Getting Materials and a Model with Fabric

This morning we looked at sketches our group had done for our garment and decided on a basic shape and brainstormed ideas for materials! We decided on a dress with this basic shape: 

We played around with folding tracing paper to create a pleated look and liked the idea of using a bunch of pieces of folded tracing paper to emulate the shapes of flames and we could put color on the base of the dress so the color would show through the paper. This is a sketch of a preliminary idea for the dress, because I'm sure it will change when we are actually working with the materials. 

Then we went to Home Depot and Utrecht and got some materials including a cheap strapless dress for the base, tracing paper, metal wire, brown paper, caution tape, and steel wool (to look like smoke). We also want to play around with burning the paper, because that would look interesting and reflect the fire station. 

In the afternoon, we had a model sitting down, draped in camouflage fabric with a few pieces of different camouflage fabric draped in the background too. We drew in the model and fabric, and so far we are only supposed to paint the fabric parts, not the model.