Year 13 sketchbook- Surreal and Dreamlike 

Here I explored Rene Magritte and found the surreal photographer Man Ray which I then took my own photos inspired by his work. I also made a double exposure commotion with a landscape and eye composition, this then developed onto a heat transfer on fabric with free machine stitch to add detail to the eye. 

These pages I developed from researching into a collection by Issey Miyake which gave me a botanical link so I explored tropical plants and focused on the centre of flowers. I made a mixture of samples and origami techniques to explore this which I then developed into a jacket which has the most successful technique falling own to the sleeve.     

This work was inspired by the surreal artist Max Ernst which gave me the coral link that I observed different types and also create a bubbly hole effect heating organza and also tyvek paper and adding detail with the sewing machine.  

The focus was scale and colour with these pages which I sketched large butterfly's inspired by Salvador Dali on double A1 pages, which I used oil pastels which worked well to blend and also acrylics. I also fragmented a drawing used with soft pastels to give a fragmented surreal feel.   

This page was linked to the designer Iris Van Herpen and her couture micro collection where I then explored cells and micro structures using dissolvable fabrics like aqua- film to give a cell like look. 

This page was also a link to Max Ernst where I looked at sea life and dyed silks using different dying techniques and painting with dye, developing from shells and the sea. 

This developed from my coral page and also inspired my Alexander Mc Queen link which I made a series of designs on photoshop which I repeated and used symmetry to create a final composition. I printed on various materials and also added more detail with embroidery thread.