Waist coast front

This is my final piece from the tattoo brief that I was given. This shows how the waist coat fits on a body and what it would look like if worn by someone.

Waist coat detail

This picture shows that I have used the techniques of quilting, lino print, free stitch and beading. It also shows what effect the techniques have and how well the work together.

Final waist coat fashion illustration

After drawing lots of very different designs I finally decided which techniques I was going to use and how I was going to us them.

Waist coat fashion illustration

This is some of my first fashion illustrations when I was thinking about what techniques and processes I wanted to use on my waist coat. I feel that I had an idea of what I was going to do.

Wodded dyed silk with lino print and free stitch embroidery

This is one of the best samples to show using lots of different types of techniques. First I dyed the piece of silk fabric and left to dry before lino printing. Once I had lino printed the fabric I pinned the wodding to the fabric and started free stitching around the flowers and in the middle. This gives the flowers a 3D effect.

Screen print on Shbori fabric

Before I could do anything with this sample I had to design the pattern. Once I had chosen which design I was going to screen print onto the Shabori fabric, I folded a piece of Shabori fabric and dyed it. I then transferred the design onto a screen. Once the Shabori fabric was dry I could then screen print the design on to the dyed fabric.

Tie dye and layered lino print

This is my best example of using different techniques together at the same time and on the same sample. I first tie dyed the silk fabric to makes sections. I then mixed the dyes I needed and then started printing onto the fabric and layered them.

Dyed fabric and lino print

I feel that this is one of my strongest samples from the tattoo brief. I started off by tie dying the white silk fabric for the background. I then engraved my flower design into the lino and left the parts that I wanted to print onto the fabric. I mixed the dyes and started printing in a pattern with different colours. To finish the piece of work I hand embroidered around the big flowers.

Paper dress inspired by The Paper Cut exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery

To make this paper dress we were in teams. I feel working in a team helped widen the ideas and techniques that can be used on the dress. We all did are bit and helped each other when we were struggling. We used techniques such as Sellotape prints, paper mache and using metal wire to make shapes.

Layered life drawings

To create this montague of life drawings, I first drew five drawings on a plain white piece of paper. I then drew three more separate life drawings on three separate pieces of tracing paper. I finally carefully placed each piece of tracing paper on top of the plain paper with the five original drawings. The only media I used for these drawings was pencil because pencil is an easy media to use to make dark sections and light strokes.

Life drawings

These are a selection of my life drawings which were each 10 minutes long. I feel that these are some of my best life drawings for an example of quick drawings.

Stencil and screen print

To make this design I first had to cut out several templates for each colour and each pattern. I then had to mix the special dyes that are used for screen printing. Then I printed the background on the material. Finally I used the stencils to add the flowers on top of the background once it had dried.

Mixed media textile piece inspired by Kim Thattichai

To make this piece if art work I had to use many different types of media such as newspaper, embroidery thread, coloured dyes and Angelina. For the base I glued strips of different coloured newspaper together on a sheet of interface. Then I used bonderweb to stick the different coloured threads to the newspaper and finally ironed the Angelina on top of everything to bond everything together.

Bisha Misty inspired embroidery

I was inspired by Bisha Mistys work because she uses a mixture of sections that are filled in which gives the design bold lines. I decided to sow a simple design because some of Bisha's work is very simple and not very busy. I like how the stitching gives the piece of work a 3D effect and gives it some texture.

Research page

This is one of my research pages on a Henna artist that doesn't only design the traditional designs on the skin but also on nontraditional objects such as candles and glass vases. I like the way that she uses traditional designs but in a more modern way.

2nd hand drawing page

Within the tattoo brief that I was given I had to do a selection of 1st hand and 2nd hand drawings. For the tattoo brief I chose to research Henna. I like the way that Henna designs are floral and some what plain. These drawings are from original designs of Henna from traditional to more modern.