Design Sheets.

For my first design sheet, I used secondary photographs, taken from Pinterest of the beach and events that occurred in the 1960s. As my model for my final piece is going to be of a beach scene, I used photographs of both Brighton and Scarborough beach. These were then collaged into the corner of my sheet. My final piece is also going to consist of a projection of world events such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the JFK Assassination. Photographs of other events I am focusing on are displayed on the bottom of the page portrayed through a suggestive film strip. At the top of the page I have draw a collection of vintage suitcases, these show how my final piece is going to be presented, in a vintage suitcase. I also plan to make small scale beach huts to fit into my model, to show this I have chosen to create a paper cut of beach huts, as I enjoyed experimenting with this in my sketchbook and thought it would be a creative way to portray the huts on my design page. My final piece is also going to contain small figurines that I will paint on, influenced by artists such as Rudi Gernreich and F.C. Gundlach for bikini designs. Yves Saint Laurent and Paco Rabanne may also influence my bikini designs. As I ordered the wrong size figurines for my final piece, I ordered some more the correct size and used the others on this design sheet. 

In my project proposal I wrote mainly about how I was going to look mainly at fashion and fashion designers within this project. However, when I started I thought that the subject was beginning to take a more fashion and textiles route instead of a 3D one. I also didn't feel that my final piece was going to look interesting enough compared to my mental health project the previous year. As I am interested in history and the 1960s thrived with many world events, I began looking events that took place on the beach such as the Mods and Rockers war in Brighton 1964. I thought about making my model a scene from this event, however did not feel this would support my own ideas and work as it is already a previous scene. I then started looking at ways in how I could portray the events, settling on creating a projection on news reels of the events that happened. 

For my second design sheet I have experimented with colours creating three different colour schemes for my final design. The first selection of colours I chose to look at is taken from 'the swinging sixties' and what I would typically portray the colour scheme to be based around the 1960s period. I have taken bold and warm colours such as yellows, oranges and red as I believe these colours strongly represent this period. 

The second colour scheme I chose to look at takes a less bold approach and focuses on more pastel tones. I chose to look at these colours as I believe they represent a more vintage vibe than the brighter colours do, something that I am trying to portray in my final piece. 

The final colour scheme I chose to look at is based on F.C. Gundlach's futuristic styles, achieved by the monochrome colour scheme. I like this look very much in Gundlach's work and think it would look very well in the way I paint each of the small figurines, however, in the rest of the model I don't think it portrays the sixties very well, therefore I won't be using this a main colour scheme.

My favourite look out of all the palettes is the pastel one as I feel it would be the best option in portraying the vintage beach theme I planned to created. 

To create this page I mixed gauche paint to achieve the colours I wanted and used a piece of card to scrape each colour across the page.