Breathe Project Work - Development

So today we discussed the designs in-depeth a bit more and figured out some ideas for sampling. We were also told by Kate the lead designer that the dance group director looked at the designs and decided that he didn't want the character group called the "Regals", as in Breathe there should be no heir-achy. He changed this to a character group called the "Builders".

Between myself and the other girls working on the Elder cloaks I chose these two designs below:-

I felt that they had real potential with the textile ideas I had in mind. These include the following:-

- Stone Washed Colours

- Bright Colours to contrast - rusts/iridescent?

- Barnacles entwined?

- Plastics = Materials = cling film, carrier bags, mixed media, bubble wrap, ovelocking fabric, asatate sheets, dissolve-able fabric.

Male Design

- Fringing - spaced, painted textured suit jacket

Female Design

- Draped fabric, create pattern and cut to shape of design

- Elastic under the arms

- Trousers - Flap covering the opening

I really wanted to explore the ideas of plastics and textured so I wrote the list of materials I needed from the Breathe group. By next session I should be able to experiment with these and create some exciting textures!

In the meantime I found the jacket I wanted to work with for the male design and started brainstorming some ideas. This included layering up fabrics on-top of one another  to get some inspiration.

I really liked this textural effect of the net on-top of the jacket. I think I can somehow incorporate this into my sampling.

This session has taught me the importance of writing down all of your ideas when problem solving. It really helped me to think out loud and visually see my thought process before jumping in ahead and running straight into making something.

Next session for the Breathe Club we have agreed to make the Barnacles for the cloaks. I will be leading this workshop with Amy. It should be very fun and engaging!