Art & Design Foundation | `Mistune Mistyle .

Literally nearly there and I’ve decided to make one more dress – it somewhat resembles bubbles but it’s actually sourced from a previous photo below that shows a bowl shaped hemisphere glass which is hollow inside with a hole at the bottom.
Here are sketches of the described item;

and here is the image I cut circles from – a page in my sketchbook however I found the shape related to the glass pieces more so I took on that direction.

i did some further toiling and created a really simple response to this dress – if I had more time perhaps I’d cover the whole thing with circles, but I find it rather effective as it is.

Sadly at the time I had no model so I had to fulfill the task of modeling this myself, which was slightly awkward.

You could argue that this blog is severely overdue since I started this foundation course in late august/early september.
But the pathway choices are only just beginning. Desiring so strongly to pursue a career in the fashion industry, it wouldn’t be odd of me to have chosen the fashion/textiles pathway.

Before attending Demontfort U. I was advised at college to apply for a foundation before pursuing any career in the creative arts – and rightly so as many universities will quite happily issue the benefit of the doubt to foundation students and trust them – some university courses give foundation students the privilege of an unconditional interview whereas normal students would have had to have their grades, personal statements & such reviewed before even being granted an interview.

I feel that the experience and extra UCAS points will be extremely helpful when I apply for my choices in the coming weeks.

Today I participated in a Jewelry workshop @ DMU. The Jewelry workshop is connected to the metal workshop and they work closely together and share equipment. The workshop is fairly flexible and there was a fair amount of tools and materials available, Jewelry was actually a lot more difficult to make than I thought, the tools aren’t as easy to manipulate as I’d assumed and no matter how badly I wanted to make a ring – the tutor explained that it simply couldn’t be done in one lesson! However he’d taught us to make earrings – that didn’t pique my interest so I thundered on – determined to make a ring.
Sadly, the best I could do was make wire rings. That was still fun. I guess the best part of jewelry making is soldering. The solder is immensely strong and holds the different pieces of metal together very well too.

What annoyed me was the damn metal saw-thing it snapped at least 4 times during my metal cutting and I also succeeded in bashing in my fingers a few times. All in a days work.
Regardless, I was only after outcomes and I achieved just that.