On to the next one...

Re-invention is really cool. We always have a jacket or a dress or top or whatever and think I love it .. if only it wasn't so long in the front... if only it didn't have those flowers printed on the sleeve.. if only it was a different colour.. if only the print was on the back! 


Now I'm discovering how to overcome those flaws in garments, by D.I.Y! What's stopping us from altering our clothes ourselves?!
And that's what I've been looking at over the last few weeks. I've shown how painting onto garments can totally revamp your wardrobe - one brush stroke at a time!


This is another jacket I'm working on at Uni:

I thought it'd be quite different to start working on the inside lining. Since our core is the most important part to us, I thought this might be a nice idea.
My favourite art movement is Surrealism, so I wanted to incorporate that particular influence into my work. I'm quite a dreamy, random person anyway and Surrealism helps me understand that part of me and to embrace it.


The images below are the starting point of a face that is meant to look as if it is emerging from within the layers of lining and wool.


I'm encouraging this idea of finding the beauty in the broken and when I bought this jacket, I didn't realise the entire hem of the lining had come away from the fabric. From this came the idea of having someone trapped between the two layers.


I did a photo shoot with my sister, taking this idea of confinement on board and then the painting began to take shape!

It looks kind of warped and freaky I know. That may have something to do with the fact that I am possibly a warped freak? Droopy eyes and a weird silhouette! It's not meant to look exactly like the photograph above at all. It's inspired by it but then made to look perhaps.. immortal.. almost cartoon-like..?

Most of all I really love the secrecy of it all. When this jacket is worn (by me?!) no one will know there's anything going on on the inside. It's about creating that bond with clothing, creating something special, something that you can be proud of. By painting/embellishing or whatever onto the clothes that you have lost a connection with, not only are you being part of a beautiful process, but you're saving the environment by saving what you already own in stead of buying new! Think about it! (You don't have to be Picasso, just slap some paint about and create fireworks of colours!)

INSIDE OUT.

I've also began to work on the outside of this blazer using both hand sewing and paint effects. (I'll have to upload more pics soon, I've only just started really!)