Natural Beauty

N A T U R E 

This section of my blog was based on a natural theme. Below is one of the sketches from my primary research.

To the left hand side is my first final piece I created from this project. This dress was made in two halves. Firstly I made the corset using felt and inserted an open ended zip into the side. Following this I then needle felted an abstract design of colours used throughout my project which was influenced by artists such as Claude Monet and his "Water Lilies" and Gregory Christeas abstract pieces such as "Masterpiece". I also looked at Chuck Close's work which is mostly based on a grid as an underlying basis for the representation of an image. He uses process and collaboration which I used to influence this design. Next, I made the skirt by using two layers, the top of netting, and adding bows and gathers to add volume.





My second final piece was taken from the same project and so had been made using all the same research but looked at from a different perspective. I designed my rug using mostly my primary research looking at the natural curves and shapes of trees in different lights. I then went on to look at work from artists such as Peter Doig as the colour combinations of his work had matched my earlier research. His image of a sunset behind trees, then inspired me to further refine my ideas and end up with this finished piece.