Showing posts with label colour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label colour. Show all posts
Research: B
Analysis: B
Subject Knowledge: B
Experimentation: B
Technical Competence: B
Communication and Presentation: B
Personal and Professional Development: B
Collaborative and/or Independent Professional Working: C
‘Clearly presented work. You have worked intelligently and well at every stage of this project and consequently have produced a large body of work. Very good experimentation and you quickly personalised your response to the project. Confident and lively exploration of colour. Interesting use of the folding and pleating, in fact you have many ideas which you could have developed. You have worked on your toils and used your print in conjunction with other fabrics, so a lot of thought went into that. A lively body of work’
After designing a simple, repeat pattern, I decided that it would be better to have a more spontaneous pattern which included various size spots overlapping each other, as this best represented the kaleidoscope inspired research.
Regarding colour, we narrowed it down to the contrasting colours of blue and orange. The top I designed was going to be heavily orange whilst the woven skirt seas heavily blue with subtle hints or orange.
The fabric I used was a polyester silk-impression that was printed onto, with polyester chiffon sleeves and a polyester satin. Ideally, I would have liked to use actual silks and satins rather than polyester based ones, but due to costing, I had to use polyester.
The top fastens at the back of the neck with hook and eyes and the back of the peplum fastens with a zip.
Unit 3 has started with a project based on spots and dots.
After playing around with the basic principal of spots and dots, in the simplest form, I then developed this forward to look at mould as a specific form of spot: it provides shape, colour and texture. Unfortunately, although this produced some interesting work, ultimately led to a dead end.
Following this, I moved on to look at a kaleidoscope and based my research on images taken through the kaleidoscope lens, which provided some fascinating results.
I was really looking forward to the stitch workshop because it is the area I thought I’d choose to specialise as it suits the way i’ve always worked in the past: I like to explore techniques, exploit the use of a material and use a variety of ‘unusual’ materials. However, once I started, I found that I wasn’t enjoying it very much. I think this could be because I have done it so much before. I knew how to use a sewing machine, dissolvable fabric, bondaweb, etc. And therefore, I didn’t find it exciting or fascinating. Whereas with the other specialisms, they were new to me, especially weave! Even print, I have done that before but not digital and not the method of screen printing using stencils and making our own dyes, so I still found it fascinating. But that just didn’t happen with stitch: I think i’ve just done it too much before.
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