Who am I

 Who am I is a question that in can't answer 100% because i think in this stage of my life, i'm still discover who i really am.

All my life i had a big connection to the nature and to the sea, being one of my problems exhaust, they are the places i can think properly and listen the nature. I always was connected to the arts because of my family, started with crafts, drawings and music make me start play cello for many years.

Music and art become a way of my future expression and opening for being more sensitive to everything that surrounds me.

I made this drawing digitally, using the the app Krita.

The drawing represent all my thoughts and my imagination, becoming the person i am.

I decided to focus in the thoughts and try to draw it with freedom, because one of my biggest characteristics is the fact that i am always overthinking about everything. The lines and patterns represent the way i do that and the sensations that i feel, shaping my personality.

Class Exercise

I used the website Visme to create my final project steps until finish it.

Color Research

In this post, i'm going to explore the color palette that i will use on my collection in base of my research about colors.

Beginning with my research base, the painting from Bosch. Bosch painted in a style known as alla prima, a painting technique in which pigments are laid on in one application with little or no underpainting.

the Renaissance palette mirrored that of the Medieval Age but for three pigments: Naples yellow, smalt and carmine lake (cochineal). Other reds were vermilion and madder lake, which brought to Europe by crusaders in the 12th century.

The Renaissance color palette also featured realgar and among the blues azurite, ultramarine and indigo. The greens were verdigris, green earth and malachite; the yellows were Naples yellow, orpiment, and lead-tin yellow. Renaissance browns were obtained from umber. Whites were lead white, gypsum and lime white, and blacks were carbon black and bone black.

Source: Pigments Through the ages

After searching about the color pigments, i went to Pantone Website and clicked in "find Pantone color"

Lead Tin yellow

The origin of lead-tin-yellow can be dated back to at least the thirteenth century when Type II was applied in frescos, perhaps having been discovered as a by-product of crystal glass production. Until the eighteenth century, Type I was the standard yellow used in oil painting.

Carmin Lake

is one out of the 4 types of Carmine; it is a deep red powder, made of lacquered aluminum and carminic acid, and is soluble in alkaline solutions. It is obtained by aqueous extraction of cochineal color, followed by a drying and grinding process. It provides an deep red color solution.

Copper Resinate and verdigris

A transparent jade-green glaze formed by dissolving copper salts in Venice turpentine.

Verdigris is the ur-turquoise. It is also sometimes known as “copper green” or “earth green,” since the pigment was commonly made from ground-up malachite or oxidized copper deposits.

Source: pattern curator

Research: Earthly Delights

In this blog post i'm going to develop deeply the symbolism of the painting "Garden of earthly delights" to help me in my creative thinking while i am making my final project. 

This painting is one of the most complex and enigmatic creations. 

The three scenes were painted with a common concept of sin, as we look, starts in paradise with Adam and Eve and ends in hell. The middle panel, representing the earth with influence of medieval symbolism, give an idea of false paradise and given over to the sin of lust. 

he dominant subject of the painting is fleshy pleasure. 

fleeting nature of pleasure 

it depicts the union of Adam and Eve on the left panel, the aforementioned bacchanal on the sprawling central panel, and a bawdy Hell on a panel to the right. Taken as a single narrative, it shows the fiery fate of humanity consumed by passion and pleasure. 

The central panel is the painting’s largest and shows a pleasure garden bursting with mostly nude, beautiful young things engaging in all manner of amorous acrobatics. 

Surrounding the figures we see spurting fountains, fecund fruit trees, and a vast array of creatures that allude to the pleasures and chaos to come.

The animals that cover the central panel also evoke carnal urges. 

 “If we look closely, the only thing that connects Paradise with Hell is sin.” cited by Pilar Silva Maroto, curator at the Museo del Prado

The final panel depicts a dusky, humorously bizarre hellscape. 

A lot of details are gorier.

the power of Bosch’s work lies not only in its innovative, curiosity-sparking symbolism, but in its ability to harness timeless human urges and reflect them back into contemporary viewer’s worlds with mesmerizing relevancy. 

Source

Alexxa Gotthardt in Decoding Bosch’s Wild, Whimsical “Garden of Earthly Delights”. [online] available at https://www.artsy.net/series/stories-10-art-historys-iconic-works/artsy-editorial-decoding-boschs-wild-whimsical-garden-earthly-delights

Artist research: Alonso Murillo

 For my project about Earthly Delights, i searched for a Fashion Stylist, Alonso Murillo from Mexico.

Source: Alonso Murillo in Atoyac69

His work has always been driven by the attention for the details and telling stories through images, with the objective to communicate a message and feelings with the viewer.

I looked in Harpers Bazaar website and in the studio Atoyac69.

I am using this Photshoot as reference because i can relate my future collection with the textures and colors used in the fabrics and make up. 

"Textures collide with floral hues to create an abstract expressionism that mother nature could claim as her own" in Harper's Bazaar Arabia's February 2021

Photography: Fernando Rodriguez. Beauty: Gio Lozano Model: Juana De Las Carreras at Bryan Flores. Hair: Olvido Herrerias. Creative Director and Fashion Stylist: Alonso Murillo at Atoyac 69. Visual Artist: Miguel Millo. Photography Assistant: Megumi Yoshida. Fashion Assistant: Ana Dany Valle.

What Do I Know?

What do i know about Fashion Design?

Fashion design is  about clothes and observe the trends do develop a new clothing lines.

What should i be doing in subject area? 

I should be developing my Fashion vocabulary and research about artists to have more knowledge for my studies.

What skills and knowledge do i need for my subject area?

In my perspective, i need to have creativity, sense of style, develop a strong sewing skill and know how to work in team.

What jobs can i get by studying in this subject?

The Jobs i can get are Fashion Designer, Assistant Designer, Fashion Director, Fashion Editor, Fashion Merchandiser, Pattern Maker, (...).

Score myself out of ten: 6/10

Tessa Perlow's embroidered face

Source: Dwell