Paper Challenge

 

This was a short project designed to challenge. The idea was to make a fashion garment out of paper, it could be anything from a dress to a hat as long as it could be worn on the body. My one, as you can see, is a bodice. I started by doing paper maché on a mannequin to create a hard body shell, then scrunched paper into loose balls and glued them on, this gave a textured feel. To get the colour I used black spray paint and because of the uneven surface it gave a interesting speckled look. I decided to take the photographs in these locations as the garment lends itself to quite a broken and a sort of 'wall' textured place, the sunlight in most was like the bodice itself highlighting the light areas and darkening the dark areas.