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Work from the first few days of my 4 wk Vis Comm rotation. We had to cut shapes out and then come up with a narrative they could tell. We then made a stop motion animation out of them by taking many, many, many, many, MANY photos and putting them into movie maker. There were definite improvements to make(not having my hand in the shot) but for my first attempt, I was pleased!
Final outcome for sculpture project.
Today The Edinburgh Printmakers had an open day on where they had various different taster workshops, so a fellow student, @rafia-mfad , and myself decided to go along and see what was available for us to try. We started off with a screen printing workshop, I’d always wanted to try screen printing but never had the chance, and I really enjoyed it! I spent a bit too much time thinking about what to draw instead of just doing it so my final result isn’t exactly what I had in mind but nevertheless I had fun with it. Secondly we did a plate lithography workshop. We started off with an A5 sheet of acetate and we had different pictures we could use for collage and some fine liner pens with which we could add more details. The images were then exposed onto a metal plate covered with a light-sensitive emulsion coating using a UV light exposure machine. The next step was to develop the exposed plate using an alkaline solution called ‘Neat Posidev’. We then applied ‘Gum Arabic’ to the developed plates, this is used to attract water to certain areas which ensures the oil based ink doesn’t stick in those areas. We had to use a roller to apply oil based ink to our images and keep the images wet using a sponge and clean water. Lastly the images were put through a motorised press and we finally had our prints. I found this workshop to be my favourite because I’ve never done anything like it before and I’m happy with how my print turned out. Our final workshop of the day was a Drypoint workshop. Beginning with a plain piece of paper we quickly sketched out our ideas. We the placed a sheet of acetate on top of our drawing and used a drypoint needle to traced/scratch our design into the acetate. We covered out design in ink, cleared off the excess and put it through a motorised press. I’m happy with how this final print turned out, but I wish I’d had a little more time to polish my design. Overall I had a really enjoyable day, it’s made me want to go back and see what courses they have on offer in the future.
Textiles Evaluation
23/10/2017 - 03/11/2017
I feel like my 2 week taster project in Textiles has come to an end so quickly. I very much enjoyed getting to grips with the new techniques and equipment I was able to use.
If I had more time for this rotation I would have liked to have spent more time experimenting with embroidery, to see what fabric it works best on and what stitches I prefer. I also would have liked a bit more time to play around with mixing the dyes together as I loved making new colours and seeing how they would come out on fabric.
I'm pleased with my development process for this project as I feel like I got to heat press a number of different prints and patterns, and I was able to see how the colours would look on different fabric. This helped to influence the sort of composition and use of colour in my final design and also what fabric I would end up choosing. I also made the decision to use my chosen dye colours as a colour scheme in my sketchbook, only writing with pink, blue and purple pens. I think this makes my sketchbook look visually appealing.
A part of this rotation that wasn't as successful as I would have hoped was my time management skills, which affected quite a few other aspects of the project. For example, I would have liked to cut out some pictures of people wearing various types of garments and accessories and use my prints in place of said items to see how they would look in a fashion context. I would also like to do this with an interiors magazine to see if any of my designs would work as cushion covers, bedding, curtains etc.
I think the research park of my creative process still needs some work, as I feel I could have written more about my chosen artists, Zandra Rhodes, Michael Craig-Martin and Patrick Caulfield. I was particularly inspired by Michael Craig-Martin's use of intense and garish colours in his work, some of which were very similar to the shades of dye I had used.
I thought about what my final printed piece could be, and thought that because of the lovely draping qualities of my chosen fabric (Crepe de Chine) it could be a headscarf or necktie. I experimented with different styles on myself at home but wasn't sure if I liked the final outcome so I showed the photos I had taken to my peers when we were presenting to each other and was encouraged, by them, to include these photos in my sketchbook.
At present I am working to finish off my sketchbook work for textiles, as I still have a few things I need to slot in and annotate. I also need to mount my disperse dye painting and attached headers to my finished fabric pieces. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed my time in textiles and was very happy with my final outcomes.
Different types of embroidery stitches
24/10/17 Textiles Rotation Day 2 This morning I continued experimenting with different colour ratios to try and get shades that were more similar to my colour palette. It ended up taking longer than I had anticipated, as I kept forgetting what colours I had mixed together and accidentally adding colours I didn’t mean to to my mixtures. After break we started working on some embroidery. We were introduced to different types of stitches such as seeding stitches, couching, and French knots. I had a lot of fun with this because I haven’t done embroidery in quite a while and I was very happy with my results. After lunch we were to draw from clothed mannequins focusing mainly on the colour and pattern of the garments that were on them. We could draw parts of the pattern and then paint them with our dyes or we could use papers we had printed with our chosen dyes to collage the patterns.
23/10/17 Today was our first day in the textiles rotation. Kim introduced us to disperse dyes and how to use them in heat transfer printing. We first had to sample all the dyes to see how the colours came out on the fabric as they were very different to how they looked on paper. After sampling these colours we were to find an image to use as inspiration for a colour palette, I used print by Zandra Rhodes as I really loved the purple, pink and blue colours in it. I then went onto mixing different ratios of the colours together to try and match the shades that were in my chosen image.
12/10/17 Life Drawing We did a lot of work with oil bar this session and I really ended up enjoying it! Oil bar is something I haven’t used a lot in the past so doing 16 small, 2 minute studies just experimenting with different media on top of it was very fun and helpful. My favourite studies were of the clear oil bar with charcoal on top as it smudged very well and allowed me to add a lot of tone in little time. That’s why I decided to do my 25 minute, more considered study using those materials. I’m happy with how it turned out, I really like how soft it looks.
Today's life drawing session focused on tone. I was a bit slow to start and while I was fairly happy with my first drawing I didn't get a lot of it finished. I do however really like my second drawing, using white chalk only. It was almost like drawing backwards, focusing on the light areas and blocking them in first The third study we did was using paint. I have a love/relationship with paint, I want to love it but I've never been very comfortable with it so I end up disliking a lot of things I do with it! I also painted the model too wide so that threw me off here too.
12/09/2017
In Tuesday’s class my perception of what drawing is has been forever changed.
We had to pair up with a classmate and draw them in different ways, using our non dominant hand, continuous line etc. Another task we had to do was to create small square out of drawings we had done.
I thoroughly enjoyed this class because it was different from anything else I’ve in an art and design course, I found it quite challenging at first but the more I let myself get into it the more I liked what I had made.
05/09/2017 - Textile Studios Drawing Exercise
Our next task was to draw our 3D lines using a range of techniques such as using your ‘wrong’ drawing hand, closing your eyes and drawing from memory, holding two media in one hand and continuous line.
My favourite piece was using tracing paper on top of a previous drawing and tracing various different parts of it. I like the different weight of line I got from holding a pro marker and a fine liner in the one hand.
05/09/2017 - Textile Studios Continued
The first thing we did today was to create a 3 dimensional line form using various different materials found in the textiles department.
Our brief had a selection of words to chose from that we then had to try and apply to our lines, this I found a bit challenging as I had no idea what sort of materials to expect when I was choosing my words.
I like how different my two lines are, the first one I made had a thinner, more angular look to it, where as I felt the second one was a bit more organic. I’m happy with the way the strands of cloth I cut in my second line were able to loop over themselves.
Although we did some large scale drawing activities later on with these lines I want to try doing some smaller scale drawings in my sketchbook of them at some point.
05/09/2017 - Working in the Textile Studios
Today we used some of our mark making tools we made last week. I loved finding out the sort of marks I’d get our of them. My favourite was definitely the rolled up section of a pink bath mat, I wasn’t expecting the swirly, circular shapes I got.
04/09/2017 Afternoon at Modern One
I always thoroughly enjoy visiting the modern art galleries as there’s such a varied range of work on display.