After working on the mannequin we had to move on to our sketch books and begin to change the scale and position of the new shapes we had created.

For this project we have to continue our contextual research. One of my favorite designers is Alexander McQueen. I love the way he uses structure and shape to change the silhouette. His work ties into the kind of research we are doing for this project.

Fashion!!!

For our first year 2 week project we were given a brief based on shape. We had to pick a theme based on a selection of words and use that as our starting point for pulling shapes. For my theme I choose to use car engines. These are some of the drawings I done from my research material.

After doing about 10 of these drawings I began to pull different shapes from them. We then had to pick 2 shapes to work with on the mannequin.

These are the shapes I chose to work with.

After cutting the shapes out in several different sizes we worked with the on them mannequin. bending and folding them to create new shapes and pinning them to different parts of the body, to explore all the possible ways the shapes could work. 

These are some of the different possibilities I created using my shapes

I've continued to work with large scale paintings of the shadows. I started using different colours and parts of the clocks.

I think the monochrome painting are really effective. I created them by painting around enlarged cutouts of photographs I took.

This is a larger version of the cutout i used to create the paintings. I think these make interesting pieces by themselves, they create interesting shapes.

While looking at the shadows created by the clocks I decided to do a series of large abstract paintings of the shadows cast. To do these paintings I used a torch to project the shadows onto to a wall. then I used paint, similar to the colours that the shadows appeared in the photos i had taken, to paint either the shadows cast of the negative space around the shadows.

I really like the way these paintings turned out. I am going to continue working like this but looking at different sections of the clock and using different colours.

While researching and studying my clocks I made a series of videos of the clocks moving. This is the finished product of those videos.

I have decided to look at the shadows that are cause by the clocks I have been using a source material for this project.

I really like the intricate nature of the shadows. I think the way the parts of the clock have been broken down into basic shapes is really interesting and that it almost becomes difficult to figure out what you are looking at. I also like the colours that the shadows appear in these photos. They seem to be more blue then grey. I am going to project cutouts of these photos and of the clocks themselves onto a wall and do a series of large scale paintings to try and make these images even more abstract. 

After swapping the wire for more plastic i decided to use this cog as a mold for a series of plaster cogs as they would be stronger and i could make several identical ones.

While most of the cogs didn't turn out as I had hoped I think they are still really interesting as objects to look at. I like the broken down nature of them. I think they could make an interesting sculptural piece. The reason the cogs didn't work out properly was because the plaster bandage  used was already gone off and didn't set properly.

While I was taking pictures of the clocks that I have been using as source material I noticed that they cast some really interesting shadows.

I think looking at the shadows and parts of the clock in more detail could be an interesting way forward in this project..