Live dress

Todays work, Dress edits of progression on my current project!  Just in the finish stages for the fashion show and exhibition next week. Changed hues and adapted images with layering and filters.

Live project vol 2

Adaptations of work from today, finally nearing the end of my project. Printed fabric from my current dress, using double exposure to create unique and innovative alterations to diverse colour and texture, also images from my process are intwined.

Tomb of kings

During my trip to Cyprus,  I stumbled on an add for the tomb of kings! An excavated tombs site for the rich, some of stones have been dated back to about  4 BC. Over time the rocks have created different shapes and textures. However the tombs have never actually had any kings in them but have had pathotic aristocrats dating back to 3 AD, and the site was pretty cool! Here are some edits using double exposure tool, and different contrasts and hue exaggerations.

Pixlr vol 3 ▲▲ cyprus ▲▲

Some adaptations of photos I have taken from around the pool in a villa in Cyprus. By using contrast, double exposure and blend, I can create texture and pattern to devolp ideas to later adapt on to cad to recreate my edited photos that I will transfer using dyes and prints.

Live project edits

Using fabric and paper samples and a blend of secondary research of african and south american prints on pintrest I have  intwined the images together to exaggerate and impose my own innovative ideas to create colour and print samples to help elaborate my work further a push it into future devolpmental stages. Main tools used here are double exposure, blend, contrast,  saturation and vibrance.

Pixlr vol 2 ▲▲

On the go editing is one of my favourite things to do now!  From sketch book pages to samples, recently for my live project I have loosely turned my pages into illustration boards/mood boards, being able to elevate colour, texture and images. These boards are based around African and south american culture and textiles,  taking images from pintrest and vogeu. By using colour faded shapes and double exposure I can add extra detail to my images to create a more in depth aesthetic.  how ever the quality isn't great but allows me to identify what aspects of my work need focus.

Live Project

Mood board with adjusted hue and saturation 

Recently we have been working with the silk mill to create garments for their 200th anniversary! we each had to design 3 outfits and a show stopper and then they would pick the ones that fit the brief the most. After we got put into groups and and we had to create a colour scheme and theme to produce the three outfits, Me, Liz and Sam choose pink, blue and orange.. with a few other tones thrown in and a tribal theme (African and south American mix). Since my specialities is print i decided to get inspired by culture and art, contemporary and traditional, and come up with some wacky prints that really capture the colours of Africa and south America. We are still currently in the process of making these dress, I hope it all goes to plan...

sample print under illustration.

I have been experimenting with photo shop and layering illustrations. this was actually only by accident since the scanner wasn't big enough to fit the whole image on, i had to do it in sections. which then when put on to the canvas made an exaggerated shadow effect, allowing me to manipulate a contort her frame. I later adjusted the hue and colour balance, whilst giving a vibrant aesthetic, and then later on applying a frame!

A Vibe Called Yes

For my business project we were asked to come up with our own brand and create a photo shot based around it. My brand is called 'A Vibe Called Yes' a funky soundsytem and clothes rand of individual, second and and vintage clothes (some of which are up cycled). The overall theme is festivals, feeling free and not having a care in the world, really expressing yourself. The style is a mix of eras from the 60s to 2000s, ethnically based and looking into genres such as Funk/Soul/Reggae/Hip Hop/Jungle/Garage. I wanted my brand to be as wacky and crazy as I am, using a range of different prints, materials, shapes and colour to create a contemporary nostalgic prospect.

For the location i found a quite place in Winchester called The Antiques Market, which in the downstairs there were loads of bendy corridors and vintage looking furniture and knacks. I brought a range of props, one including a chazlounge, a graffiti canvas and other various works of urban art (Although you cant see any since some pictures are the right format for blogger). I also provided several different outfit changes for each model, ranging from vintage sports wear to sparkly tops and skirts to keep the urban alternative theme of my brand. Theo took the photos and they look amazing! (also editing was down to him to).

