Final piece idea

This is the idea for my final piece, I have the seashells on the head to link in with my theme headress and also to link into the theme sea scape. The face will be a mixture of blue and green to fit in with my trail piece and the hair the same colour hair but expanded the whole way out and dark around the edges. I will also have different linking ideas Of sea scale like sea horses and star fish 

These are the images I will use to paint from and to follow the colours they are to look more realistic 

Tonal study

This is a tonal study of the image I used in my final piece 

I then photocopied and expanded black ink to make into a type of headress. This could be based on the artist from the broad ways little mermaid creator of the fish headdress which are wire and have hinges enabling them to move 

Mono-print

This is the mono print of the image used in my final piece

I then photo copied and used it to create head dress designs with cut up shell pictures to link it into my sea theme 

Photo imagery used in final piece

These are the images which I can use in my final piece to copy and record onto my final painting 

Final piece image

This is the portrait photo which I will use for my final piece painting 

Artist research

These are sea themed head dress taken from the little mermaid these have hinges to allow movement to create a even more movement through 

Shells from glue gun

Coloured in to make then stand out and could be used to fill in the back of headdress for even create a small headress idea made fully out of glue 

Raipun artist research

This is my photoshop piece of the artist christiane vleugels (Raipun) who creates very realistic painting portraits using oil paints. Some of which follow my sea theme 

Cut outs with the scalpel

This a piece which is very delicate and could be involved on the head piece to fill in the extra space 

I did one of a ice cream which links in with my sea theme and would go either in the additional space of my painting or on the back part of my headpiece 

Ideas for final piece

Starting of with the face I looked at my previous additional painting 

I then did the hair In waves 

Finished version of the face 

This is more linking Into the sea which will link Into the mermaid them linking into my seaside theme. I also cut out the shells with the scalpel 

Additional piece

This is a painting which is linking portrait and sea theme forcusing the sea on her hair 

Sample of materials

Wallpaper paste and Cottonwool. To make a cotton fabric 

Then make more and more layers to make it thicker then i add colour with Brusho dyes 

Then I painted over them and cut them out to look more like shells 

Design ideas 1

I first found a picture of a mr whippy ice cream which usually have connotations of a beach environment and association of the seaside 

Then the star fish and shells which are also found on the beaches everywhere and give the pleasant idea of being at the beach. 

This is the finished design 1 in black and white I will next add different colours. Added back grounds onto the head piece and the test different materials 

My own and Internet photography

These are my own photography for seascape 

These are a collage of Internet images which fit in with my sea scape 

This is my semi final piece

My semi-final research piece is focused on the sea theme with shells made out of plaster of Paris and a mod rock base. The shell behind is also made of modrock and painted the similar colours to the original shells  

Research into different styles of headdress - Philip treacy

Philip treacy uses many form of different headdresses with his main style really just a bit of the weird and wonderful he uses all types of shapes, colour, fabric to make all his headdresses. In this one he uses abstract shapes to show more of a lightening effect. 

This piece includes a much lighter an more mouldable fabric which creates a more down to earth hand more focusing on wearable fashion. 

This looks more like the type which are the original Indian headdresses. The feather like shape in the n form around the face with also involving a bird. This is much like the Indian very high view on nature and animals. 

Brusho painting

Images of beach landscapes 

My own imagery

These are images that introduce my sea scape theme. These are photos of Seaham beach at sunrise with landscape, rock imagary, sea imagery photos included. 

Introduction

Welcome to my blog! This blog is acting as a collection of my research, ideas, designs and photography. I will be exploring the theme of HEADDRESS for my GCSE Art Unit 2 project. I have decided to assign myself a subtheme of 'Coast'. I will be using the coast as inspiration for my Headdresses, as well as cultural interpretations of Headdresses.