Assignment 4 : Monogram

Assignment 4 :Monogram

We finally received our individual assignment from Ms Lisa."MONOGRAMS" she said.On that day itself she  gave us an hours time to visit the library and go  through books related to font art which will help to inspire our latest art piece.With the help of my class mates ,they would each pick out a word that would best describe me .

After scavenging and rampaging through the books sorted out in the library,I begin to see a pattern  I'd much fancy.I realised most of the fonts I had picked out were mainly made out of bold letters.

I guess it was kinda strange,no one knew exactly what I was,silence........   .Finally Ms Lisa broke the silence by describing me as "Vintage". I suppose in a way I am,I love all these old  carnival fonts,vintage logos,bold bright colours to begin with.But the "vintage" she described mostly meant dainty suppled things,airy and free.

Examples of my inspiration :

Whiles doing some research I realised that vintage could mean a lot of things.When I googled modern vintage they were mostly focused on the visuals.

Fast Update :

Unfortunately after I showed Ms Lisa my drafts I had I misunderstood the whole monogram thing.

The rejected monograms I purposed 

 From what I read and understood a monogram is a motif of two or more interwoven letters,typically a person's initials,used to identify a personal possessions or a logo.And apparently  I tried to spell my name out "IMN" instead of my initials which were "IN".Therefore, I then knew what I must do and re-sketch my new ideas.

I extended my research online.There I used mediums like pinterest , instagram and of course google .

My newer designs :

Design number 2 was chosen with a bit of an alteration 

 First attempt on the smaller sized stencils, I accidentally cut off the top swirl :/

  Trials

The final products 

Rational :

Since I've done stencilling before it wasn't much of a challenge for me,I mean apart from almost loosing a chunk of meat on my fingers, I survived :) I didn't take as much progression pictures as I wanted too,with my fingers dirtied with paint,I chose to keep my artwork clean.This was an easy process where all I had to do was paste the stencil over my items and either use the spongy dabbing technique with acrylic or use spray paint.However,theres always a but,it was tricky not to get the paint leaking underneath the stencil.I had to secure everything properly.

For the poster noticed that I picked out a simple frame.I did it so that it wouldn't draw to much attention rather then the monogram itself.It was also best to keep thing at a minimal.

I wanted to keep a theme,I knew very well it was best to.I sticked to browns and pastel colours,mostly blues since they are my favourite colour.Overall Im proud that I've made it this far :)

6 items I've used:
-bell jar
-envelope
-cork board
-flower pot
-note book
-coster
 and a drawstring bag

Resources:
1. goodtype -instagram
2. Pinterest