Fairy-Stitching

This was by far my favorite swatch! For it, I made little cherry blossoms out of the light-weight material, then ironed them. I ironed them to make different flattened formations and then loosely stitched them together - like fairies stitching flower petals together! I'm going to use this swatch for the majority of my skirt as I think it keeps in with my subject and theme very well.

The Cottingley Fairies

These are the beautiful images taken by Frances (16) and Elsie (10) of each other with the Cottingley fairies. The girls would return every day to watch the little fairies flutter by the little brook at the end of their garden., and eventually decided to photograph the stunning creatures . I'm using the images that Frances and Elsie took as a basis for my inspiration for this project. There's an endless amount of swatch inspiration that I can source already  - the girls' hair, the flowers, the fairies' skirts, the trees..... 

When I think of 'Ethereal', i think of haunting beauty. I think of beautiful, mystical forests of pink cherry blossom trees billowing in the wind. The soft petals being caught on a breeze and flying through the air...

I'm going to use the cherry blossom tree as my main research point. I intend to do so by recreating the blossoms through various fabric manipulations and also by allowing images (including my own) of blossoms to inspire my work on the stand and in my sketchbook.

e·the·re·al  (-thîr-l)

adj.

1. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible.

2. Highly refined; delicate. See Synonyms at airy.

3.

a. Of the celestial spheres; heavenly.

b. Not of this world; spiritual.

4. Chemistry Of or relating to ether.

Typography

Since Monday we've been experimenting with typography. For me, I have to come up with as many ways as possible to depict my word 'Assemble' through different types of type. I have to really analysis my word and see what works. What colour is 'assemble'? Is it serif or sans serif? Upper case, lower case or a mixture? Bold, italic or roman? They're the basic questions but we also have to look at all kinds of references that we like. Such a multitude of ways to express one word!

A S S E M B L E

 

Seeing as my collage idea wasn't exactly working out for the best, I decided to go with something simple - yet I think it communicates 'assemble' quite well! I thought about assembling something that you wouldn't usually assesmble.. or would usually disassemble - an orange! So I bought a single orange, took it apart.. then put it back together again. As research I've been looking at assembly sheets of toys, furniture and even things as simple as cardbord boxes. I think it'd look great as an illustration, but it'll need to be precise!

Illustration references