Dress photoshoot

Here is my dress on my lovely model Chloe. Chloe modelled this dress on the fashion week catwalk for me and looks amazing in it. This pictures are beautiful...no editing needed I might add. The belt I bought from a vintage shop in Darlington really brings the dress together and does the beaded necklace. I also used used these images for my final exhibition and got some really good feed back out the photos and the dress.

Textile Postcards

I have created a range of textile postcards. Here is one example which I am also using for my final show as a promotional postcard. This is of Saltburn pier and I love it. It was created using tape transfer then stitched onto calico on the sewing machine and bits of the image were also stitched into to give the image texture. I then transferred it into Photoshop and adapted the levels and lighting.

Finally finished

After what seems like FOREVER my 1950's Polka dot dress is finally finished and I couldn't be happier or more relieved. However I have gone off polka dots for the time being, sick of seeing them haha.

On the bottom of the dress I have stitched in famous faces from the 1950's; James Dean, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe and my namesake Lauren Bacall. They were created using sticky back plastic transfer. They look fantastic, well I think so, they were just what the dress needed to make it really stand out. Would love to know what people think so feel free to comment.

Necklaces for sale

 

For my porfolio I decided to create a range of necklaces, as I will be creating jewellery on my university course. These necklaces are made using tye dye fabric, buttons, ribbon and a lot of care. 

I will be selling these style of necklaces online, in any colour range you wish. They will £3-£5 depending on the fabric choosen. Feel free to comment if you would like one and specify what colour/fabric you would like. Thanks

Industrial quilt

 

These pieces of work were created to become patches for a quilt. They were created using mixed media techniques. Materials used were, fabric, pen, pencil, thread, tracing paper, and foil. I used photographs and pen drawings to create these pieces. Sortly they will turned into the quilt as planned after I don't need them for my portfolio. I might hang the quilt in my new flat or sell it.

Artist cards cont.

 

Artist cards continued. Here are the ones created for my porfolio, backed onto fabric. I like the effect of the cards, lamanated and then machine stitched onto calaco. As you can see I tried out different techniques on the images of my dog, I tried in colour and black & white cut out. I prefer him in colour, it shows him off more.

Leaves

Here are three different versions of the same image I drew. The one on the left was created by scanning the original into Photoshop and being enhanced using the fill tool and levels. The middle one is the original created using, pen, pencil and watercolours. The last one on the right is made using newspaper collage, pen, pencil and thread. I like these images and I am going to frame them for my wall when they aren't needed for my portfolio.