Special thanks to Photography: Theo Williams, Make Up: Helen Anderson, Models: Lily Jenkins and JJ Oakley!

http://www.theowilliams.co.uk/#1

An Impressionist Behaviour

During a project in print we were asked to look at plants/nature and create our own prints based around a trend and our own inspiration. I was intrigued by the Impressive bloom and artistically smudged, which fit my style very well because of my obstructive and 'disorganized' tones. My inspiration was based around Henry Rousseau, and his post impressionist styles around the jungle and nature (this also fits in very well with an upcoming trend SS15 for impressionist art) Other inspirations were plant cells and the molecular and mathematical structures of nature. One for example is symmetry which is in everything, by using a method that I'm sure we've all done as kids, by folding paper\fabric in half and adding paints to one side and flattening it. this creates an interesting smudge effect. 

Mood board about styles and ideas

here are a few of my finalised samples, I wanted to create an urban undertone of a 'concrete jungle' with abstract lines and dimensions.  If i would have had more time i would have explored different dying techniques such as low immersion dying and discharge dying to explore how fabric reacts to different dyes and process. 

Photoshopped a sample with exaggeration on the hue and saturation

Edited using threshold tool

Pixlr

Since I dont have photoshop at home I find it hard to edit samples and images with out it taking time out of my technical work. I have found a free app on my phone that allows my to edit photos in a similar way to photoshop. The app is Pixlr and lets me edit on the move, when ever where ever. By taking photos of samples I can adjust the brightness and contrast to develop a mix of different exposures. I can edit hue and saturation to explore colours, changes and similarities.  Also I am able to crop, rotate and double expose (if I feel like merging samples together)! A tip on ccreating these for your self.  By using a clean screen and fiber reactive procisoin mx Dyes, I placed different colour splodges Around The top base And dragged them tthrough using a squeegee. Be careful when mixing colours, they may change tones, keep opposite colours away as the outcome might not be expected!  For the overlay use acid dye, 18g of bright magenta and 10g of bright pink, add 100 ml of vinegar.   Put into a souce pan and allow to cook for 40 minutes to an hour.  After scrunch up clear silk viscose into a ball in the palm of your hand and slightly dip into pan (make sure you don't cover the whole fabric in dye as you wont get an acid wash style pattern) after leave to dry for a few hours and wash out! 

Its A Thrif Ting

final edit of Laure (Model) By Theo Williams

Behind the scene action shot

The East End Thrift Store, the holy grail of vintage and second hand clothes (that are super super cheap) !! during a weekend in London with Theo we decide to take a visit to their £1 sale to find some hidden treasure for a test shooter we were going to do the next day. Once we got to White chapel (East end) we searched for the secret warehouse among the urban streets, and found a door with funky bass blaring out. Inside was mountains of clothes piled on the floor, the theme was rummage. after a few hours of browsing we finally payed for our array of garments from coats to hats and skirts to trousers. In the end we manged to bag 16 different items.. although we only used 3.

Phone editor on pixlr of photo of camera screen

Long tan leather trench coat

We shot in oval, just outside Theo's sister house in several different locations.  I chose a white dress with exaggerated shoulders and neck to create a retro elegance with tones of masculinity to maintain power and strength (this is upheld by the leather trench coat) In the end the look ended up portraying a 1940s army style with a mix of chic high fashion for the era, which I thoroughly enjoyed styling since the whole outfit came to £3! A prime example that shows you don't have to have money to be creative.

for more from Theo visit his website http://www.theowilliams.co.uk/#1

      

Toile De Jour

For our technical we were allowed to create our own print based around the classic Toile De Jour. Since this design was popular during the 19th century i wanted to be influenced by the era, through out my research of historical and politcal events I stumble across the battle of plassey. A quick sum up is The East end company were trying to make an extension through out India and the nawab of Bengal didn't really like his new fortifications he was intending to build, so Robert Clive (Major General) bribed Mir Jafar, the commander in chief of the nawab's army, and attacked Calcutta (The Black Hole) where he tortured and captivated dozens of Europeans, the battle then took place on 23 June 1757.

 

Since I as also doing a project in weave about Hinduism, I liked the two ideas to keep up with a future trend forecast for SS 16/15 Tropical Psychedelic. By Adding trippy art into the heinous crimes creates a perfect description of what contemporary war is all about, only seeing yourself as the 'all knowing', and creating aesthetically presumptions that the opposition are crazy pigments of what your imagination can only conger up.