12th Project

This project was an extension from City Threads, I chose the Origami option as I have never tried anything like this and wanted to see my drawings on actual objetcs. To start myself off on this project I chose my Manchester Christmas market images, which just so happened to be of garlic, I bought a whole garlic and placed it in my studio space. From this I used stick, ink, bleech and water colours to create a wide range of differenent drawings of the same garlic. From this I photocpoied my drawings to make the paper in which I created the Origami, I chose on quite delicate Origami pieces to make to compliment the intricate and delicate textures of my drawings. I went a little Origami crazy and made rather a lot so I made them into hanging Garlands using invisable thread, which again adds to the delicate theme.

City Threads

The second project within Textiles and Fashion was called City Threads, to start us off on this project we took sequences of images around Manchester. My images ranged from the sun setting over Manchester to the stalls at Manchester Christmas Markets.

From this I started to really investiagate my intital research, for this I took the images and drew in a variety of different methods. Such as linear, pixalated and monochromatic, I also used a variety of mediums such as acrylic, pastels, fine liners and bleech.

The most enjoyable method of drawing for me was using acrylic paints to create a pixalated effect, this was the method I chose to develop further. In my development I chose the sunset sequence to expand upon so I experimented with dying white paper and how to create dots from the paper.

 

I decided on the hole punched dots as I thought they created a more pixalated effect than the ripped pieces. From this I made a metre long strip based on the sunset images from hole punches.

Hybrid

Hybrid was the first project I did in my chosen specailist area: Textiles and Fashion. We had to collect a Men's suit jacket, and two shirts from a chosen cahrity shop. Once back at uni we were told to get into pairs and take photographs of the bought garments on your partner, however the brief was to stlye them as though you were an alien and didn't know how to wear them.

We then had to deconstruct the garments to see what kind of material and textures we had to work with. The idea of the project was to reconstruct the decinstruceted into another wearable. As my interests steer towards textiles I was interested in the materials themselves as oppsed to garments so I cut up the shirts into strips and cut slits into square pieces of the jacket, I then wove the strips into the jacket. As the final outcome had to be wearable I used the buttons from the shirts and jacket to create woven cuffs.

Lastly I styled the cuffs on models and edited them using Photoshop.