Thursday, 25 October 2012


                                     Body Architecture design

Close up of my design
 
For the flower part i am going to make different sized "fans" out
of paper and attaching them all together to do this i need to make straight
indents every 2cm away from eachother and fold back to front
 
For my leaf i am going to make the basic shape out of card and then
use a technique called embossing to indents the stem to give it a better effect

 
Labelled design
 
To make my piece i will make a template around my arm to connect all of my pieces together. Then i will hot glue gun my flowers and leafs onto the template.

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

Soap Carving

        Soap Carving

 
 
 
 

This is my soap carving. This soap carving is of to different types of leaves.
I choose to do leaves for my soap carving because I like the leaf roots and I think
their roots have a nice patteren and texture. I also chose to do leaves because it really
connects to my theme of natural forms as a leaf is a natural form




I choose to do a shape like this because it really shows alot of skills for
example carving, indenting and smoothing down but if I just left my carving
as the shape of the bar of soap then I wouldn't have shown as many skills as i have shown
by doing this soap carving.
 
 

Experimenting with the soap really helped me to make my final piece because before this
I had never carved soap before or used the tools. If I hadn't of experimented first
my final piece wouldnt have turned out how it looks now.



Tuesday, 2 October 2012

My recycled design


So far i have had a few ideas of what my recycled head piece could
look like. My idea i would like to carry on with developing
is my idea to make a head piece out of straws,bottle tops and plastic bags.
I have drawn a rough labelled sketch to show you what this would look like
 
 
 
Here are some of the materials i will use
 
Bottle tops to me my flower petals
 

 
 
A plastic bag to use as a alice band
 
Using Straws as
 

 
Bottle top leafs comming of of the flower
 


Head Architecture

Head Architecture




This is a piece of head Architecture by the famous Milliner Philip Treacy.
I like this piece of head Architecture because it connects to my theme
natural forms. This piece connects with my theme as all of the objects
 flowers,leafs and butterflys connect to natural forms.This inspires me because
 I like the different naturals forms all connected together and it helps inspire
 my ideas by the different natural forms it is using.

This head piece by tonya gross is very nice because it shows a different type
of head architecture. I like this piece because it fits into my theme of
natural forms and also it is hard to guess what it is so it isnt as obvious and some
of the pieces of head architecture. This piece of work will also inspire me because I like
the idea of using one main material to show my theme.

This piece of head architecture was inspired by dahilas which grew in this
designers home. This piece of work would inspire me as I like how they have changed the shape
of the flowers edges to make it more like that type of flower. It also inspires me as it
was made up from recycled metal cans which is the media we are working
with (recyled objects)

This is an ancient egyption cleopatra head piece which Ithink is really insperational
as it is a cultural head piece which is very recongizable. This also inspires me as out aim is
to make a head piece out of recyled things. Even though these things are not
recyled I could imagine a similar head piece but made out of recyled objects.

This is a headdress from china. I think this is very insperational for my piece
of work because this is very cultural but also i could imagine this made out
of recyled objects such as cans, pom poms and feathers which out topic is about, I choose
to add this piece to my blog as it inspires me in those aspects.



This head piece is also by Phillip Treacy. I think this is very insperational for me
as it really fits into my theme of nature and natural forms. Also i could
easily re-create this head piece using my own recyled materials. I connected
parts of this piece to my work, for example I was inspired by the butterflys and
used this idea for my ear architecture homework. 

This piece of hat architecture really inspires me due to its ideas which is
leafs which connects to my theme and it will influence me too
make my piece of body architectue simple but very effective.

This is another piece of head architecture by Phillip Treacy.
This Piece inspires me soo much due to the flower on the top of the head
piece which connect to my theme but also the netting parts flowing of off the head
piece. That inspires me as it reminds be of spiders webs that i focused
on in my first piece of work (my paper glove architecture).

This piece of work reminds me of a certain type of tree bark which
also fits in with my theme. This piece is made from a non recycled
piece of material but I could imagine it made with a recyled material
which is why this piece inspires me.


This piece of work is also by Philip Treacy. Its very much inspires me
dues to the interwinding pieces of material which when put together
reminds me of a type of flower which is connected to my theme of natural forms.
Even though this piece isnt made out of recycled material it could have easily
of been made from recycled paper.