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Joy Herman. Just look at the clean clarity of those lines . cxheck her out on |
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| Ingrid check her out on ingprinting.blogspot.co.uk I love how she achieves layers of colour .
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| I think I have managed to keep the original design aswell as letting the needle go its own way. |
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| Up close but badly photographed. Perhaps my next degree will be photography? |
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| Check me out I said the next area I needed to focus on was getting before and after photos so I could show you and myself how my work developed. These following images were taken from believe it or not, my reflection book, where I have kept a truthful account of my thoughts and feelings throughout this project. I knew where they were: under my desk at college or thrown into a bag, but as a result of cleaning out my bay at college, in preparation for photos of our work, I decided to go through them. I am so glad I did! it made me realise how much I have developed and grown in confidence. It is so easy to beat ourselves up that we often forget where we came from and how much we have grown. So Today I going to say out loud I am very proud of myself. |
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| This is the original drawwing or mark making. I sketched a section from a piece of jewellery without looking at the paper I was drawing onto. I have used this approach a number of times and find it works pretty well for converting into embroidery. I would rather allow my ideas to develop organically with media even a needle, rather than creating a beautiful drawing and converting it into stitch. Although this has its place at the moment this is where my designs have gone. |
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| This particular sketch was of a corset that I had taken a photo of at Bowes museum. Once agian I sketched the image by looking at the photo rather than the paper. I liked the image first time around but looking at it quite a few months after I like it more. The various thickness of lines is almost a design initself. Im sure I will come back to this. In fact I have a whole body of work I can use after I leave college. |
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| This is my latest embroidered design. The shoulder pieces were originally just going to be shoulder pieces but after pinning them to the mannequin I think I should develop them into a collar piece. Perhaps |
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| The title for this post refers (if you haven't noticed already) to more more professional looking blog as well as my images being the right way up. I have so many people to thank for this, Ingrid, Phillippa and Abbie , Julie, Robyn and Jess for helping me with photoshop. Im finally getting more confident, which I think shows as I have even found out all by myself that I can add a caption under an image rather than typing sentences, and finding them becoming one letter per line around an image once I publish the post. Secondaly I have also realised I can preview posts before I publish them. If this is what I am achieving in the last week I wonder what I will learn next week. |
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| I know this is a professional blog buy I am rather pleased with the outcome of the Dorothy costume, however I must confirm in terms of professional standards the seams are not finished off or even overlocked, some threads still need cutting and it really needs a good iron, but considering Dorothy has been to the land of Oz and back I think its held together pretty well. So any one out there who is a bit creative, likes the concept of 'make do and mend', recycling etc etc I hope I have inspired you. |
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| I think Ella makes a superb Dorothy. |
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| Needed to show the shoes once again. I'm still shocked they turned out the way they did. Red acrylic paint and glitter !!!! Come on girls next time you need a new pair of shoes head to the works, buy a tube of acrylic paint and a couple of tubes of glitter. and you will rock the dance floor. |
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| Thought I should add the remains of the two dresses that I cut up to make one. And no I wont be throwing this lot out, I'm sure I will use the collars, the skirt part the buttons and sleeves in some other project or costume. |
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| As it's World Book Day tomorrow, my daughter informed me she was finally going to dress up as a character, Dorothy from the wizard of Oz. I love making costumes up from nothing and as I am a hoarder I knew I would be able to rustle something up. Two old school dresses made into one, my newish white shirt and wait for it an old pair of black shoes. But didnt Dotothy have red sparkly, glittery shoes I hear you cry, look no further than these babies. |
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| I'm a bit gutted I didnt take a before picture . These are the straps, buckles and toe strap just to show you want they were like in their previous life. |
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| Here are a few of my photos of the concept shop 'Merci' in Paris. Once again something you need to see first hand, The displays are just incredible. |
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| there is something beautiful about these images. Technical very bad photos but for me the colour, texture, graphical |
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| I spent Sunday sorting my Paris photos into albums, from which I rotated properly so I can now post my images onto my blog allowing you to view them without having to bend over horizontally. |
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| The colours of the Leger up close were amazing. My photo does not do it justice. It is imperative to visit museums especially if an artist etc you admire, are inspired by etc is having an exhibition, books can never convey the true beauty of an artists work when you are stood in front of it. |
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The dome window at Galleries Lafayette . You have to go there to really really see the beauty. |
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| love the colour |
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| Can't believe I am actually writing another post in the same week, but this is my new goal! keeping my blog updated. But enough talking heres some of my inspirational memories of Paris. I cant remember the name of the shop but the olive green and gold were so beautiful I knew I would use this either as a concept or a colour scheme in the future. |
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| I love Paris !!!!!! I love everything about it, well not the dog dirt and litter, although the later does have many interesting things amongst as I found out, when I kept picking up rusty washers, paper french flags, springs and two Capital letter E's which are now placed nicely on my Daughter's book cupboards as they represent her first and surname. But what else do I love and get inspired by Paris? |
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| First of all the modern art museum or in french Musee D'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ Arc. The Raoul Duffy paintings were to die for, I was first introduced to Dufy as a young sixteen -seventeen year old, when I first began Art college in the middle1980s, and finally there I was standing in front of his work. I was pretty speechless. Good things do come to those who wait. I apologise for this being upside down I still have not figured out how to turn the picture around. |
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| The paintings were around an arch shaped room, from floor to ceiling, Absolutely br  eathtaking. I love this image on the right the patten behind the dripping painted words evokes a sense of political unease, a dual world where of rich and poor. I guess these are the aspects of life I find most interesting, that there are always two sides to everything. I guess that is why it is important for my work to have a concept that includes both historical and contemporary elements. |
They may not look like anything special but the hat, which is a sequined beret style was just left amongst some leaves on the floor . The sequins will come in very, very useful. The nuts and washers are rusted so for me immediately tell a story, or enable me to conjure up a story. 
