Sunday, 31 July 2016

THE FINAL EXHIBITION

AFTER weeks of hard work , we had compiled more than 10  paintings along with a garment, an object and a magazine cover.
on the last day we had an open hall exhibition with all the work we had done .



THE EXPERIENCE
I had the best time of my life and had a lot to learn from my immensely talented instructors Paul and Karen.
I worked on my existing skills and learned many new styles. the knowledge I gained in the past week is worthless and I will cherish this forever :).

TRIP TO STAURT DAVIS EXHIBITION

our final field trip was to the STUART DAVIS exhibition at the Whitney museum.
the exhibition was a wide range or graphic paintings done by stuart davis throughout his lifetime and many of his rough drafts of his final depictions.

since we were gathering ideas for our last project(ie. the magazine cover), it gave us many ideas on how we can graphically represent our thoughts.





 

Axonometric drawing

in the last week of our summer program, we learned about axonometric drawings.
Axonometric drawings is a type of parallel projection used for creating a pictorial drawing of an object.
it was beneficial as this was the time we were working for our object project and gave us a better opportunity to enhance our designing skills and its technicalities.
 

Saturday, 23 July 2016

OBJECT DESIGN

PROJECT : object design
AIM: to create an object influenced by the first week garment challenge.

IDEA:
as the garment created in the first week was influenced by tea, the object also has a similar effect.
the object i decided to create was a necklace that would bring out the essence of tea and its origin.

the main idea was to  bring a north eastern India influence with the style of the necklace and use the tea as an ornament.

THIS WEEKS PROGRESS:
the process began with bending wires into the following shape.

this shape is very particular to a peacock widely
 found in East India during the monsoon season
this leaf like shape provides a very authentic effect to the
 jewellery.
 the wire shape is then placed on a tea  stained soft -unryu sheet and coated with tea to maintain a connection between the garment and the object.

CAMOUFLAGE

with an apt knowledge of negative space we moved towards understanding the concept  of colour.
one of our second week projects included the camouflage painting 
This painting enhanced our sense of colour understanding.
we produced most of the colours by mixing two or more colours in considerable ratios to get the desired effect.
the camouflage painting.

Monday, 18 July 2016

PROJECT RUNWAY

today, we had the first ever runway show. 
A completely out of the blue yet an amazing
 opportunity to test the overall flair and stance of 
the dresses we created . it gave us a glimpse of 
all the hustle and rush that takes place in the
 fashion industry for putting up each fashion show.
it made us pay more attention to details that we
 would have otherwise neglected when the garment
was on the form.
                                                                                                                             


 

Saturday, 16 July 2016

CONTRAST : black and white

During our first week at Parsons,  we explored contrast through-

1.NEGATIVE SPACE PAINTING: 

Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space occasionally is used to artistic effect as the "real" subject of an image.
NEGATIVE SPACE PAINTING

 this style provided a better understanding of form (subject) and its surrounding. it also gave a glimpse into the creation of an abstract painting from a former detailed drawing.

2. TESSELLATION PATTERN:

what is tessellation?
-an arrangement of shapes closely fitted together, especially of polygons in a repeated pattern without gaps or overlapping.

learning how to tessellate simple patterns to produce innovative designs was one of the highlights. it gave us a chance to test our aesthetic ability to identify which among the numerous patterns created would look the best.

MY TESSELLATION PATTERN