Baroque - part I

Remember I told you I'm going to post some more old fashion sketches of mine, to see how I used to draw when I was younger, respectively in highschool? Well I'm going to show you my works from my highschool graduation project. It consisted of four art works, a poster, six fashion sketches, a textile work and a costume. The ones I'm going to show you now are the first two, the others will be soon to see on my blog. My project was inpired by the Baroque era (appeared around 1600, more about it here ), the sketches present dresses inspired by it but in a more modern interpretation and the poster presents a young lady dressed in a red baroque style dress, with very curly hair, like they used to wear it then, even it was actually curly hair wigs they used to wear a lot in that time. This poster was the piece I worked most on from this project, it was fun though cause I really liked what I was doing and the result was excellent, its's my favourite work, well one of them. The techniques I used for it are watercolours combined with  baroque style patterned paper applications (for the writing and hair decoration) and I used a sprayer for the black areas, that was really a challenging thing, as I never  used the sprayer before in colouring my works back then (the graffiti artists are really pro's with it though). Hope you really enjoy this post and new one is soon to come! :D

Static vs Dynamic

I'd like to show you some of my compositions I made in my second year of college. It's about three groups of compositions, in form of a circle, a square and triangle. Each of them has a static and a dynamic version. This whole theme of compositions in form of geometrical shapes was based on some symbols like divinity - triangle, the universe - circle and earth - square. For each composition we had to use specific colours (watercolours), red for the square, blue for the circle and yellow for the triangle, each of them we were aloud to mix only with black and white. It was kinda hard to think of a static composition in a square, I found it easier to do a static composition in a circle and triangle and  I came to pretty good results after all, my professor liked them :P. Well, hope you'll find them interesting too, I'm hoping for feedback, thanks and have a peachy day!:D

 Square - Static

  Square - Dynamic

  Circle - Static

Circle - Dynamic 

 

Triangle - Static and Dynamic

Bodypainting

About three years ago we had a bodypainting theme at college. As you may have already noticed, my inspiration  came from the Indian bodypainting style/technique using henna, but  for me, I just used water colours cause its easier to wash off after :P. My friend Andreea  was so nice being my model, but hey, she looks soo good like that, must be another reason why i've got a very good grade for the work maybe:P. Anyway we had a fun time painting her and she me...:P

Klimt

 

The artwork above is a composition I made in highschool that was thought for a competition with the Gustav Klimt theme. It took me some time to finish it, but the result was a pretty one. I really like Klimt's style, with all his elegant gold or coloured decoration, spirals and swirls, that inpired me in my work.