Primary Research - Exhibitions.

The first exhibition I visited was the 'The Sixties' at the York Castle Museum. On display were different fashion garments such as dresses, coats and underwear allowing you to see what was in style back in the 1960s. Also on display where old newspapers, magazines, vinyl records and posters showing different events that occurred in this time. As my project in based on the 1960's time period and the fashion from this time it was very helpful and influential towards my work as I know have a better understanding of how to design the figurines in my model for my final piece. It also gave me a better understanding of the colours that were widely used throughout this decade, which can then give me a colour scheme for my for my work.

For the pages in my sketchbook on 'The sixties' exhibition, I took ideas from different pieces of artwork to use for my background. On some of the glass windows in the exhibition, large flowers decorated them, therefore I took this and used it for my first page. I cut out a stencil of the flower and used it to design my sheet. I used black and white paper as that were the colours of the flowers used on the window. For the background of the second page I painted it a pastel pink as a wall in the exhibition was painted this colour, I then used different coloured card to experiment with making a multicoloured strip that was used in another piece. I don't think this worked as well has I had hoped it would however I still think it looks interesting. I then used images I had taken at the gallery and used them to display in my book. If i were to change anything about this page I would have draw more and made it look more interesting as I feel it looks too boring with just images stuck on a page.

The second exhibition I visited was the 'Fashion & Freedom' exhibition at The Civic. Displayed here where garments designed by fashion designers and university fashion students portraying the 1914-18 - now style. I don't feel as though this exhibition was very inspiring for me towards my project as I felt they were more costume clothing than clothing that was actually worn in that period. However, there was one or two pieces that I did like out of the exhibition and could maybe take the colour scheme through into my project.

For this page I used photographs I took from the exhibition and collaged them onto the page along with the exhibition flyers promoting the work. I am not a fan of this page as I feel it looks very boring, if I could change this page I would add more colour and maybe some fashion illustrations of the clothes to make it look more engaging.