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:

Knotting

Knotting is pretty much as it reads. It's tying material together and making a garment out of it. The interesting thing about knotting is that theres so many different types of knots, different matierals to tie, and different areas on the body to place the knots that you always will come out with a different design. I really like knotting. I think it looks really detailed and interesting.

Amaya Arzuaga

Burberry 2010

Chanel Clutch

Here Yohan Ku and Sandra Backlund knotted knit for their garments. I love these to pieces, they look amazing!



Johan Ku

Sandra Backlund

Layering

Layering is where you either layer garment over eachother ( to be all one garment) or you layer fabrics over eachother and sew to create one garment. This can often give a really cool mixture of patterns and textures, and often creates alot of  fullness in a garment.

Galliano used layering for fullness and a different range of colour and texture throughout his pieces.

galliano

Galliano

Karl Lagerfield for Chanel

Mark Fast

Balenciaga layers different materials over eachother to create different textures in one garment.

Balenciaga 2012

Balenciaga 2012

Balenciaga 2012

Boning

Boning is strips of steel or plastic. It is inserted into or sewed onto a garment to give the garment shape. It was originally used for corsets and bodests, but in the latest few years it has been used to give shape to more exravvagant garments.

Alexander McQueen

Galliano for Dior, 2009

Jean paul gaultier, 2009

Jean Paul Gaultier

Marchesa 2011

Mary katrantzou

Philip Treacy

Victoria Secret

Darts

The body has different measurements and shapes all over. e.g. A woman's body is small at the waist then large at the hips. For garments to fit the shape of the body perfectly darts are often required. Darts are folds sewn into fabric to give space in areas where space is needed. Here are two diagrams of where and how darts are used.

Darts are catagorised as to where they are placed on the body.

Standard 4 Darts: These are darts placed on the back of garmend. This is to tighten the garmend around the curve on a bodys back.

Arms Eye Darts: These are darts placed around the arms (shoulders, elbows, etc.). These are important as arms need movement so darts are often essential.

Gucci

Centre Front Darts: These darts do exactly what their called. They run along the centre of th body on the front of the garment.

Marchesa

Karl Lagerfield for Chanel 2012

H Darts: These are darts that on top of and underneath the waist. Their called 'H darts' as the resemble the letter H in a garment.

French darts:  This dart goes underneath the bust line, just above the waist. This is to give the chest more space.

Chanel 2011

Irregular Darts: These are darts that are placed in random, irregular parts of the body. They give various different shapes to garment. There darts for those who are a little bit more experimental!

Raf Simmons, Fall/winter 2012

Princess Seam: Ok, I'm not entirely sure what a princess seam is but I'll give it a go! I think a princess seam is a straight seam/dart that runs from under the shoulder to the waist. I think it's just for regular fitted tops, dresses, and jackets.

Roberto Cavailli, Spring/Summer 2012

Roberto Cavalli, Fall/ Winter 2012