One of my friends modelled my shirt I made for me in the smoking area of the school. This was the perfect place to do it with all the graffiti.
I was going for an editorial look with my model, with grungy, smokey makeup. Punk makeup is fearless and unconventional. It boldly defies beauty norms and inspired me to experiment with vivid colours and graphic lines. Embracing the anti establishment ethos of punk culture.
I started off with a plain white work shirt, and painted parts of the shirt red to try and create a tartan print.
This was an extremely tedious process as I drew every individual line on the shirt. It was worth the head ache as I’m happy with how it turned out, even though it kinda of looked like a cowboy shirt at this point.
I created patches to sew onto my shirt out of material given to us in our “make your mark” workshop.
I included a few punk band logos, including “Crass” and “Misfits”, as well as working class, anti fascist logos and anarchist patches, all important parts of punk culture and ethos.
As well as that I cropped the shirt, and cut the cuffs off, and then reattached them with safety pins.
Here I created a stencil for me to spray paint the back of my shirt on my balcony . I chose to paint a Union Jack as the UK is the birth place of punk, and was prominent staple in punk fashion items.
Lastly I created a small chain out of the tabs of monster energy drinks, I’ve been saving the lids for about a year now, and knew that they would be handy at some point.
I created the links by cutting a slit at the bottom of three tabs and then linking them onto three more tabs, and just repeated this process l.
And here is the finished shirt!!!! I’m so pleased with how it turned out!
I had really great time making it, and made me step out of my comfort zone and use different materials and styles than I usually would.