A concern came up when beginning to piece together the swirls of the bodice: The swirls not only swivel but would not hold in place. The day resulted in experimenting different solutions. We tried weaving wire to make a fence-like structure to hold them right, however the wire was too stiff and hard to work with to fabricate a working weave pattern. Next we tried twisting wire at the ends to create two anchor points and to create a possible belt around the waist. Yet again, the wire was too hard to manipulate into the desired form. Finally, deciding that using more wire to anchor the wire swirls was not working, we switched materials and anchored the ends with duct tape. After, strips of sheer fabric were weaved in between the swirls to create a very interesting pattern and texture as the sheer fabric had many threads coming loose. Not only did this solve the problem, a very interesting and rather beautiful product was produced. Solving this challenge was very both relieving and satisfying.
The afternoon consisted of painting a 9-block gray scale. This was actually much, much more difficult than it seemed. Each shade of grey had to be in the exact centre. To find these middle shades, we were taught to judge the grey based on three concepts: contrasting edges, grouping and tuling (I probably spelled that wrong). Combining these three were very difficult and mixing one shade of grey actually took a good couple minutes of testing and minute adjustments. In fact, I actually had to re-do mine because the contrasting edges between each grey tone was either too crisp on one side and too blurred or similar on the other. The second time I took much longer and tested the colours about 8 times each before deciding on the right value. Making this gray scale actually made me realize that maybe I am not concerned enough about value when painting or mixing colours and that mixing the proper value actually takes far more effort than I believed. This was my first attempt at the gray scale:
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