Observational Drawings



These are some observational drawings I did over the weekend.

 

 



Le Ballon Rouge

For college I had to create a photo shoot inspired by the French film "Le Ballon Rouge". The film is about a boy who finds a red balloon which forms a life force. It's about the friendship between the boy and the balloon. I based my photo shoot on red wellies and how a girl finds and befriends them, because I liked that in the film a person became friends with an object which is strange.

Photo Shoot for college

As part of the styling unit we did a photo shoot based on a word the tutor gave us. We had to work in pairs and I was paired with Georgia. Our word was happy. For inspiration for our photo shoot we looked at Katy Perry's California Gurls Music Video because we thought the theme of the video was happy and the colours used were ideal for our theme.

I made a version of Katy Perry's Candy Land dress for Georgia to wear, who was going to be the model in the photos. My biggest worry was that it wasn't going to fit her because I had to guess the size. Fortunately, it did fit her. I had to make it in a short period of time so I couldn't attach everything properly. This meant throughout the day we were taking the photo, things kept falling off the dress. We are still finding bits of the dress in the classroom.

I made the dress out of one of my sister's old dresses and attached a piece of white material to it. I then found some felt in my house and used that to make the ice cream and doughnut. My dog kept running off with these. Apparently he found it fun to try and chew the attachments for the dress. I did manage to make the dress in about two days without any of it being destroyed.

 I was unable to post the image from the photo shoot because their to big to put on the blog. 

Shopping In Manchester

When my sister came home for the week, I went shopping with her to Manchester. We spent so much in the shops that we couldn't afford to have lunch out, like we planned. When we got home we did a mini photoshoot with the clothes we bought. This of course was my sister's idea.

Manchester- gallery of cosume

A few weeks ago I visited the Manchester- Gallery of Costume. While there I collected primary research for my historical unit and carried out some more oberservational drawings. Some of the displays there were incredible, especially the dresses that were made out of paper.

My observational drawings

Stylists

Katie Grand, top
Grace Coddington, bottom left
Katie Shillingford, bottom right

Finished everything for the historical and drawing unit which I got a merit and a distinction for. I am so happy about my results.

 I started  a new unit which means more work to do. I do think this unit will be better than the last because I now know what to do. It's a styling unit. I am looking forward to creating the final outcome which is where I take a historical painting and recreate it on a model, using whatever I can find. This unit is mostly looking at fashion stories; what a fashion image is trying to say. I find looking at the meaning behind the images makes you understand why the artist, stylist or photographer has created the image.

The first part of the unit involves researching into other stylists' work. These stylists include Kate Grand, Grace Coddington, Camille Bidault Waddington, Kate Phelan , Katie Shillingford and Robbie Spencer. There are some examples of their work at the top of the page.