Sustained Investigation #13

For every project in my sustained investigation unit I have drawn a character that has something to do with fashion. So in SI #12 I made a reference for bringing my characters to life. For this project I was the character and I customized a work jacket with a similar design to the character I made.

For materials had had to use acrylic paint so the paint would stick. I mixed it with a fabric substance so it won't crack and it will stay on the jacket through water and through the wash. I used orange and red acrylic mostly and dark red fot the outline of the whole fire flower.

I started by going to buy a jean jacket. I went to 4 four differernt stores and not a single one had what I was looking for so I settled with a work jacket that I found at Burlington Coat Factory. Then I sketched designs that I could put on the bck to switch it up from what I did on the back of the jacket on SI #12. I ended up picking the fire flower because it fit with the color of the jacket and it looked the most like something that would be on the back of a jacket. I then measured where the center of the back of the jacket was and I used a ruler and made straight lones down the center vertically and horizontally. Then I crossed the lines and made a circle in the center. I used this circle for the head of the flower and made the pedals off of that. Then I drew the flames and improvised them a couple times to make them longer. I the mixed white paint with the fabric stuff and did four layers of that. Then I sketched the design again an started painting the flower first. To paint the fire I started with a base of red on the bottom, and yellow for the rest of it. I mixed red and yellow to make the perfect fir for the orange and I started painting. I made darker and darker shed with red and the orange I made to fade the orange down to the red. I finished the back by doing small streaks of red and orange to make it look like the flame was moving. I finished the jacket by doing a small flower on the front and I did the same process for that.