This is another photograph I’ve taken for my A-level art theme ‘discarded childhood’ that I have then edited on an app called ‘Picsart’ by using a holga effect as well as changing the hue and enhancing the colour. 

This is some of my photography for my chosen A level Art work based on ‘Discarded Childhood’. I’ve photographed a dummy and then duplicated the image on photoshop as well as editing the colours. 

This is my America journal from when I traveled to New York,Philadelphia and Washington. The pages above are of taxi cabs outside the hotel I was staying in alongside photographs I took as I was arriving in New York. The one textile piece I have done is of the taxi cabs, I printed off the picture on to calico fabric then I quilted the piece before eventually painting over it. 

This is an artist page I did as a response to Maciek Jasik’s work for my AS Art coursework. He was very relevant to my work as his one collection of work was based on fruit and veg, and the mystical mysteries and origins that comes with them, but many people has lost this knowledge. So he photographs the fruit/veg with poked holes in order to allow smoke to flow all around the item, creating a sinister yet magical feel to the photograph. The smoke is supposed to resemble the mythical mysteries behind the fruit/veg. But I interpreted the smoke as a form of smell and how the rotting of the fruit not only effects the item itself but the environment it’s within as well. 

Here’s a few pictures from my taster day at Cardiff Met where I had the challenge of making a garment on the dress stand out of re-used mens shirts, this challenge was titled ‘Zero waste challenge’. Then below I’ve done a quick fashion illustration of how I would roughly see the garment looking. 

These are two pages from my AS Art work based on rotting fruit and veg. On these two pages I have made studies on a pumpkin that I had left to rot over 3 weeks, taking interest in the change in colour and shape. As a response to the photograph I have drew the pumpkin using watercolours, colouring pencils and acrylic, then as an experiment I decided to use white cotton wool to resemble the mold growing on the pumpkin. 

This board is my experiment board for my lino printing work for AS Textiles, based on Native American patterns. I experimented to see how well the print would work being repeated numerous times, and also the fabric that suited best. In the end it ended up being printed on suede with turquoise paint as I thought it represented the culture at it’s best. I was strongly influenced by John Galliano’s Native American collection that is photographed above, and I wanted to transmit my inspiration to his prints in my final garment. 

This an experiment I did as part of my AS Art coursework using inks and some salt. The whole piece is based on rotting fruit and veg and I wanted this piece to have an explosion of colour. To begin with I didn’t like this piece at all, but after looking at it numerous times I started to grow fond of what I’ve achieved. 

This is my inspiration board for my AS coursework based on ‘Native Americans’. On this board I have drew a Native American chief that is inspired by the ornament in my house,included photographs I took whilst in America at the Native American museum, the I have also included inspirational words and a colour pallet to inspire my research. I’ve cut the board into the shape of a circle with dangling feathers as I wanted it to resemble a dream catcher, an item that is recognizable as Native American.

This is my samples development board based on the golden eagle, a bird of prey that is idolized in Native American culture, where the most honored feather to earn at battle would be one from the golden eagle. I managed to photograph a golden eagle at my local bird sanctuary in Ebbw-Vale, then i drew this bird with a black pen. For my second sample I printed off my drawing on to fabric and then painted the colours of the eagle with fabric paints, then to add a 3D element I sewed bird feathers on the head. I wasn’t quite happy with that sample as you could see where I had stitched the feathers. For my last sample I filled in the colours using free motion embroidery with a various amount of brown and gold cottons. This sample turned out to be my favorite, so I ended up using this technique on my garment.  

My research pages looking into ‘Inuit’ or commonly known as ‘Eskimo’ culture. I’ve used photographs that I’ve taken in Finland to help me with my research. ON the pages I’ve experimented with burning organsa with a heat gun for the fish, and used quilting for the totem pole.

Here are 2 pages from my AS Textiles project, these pages are a brainstorm of possible ideas for my final piece with illustrations of how I can see the item turning out, I’ve also done some market research on singular items to see what is trending and what could be the positives of creating that item with the samples I’d created. 

These are a few fashion illustrations I’ve done in my free time, some are recent and others are from a 2 years ago. The first illustration I did was inspired by the shape and movement of a butterfly and is unfinished, I’ve left it un-coloured as it was a year old illustration. The next illustration was from this year and is based on Native American style, when I was coming up with some ideas for my textiles coursework, the one next to that was an experimental drawing. I wanted this drawing to resemble me, a little quirky,whimsical and fun, with clothes that I’d wear myself. The last illustration was from 2 years ago and is based on a seahorse that’s on my bedroom wall, I was also inspired by the ostrich outfit that Miley Cyrus once wore with the head resting on the shoulder. 

These are too illustrations I did in my spare time of two of my friends from school, I really enjoy drawing fashion and playing with shape, so this is what I’ve tried to show here. 

These are some pictures I took of my final piece for my GCSE Textiles coursework of my cloak being modeled, just to give a feel for natural environment and the thought of a cloak full of insects wondering through a mass of green grass, tall overgrown trees and ivy. 

Here are some close up pictures of my second garment for my GCSE Textiles coursework project ‘Insects and bugs’. The front of the cloak includes hand sewn plastic spiders,and a spider necklace used for the drawstring of the cloak, as well as quilted spiders that was photographed by myself, fabric painted spider webs, flowers created out of re-used t-shits and foil and then some slashing. On the back of the hood there’s a hand embroidered spider web combined with free motion embroidery and hand glued sequins. 

These are some pictures I’ve taken of my final piece for my GCSE Textiles exam, my chosen title was ‘decoration’ and inside that title I chose decoration of sweets. My garment was inspired by Katy Perry’s music video ‘California gurls’ where the video was based in a candy land, I also wanted my garment to look like a candy queen. The garment is all hand spray painted and embellished with pieces that I’ve created,including: Batik waxed colourful peppermints with free motion embroidery; batik waxed ‘nerds’ characters;fabric printed pictures of sweets inside the quilted word ‘Melys’  in welsh meaning sweet; batik waxed candy hearts; sewn sweet wrappers and ruched netting. The last photograph is the illustration I did of my garment before creating it.