T shirt printing

I managed to find this place called smarty pants in worksop who did my t shirt exactly as i wanted! the end result on the shirt came out a little bit pixalated but all in all it looks really good as a garment. I think im gunna do a lot more of these before my exhibition, its funny because from the start i was ademant that i wasnt touching any garment, and now its my end piece.

T shirt design

So i started doing these little mock ups of t shirt designs with some collages that i'd done earleir in the project, i really think they work well as garments, im looking into getting a few made, but its just a ballache finding somewhere that will do them. Theres a place in worksop that does t shirt printing but i dont know if they can do it directly like this. I looked online a lot at places that print t shirts but they dont do the image exactly like this, its all been ajusted so the image is central or so that you get a specific area where your image can be.

Reflecting on my work

Overall im both happy and annoyed with my work, everytime i do something i tend to get this new idea and it just messes up my whole dynamic. My idea has now gone onto making fun of political figures by making them model my clothes. I kinda think this would be funny.

I got this idea because i was thinking of the whole idea of making my own bound book for the exhibition, but now that i think about it, if i have a book just full of designs wont that just be another sketchbook?! arghhhh.
If i did that idea with the people like david cameron and john mann, i could actually make fun of them, which i would find more enjoyable than doing something i dont find interesting.

I really want my project to go in this direction, but its just finding the place to do it and the time to do it. i never have time to work at home, so im probably gunna go into college over the rest of half term just to get some work done.

Richard hamilton

I've found this new artist named richard hamilton, he's a painter and a collage artist, but i can't help but notice his collages look very fashion based! i love his work, he combines his painting and collage with real spaces, (i.e an empty room with plain walls and plug sockets).

His work looks really simple too, but with the amount of pictures piled into his one picture, it must be very complex and time consuming.



These pictures are from his work titles :Photomontage. I really like the look of them, they're just so weird and random, like the giant lolopop in that scene just looks so normal yet out of place. 

Hannah Hoch

I can't remember if ive looked at hannah hoch before, i think i did when i first started looking at collage. I really liked her work because it seemed so free, i like to think my work is a lot like hers, even if mine is rubbish compared to it. Actually i dont think my works shitty at all, i'd rather believe mine and her work are on the same level, but just in different contexts. she enjoys going all out and wild in her work, just like me!!



 Ive just started looking at more artists because ive kind of narrowed my knowledge base to like, 3 artists, so im just broadening it abitt now, so i can see new and fun ways to work. This work kind of shows me that i dont have to use body parts to do anything to a person, the picture with the scissors has some random brown square as a body, but it just looks right.

Réne Van Den Berg

This is one of the last artists im putting on to do with the shoes, the shoes they've designed don't tie in directly with what im doing but I still think they're super cool. They did a collaboration with Leanie Van Der Vyver to do her Scary Beautiful shoes. Originally he is an orthopaedic shoe designer, although now he concentrates mainly on fashion and these wild designs he does. 

I really love this shoe (above), the shoe itself splits into two sections down the middle and you physically encase the wearers foot with it.

 

Caroline Sciancalelpre

I really like these shoes, mainly because they're not shoes at all. They're pedestals, they don't attach to the feet directly, the wearer just stands on top of them. I like them because of this little feature, the design is really weird and cool, but I don't like the fact that you can't walk around in them when you have them on. That takes the theme of them being a shoe away and makes them more of an installation or a interactive sculpture. The shoes have been hailed as the ultimate concept shoes.

 

If I was going to try and design some of these I'd want to make them into actual shoes, so all they'd really need is some strap that goes over the top of them to keep your feet held in. in a way I'd like to make them taller as well.