Day 10: Finalizing dress form and value

The dress is finally coming together. We put each part together today and as much as we would have liked to create the original bodice, it was just not practical with the time we have left. Instead we have decided to hang it on sheer and wrap it around the shoulder. The sheer provides some soft, flowing texture to balance out the hardness of the sand and wire. The product we decided to make was a flower embedded wire mesh belt. The group is very pleased that our many challenges have finally been solved. Only minor details and the cloth to wear underneath are the only things left to do.

In the afternoon there was another model. Moving on from really distinguishing negative and positive space, we painted all values of grey darker than a value of 5 in black to create a very interesting and somewhat abstract piece. I really enjoyed how these pieces came out. Again, we were forced to examine the value of every block of color on the form. The second piece was a little more abstract as it was of an object under harsher and more condensed lighting versus an obvious figure.