Dennis Basso

My final designer who I would like to use in my final piece is Dennis Basso. He is a American Designer who used fur to create his pices. He has many designs and i am particullary attracted to his skirts which I may involve in my final piece.

Back To Shepard Fairey

I have added more pages to my sketch book. I have added in another Artist who I was originally going to use before I changed my mind on the Direction of my sketch book. It is Shepard Fairey and I have included him because his Obama art has messages like 'Help' and 'Progress'. I have tried to link this to protest and have primary images to link also.

Samples

I have made 6 A3 samples using a range of techniques. I have followed a theme throught my samples and made them all American flags. The techniques I used where

• Applique
• Weaving, one weaved through chicken wire.
• Tie Dye
• Burning
• Soldjering Iron
• Layering Material then tearing down the middle.

Katherine Hamnett

The designer I looked at was Katherine Hamnett. She was one of the first designers to produce protest message T-Shirts so she is very relavent to my project. I recieved both secondary and primary images, retrieving my primary images from a top I own which is a similar style to hamentts and got one of my firends to model it for my portfolio. I also made a page full off keywords which i sowed into my sketch book.

Human Rights

After looking at Protest i thought about things that people may protest for. The main thing I thought of was Human rights. I looked at in how America especially Black people were dined the same rights as White people and the segrigation they went through. This lead me to look at 'The KKK' a group of people who acted in extremist way towards black people.

Protest

The next few pages in my sketchbook I have looked at protest. I made a page of keywords that I think of when i say protest. The words I thought of were Goverment, Strike, March, Boards, Anti war and pacifist.

Also I went to an actual protest in which I retrieved images and I have added in small images of the people and signs there. This has helped boost up the amount of primary images.

This lead me to look at my first Artist Brain D Morgan. He looks at american soliders and I think his work really represents my sketchbook well. I then tried to reproduce his art by using a model and american flag on her. I then put the protest words in the back ground like Morgan did in his image.

Viet Namn

After looking through my time line I decied to use vietnam as an event to look at in further detail. I talked about how Americans though that the soliders stayed in viet nam for too long and how they came to disagree with the war. This lead me to think about incorparating protest in my work, since a lot of 'Hippys' protested against it.

Insperation & History

In the first two pages of my 'new' sketchbook I have looked at what inspired me to choose look at America and American History.

On my insperation page it is still the same as I wrote about earlier in the blog, Marina and The Dimonds and her music video Hollywood. I talked about how her vintage clothing and props in her video really intrested me and that I would like to achieve something similar to this in my final pieces.

On The American History page I found a time line of the internet and I then went throught and added the dates and events that I thought were the most important and relevent to my project. These were

• 1492 - Columbous founds USA
• 1793 - First Textile mill opened in US.
• 1876 - Telephone invented
• 1914-1918 - WW1
• 1920 - Women given right to vote
• 1929 - Wall street crash
• 1941 - Pearl Harbour
• 1942 - D-Day
• 1954-1973 - Vietnam

I chose to use a timeline becuase i could then pick events which i could take further on in my portfilio and devolp and minipulate them.

New Portfolio

Since in this unit it is a personal specification you have to feel pasionate and intrested in the work your doing and my sketchbook so far has not intressted me. So I have changed my layout and started from fresh. I have looked at the bright blues, reds and whites of the American flag and used these as my background, using different media in these colours to give my portfolio more texture. I feel that with this change of layout and style it has got me intrested in the topic again and has gave me passion to start to look at new areas for my sketch book.