Fashion!!!!!

Okay I haven't updated ye on my print elective yet but I wanted to start my fashion one! I started fashion on monday and decided to base my project on umbrellas! They are an everyday product with extraordinary drawing capabilities! using one umbrella I got loads of analytical drawings as the shape of the umbrella changed every time you opened it another inch or changed the direction you looked at it! Following some research I also found some crazy umbrellas of different shapes and sizes! I'll put some of them up on this for ye to see! On Tuesday we had some mannequin time with Pamela and a colour workshop with Liz! The mannquin time was brilliant I got to see how a flat pattern piece could totally transform when moulded and placed on the mannequin in different ways! The colour workshop was loads of fun too! Colour stories are really fun to make while also being beneficial to the design process! Today we are doing a drawing workshop with Phillipa, we are learning how to draw the important curves and creases in fabric through line drawing and different materials to make our sketchbook drawings more realistic and interesting. After lunch we are photocopying and collaging shapes and colours onto the drawings we did earlier! It should be fun! Loving fashion, Nicole
P.S I'm only putting up a few of the mannequin pictures, there's far too many it'd fill up the internet!:-P!

again again again and again!

Ok well we're on our Christmas break now but I still hope to do a little bit of college work if I can! As I said last week I have the photos of my work all ready to go up so I'll upload them now! Sorry if it takes up piles of space on the dashboard! Update ye again soon!

again again!

Hey well I am still going with the project! I'm having fun with it! This week I did a collage of Connemara and a line drawing and some prints with it that I can compare and contrast to the city ones. This is really interesting as the shapes, colour and textures in each are completely different! I played around with photoshop too and got some cool results of country scenes so i might do the same to city scenes and see what happens! One of my collages didnt join up perfectly but I like it like that so I think I will paint in between and on the photos so the piece is half imaginary! I also need to work with more 3D and texture pieces and also more analytical drawing so that's what I hope to move on with this week! I'm thinking of making city shapes out of country textures and country images out of city textures! I think this could be really interesting! I also hope to have pictures up on this next week of everything I've done so far! Type soon!

Another update!!

Howdy! Well I'm loving my new project idea and the way it's going! Today I did around 79 million prints from 5 woodcuts I did from the collage. The way every picture turns out different amazed me and I liked that so I think I'm going to keep comparing things to eachother! For example I did drawings of the same sketch from two different directions and it looks completely different one of them makes the street look really tall and daunting whil the other taken from above makes the street lok small and insignificant! It's class! I've done a college of panoramic views of the country now too and hope to do loads with that! While I also aim to tak panoramic views of seascape and of the lovely Connemara mountains (That one should be really nice I hope the weather is nice to see the cool colours!). A really cool idea just popped into my head there too to do a picture looking at the landscape views but painting it in the complete opposite side of the colour wheel! That could be a disaster or really cool so I think I'll try it! Talk soon!!!! Nicole!

Follow on 4 for The Urban Environment

Okay, well I had my review and feedback and I thinkn everybody including me knows now that I despise maps and cartography!
The only piece that was still interesting me was the panoramic collage of photos I took from the top of riverpoint offices. I am now focusing on these collages and using a viewfinder to focus in on certain parts of it and I am doing tonal excersizes, prints and line drawings of the sections at the moment but I hope to move on and do a painting, a multimedia piece and 3-D piece!
I hope this direction of the project will work out for me!

Follow on again!

Well I did some more texture maps in different ways of the same route I had done before but because of the stupid rain I couldn't get any more rubbings done...BRING ON THE SUN! So I started doing different maps to do with my memories of holidays! I did my trip to Scotland on a ferry and all of the places I have flown! I drew the outline of a map of Ireland too and I think I might link the places that mean something to me but I'm not sure yet! I finished the flip book too, it's cool but so big it doesnt flip well! I am still planning on doing my riverpoint collage I just havent gotten around to it yet! Hopefully this week I will! I'm half thinking of doing something in feltmaking too because making it in the workshop was so fun! I'm kind of a bit stuck at the moment and I might try escape from maps for a while, but I'll see where it brings me anyway!

Oh and I know I havent any pictures up yet but I will this week some time I promise!
Bubye for now!