to be added into the piece to lift it. I also attached red ribbon to the sides of the garment so it would tie to fit the body. I then attched the two pieces and placed them on the body.

Croquis

I took shapes from the manican designs I created and placed them on croquis in different ways.

I picked two of these shapes to focus on! Then I cut them out of paper in different scales and placed them on the manican to create different designs!

Pulling Shapes

From the pictures I took of my sculpures I did analitical drawings and I began pulling shapes.

New Project!!

We thought of every word possible to do with the five senses (touch, taste, sound, sight, smell). From these words we each picked five random words. My words were gritty, scratching, smokey, movement and earthy. I cut my list down to three words (gritty, scratching, smokey). I  made up verbs to match these three words. I researched artists, garmends, and images for them.

Gritty:

Smokey:

Scratching:

Sculpture number 2!

I'm nearly finished my first sculpture so I decided to make another one. I'm making a cast of my hands made from wax. I'm then going to rip the wax and have blood and stuff pouring out of it. First I had to place my hands in gooey liquid dentists use for making moulds. After it dried I took my hands out and my mould was made. I then poured wax into the mould.

Sculpture

We were told to make a sculpture representing our mood bored and theme. I decided to go with my mood bored 'scratching'.  Alexandre Farto is the artist I picked for scratching. He's a graffiti artist who scratches pictures into walls of buildings revealing the inner layer of a building. For part of my sculpture I created a hand out of objects that scratch things ( forks, knives, nails, earrings, etc.). I made the shape out of chicken wire. wrapped mascan tape around it. Then I glued the objects to it and spray painted it a skin colour.

I wanted to mimic Alexandre Farto's methods. I made a wall. The top layer to represent skin, and the bottom layer to represent blood. I placed the hand against the wall and scratched into it so it looks like the hand has scratched the wall apart. For my skin layer, I put plaster paris over chicken wire, tore and scratched it apart, and then spray painted it a skin colour.

For my bloody layer of skin I painted bubble wrap and stretched wadding red. I stuck them together with glue. I then placed the skin layer on top of the blood layer using glue and tape.






I glued fake nails to the hand. I painted blood dripping down it in certain areas, and stuck painted wadding to the parts which looked like torn skin.

mood boreds

These are my mood bored and final swatches for my three words. 1) Gritty:

My swatch is finger knitting over heshin. On top of that is a layer of glued and laytexed sugar and pebbles.

2) Smokey:

My swatch is melted and burned foam, then twisted on top of burned and twisted stips of blacksacks. My artist photoshops pictures of smoke into amazing shapes. I took my images and then photoshopped them.

3)Scratching: I tore and scratched my bored. I took photos of my hands covered in red paint and then photoshopped them and ripped them. My swatch is torn fabric layered over painted bubble wrap and wadding. Christian Louxcrois was the designer I choose. I found his piece matched my mood bored very well. My artist, Alexandre Farto is a graffiti artist that scratches images into public buildings.

   

Swatches

From this research we did swatches. I also incorporated the action words I came up with into my swatches.

scratching:

Smokey:



















Gritty: