Green = Hope Purple = Dignity White = Purity
Monday, 2 June 2014
printmaking...block 2
For my final print idea, I took the idea for the colours from the suffrajet colours...green, purple and white.
Green = Hope Purple = Dignity White = Purity
A beautiful protest poster with the suffrajet colours
My final designs for text and background of my notes...I had them framed with the final dry points over the top of these and framed with a brief handwritten description underneath about this note.
Green = Hope Purple = Dignity White = Purity
Printmaking...Block 2...
As I said in my previous post, I was looking into feminism and its origins and the ongoing fight for equality in the workplace...
I found some wonderful and harrowing photographs of Emmeline Pankhurst, her daughters and the suffrajet movement.
A Suffrajet being arrested by two male authority figures in 1914 for protesting for womens rights
Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst, Emmeline's Daughters, with a large banner
Emmeline Pankhurst herself, being restrained both physically and mentally by the male authority figures of the time
I found some wonderful and harrowing photographs of Emmeline Pankhurst, her daughters and the suffrajet movement.
A Suffrajet being arrested by two male authority figures in 1914 for protesting for womens rights
Printmaking...BLOCK 2...research continued...
As I am planning on using screen printing as part of my final design, I had started looking into screen printers and their works.
Having also been looking at some of the advances in feminism from campaigning for women to have the right to vote to what it means now, I felt I should mention that I found it very difficult to find female screen printers via the Google search facility...I found way more male printers in my initial search and wondered about the right to equal pay we are supposed to have in the workplace.
I feel that even although we are told that there are regulations in place to make sure there is equal pay and treatment of the sexes in the workplace, the reality still remains one of an un equal workplace.
Thoughout my research in my sketchbook, I did mention artist Kiki Smith...She produces lovely screen prints with a very graphic appearance to them, mainly working in black and white with handmade papers, I particularly like her work, but already knew about this female artist, I was quite disappointed to have to struggle so much with finding female printers...
Kiki Smith...Lucy's Daughter...1992...screenprint on handmade paper
Having also been looking at some of the advances in feminism from campaigning for women to have the right to vote to what it means now, I felt I should mention that I found it very difficult to find female screen printers via the Google search facility...I found way more male printers in my initial search and wondered about the right to equal pay we are supposed to have in the workplace.
I feel that even although we are told that there are regulations in place to make sure there is equal pay and treatment of the sexes in the workplace, the reality still remains one of an un equal workplace.
Thoughout my research in my sketchbook, I did mention artist Kiki Smith...She produces lovely screen prints with a very graphic appearance to them, mainly working in black and white with handmade papers, I particularly like her work, but already knew about this female artist, I was quite disappointed to have to struggle so much with finding female printers...
PRINTMAKING...research...BLOCK 2
So the research for screen printing continues...This time I've been looking at commemorative bank notes, there really is no limit to their designs, and importantly the display of these pieces.
Princess Diana commemorative bank note and above certificate of authenticity...
The displaying of them seems to vary, but the main approach seems to be a mounted note on a dark background with a small plaque or sometimes handwritten note of important information, like designer, bank and date of release.
Above is an Australian £1 banknote circa 1949 framed with detail in type about the above note...this is how I would like to display my notes after I've come up with the final design...
I will base my design and display of it on the examples I have in the research section of my sketchbook, and photographic research I've done too.
The displaying of them seems to vary, but the main approach seems to be a mounted note on a dark background with a small plaque or sometimes handwritten note of important information, like designer, bank and date of release.
I will base my design and display of it on the examples I have in the research section of my sketchbook, and photographic research I've done too.
Wednesday, 23 April 2014
integrated project things and stuff...BLOCK 2
As i have spoken a bit about my other projects and classes i am currently working on, i will now take you through some of my integrated project. I am working on a project which started off as a possible 3D sculpture but has taken a dramatic turn into a stop motion film instead!
I realised that i'm not the best at sculpting and i also enjoy creating stop motion films much more than sculpting...i also felt that the video option fitted my concept far better than a sculpture would.
My research has led me to looking at birds, in flocks, and more specifically now starlings...i've also been experimenting with various ways of animating images on screen.
splattered pink ink on a hand drawn young starling...
I was also lucky enough to meet the camera less filmmaker Steven Woloshen at an exhibition and workshop celebrating the Scottish stop motion filmmaker Norman McLaren, and managed to acquire some blank 35mm film...which i have used some to paint and draw with inks onto...
washing...watery ink painted onto 35mm film, left to dry and scored into with a fine needle point.
I had to work it out in my sketch book...
I realised that i'm not the best at sculpting and i also enjoy creating stop motion films much more than sculpting...i also felt that the video option fitted my concept far better than a sculpture would.
I was left with this cut out from the paper birds i had made...
ink on photocopies of hand drawn starlings...
I was also lucky enough to meet the camera less filmmaker Steven Woloshen at an exhibition and workshop celebrating the Scottish stop motion filmmaker Norman McLaren, and managed to acquire some blank 35mm film...which i have used some to paint and draw with inks onto...
petals...pink ink on 35mm film
scrubbed...black sharpie on 35mm film
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
blogging my heart out...TEXTILES...workshop1...papermaking...BLOCK 2
Here we go again...this time i'm gonna be talking mainly about my activities in textiles class. We have been doing some pretty cool workshops of late and i thought i could share some of these with you too...
Let me see...to start with we got to try making some paper. I was particularly interested in this as i'd only ever seen it done on a massive scale before and that was just on the telly, so...
I blended some old random scraps of paper that had already been used and rejected for other purposes, this old paper was mixed with lots of water and then poured into a big bucket, it was not the most appealing of mixtures...it just looked like a big bucket of spew to be honest...I then had to reach into it with a wooden framed fine mesh then turn them out, like a cake from a baking tray, onto absorbent cloths, usually used for cleaning up worktops and such, and then...from this ugly mix i was able to make some lovely paper.
Instead of reusing old paper you can also make paper from just about anything that you can blend, for example fibrous fruits and vegetables and plants or flowers...you can put things into the mix to make it more interesting like whole seeds, stalks, grasses, leafs and pretty petals...
and here is the product of my labour...a layered piece of paper made using lots of small frames and blended paper in 2 colours, then let to dry on top of each other so they fused...
Not bad for a first attempt?!
Let me see...to start with we got to try making some paper. I was particularly interested in this as i'd only ever seen it done on a massive scale before and that was just on the telly, so...
I blended some old random scraps of paper that had already been used and rejected for other purposes, this old paper was mixed with lots of water and then poured into a big bucket, it was not the most appealing of mixtures...it just looked like a big bucket of spew to be honest...I then had to reach into it with a wooden framed fine mesh then turn them out, like a cake from a baking tray, onto absorbent cloths, usually used for cleaning up worktops and such, and then...from this ugly mix i was able to make some lovely paper.
Instead of reusing old paper you can also make paper from just about anything that you can blend, for example fibrous fruits and vegetables and plants or flowers...you can put things into the mix to make it more interesting like whole seeds, stalks, grasses, leafs and pretty petals...
and here is the product of my labour...a layered piece of paper made using lots of small frames and blended paper in 2 colours, then let to dry on top of each other so they fused...
new project...PRINTMAKING...BLOCK 2
Ok...so...here is some stuff I've been working on for the past month or so.
After a bit of a turbulent start to the year again, I'm trying to become a little more focused in my efforts to blog about my work...something I've never felt i was really any good at, but maybe through pictures of things i can show you what I've been up to and how i'm progressing with my BA...
Let us start with some printmaking then...
I've been working on creating a protest piece. The subject I've chosen is women on bank notes.
It's something that astounds me. When i found out the fact that british bank notes only have one woman at a time on them, if any at all. Whats going on there?! was my thought...Why not have more than one woman on our bank notes at a time, this country has produced hundreds and hundreds of brilliant, successful, groundbreaking women...oh and I'm not counting the queen here all you smarty pants! What would happen if Emmeline Pankhusrt and Viviane Westwood were on UK bank notes at the same time...would the world implode?! I think not.
So with that in mind here are a few first attempts at screen printing after a long break from it...it truly is an enjoyable thing, going through the process of printing things, like a Japanese tea ceremony the joy is in the ritualistic processes of printing, the things leading up to the final movement...
Another go at it, this time with a colour change to white for the fine line drawing and a slight change in its position...i'm quite pleased with the outcome this time though.
After a bit of a turbulent start to the year again, I'm trying to become a little more focused in my efforts to blog about my work...something I've never felt i was really any good at, but maybe through pictures of things i can show you what I've been up to and how i'm progressing with my BA...
Let us start with some printmaking then...
I've been working on creating a protest piece. The subject I've chosen is women on bank notes.
It's something that astounds me. When i found out the fact that british bank notes only have one woman at a time on them, if any at all. Whats going on there?! was my thought...Why not have more than one woman on our bank notes at a time, this country has produced hundreds and hundreds of brilliant, successful, groundbreaking women...oh and I'm not counting the queen here all you smarty pants! What would happen if Emmeline Pankhusrt and Viviane Westwood were on UK bank notes at the same time...would the world implode?! I think not.
So with that in mind here are a few first attempts at screen printing after a long break from it...it truly is an enjoyable thing, going through the process of printing things, like a Japanese tea ceremony the joy is in the ritualistic processes of printing, the things leading up to the final movement...
A wee picture of the acetates used to expose my screen, a clean line drawing and a darker watercolour from a life drawing class.
First attempt at printing my pictures...an uneven outcome but not without its charms!
Another go at it, this time with a colour change to white for the fine line drawing and a slight change in its position...i'm quite pleased with the outcome this time though.
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