Art and design update

A quick update on some of the art work I have been producing in the past few weeks...the workshops were Textiles and Printmaking, both of which were interesting and fun. In Textiles I had to research Claire aka Grayson Perry and find a connection with trains.....?  so some way down the line...sorree....I decided on a screen print of a train( first time I have done screenprinting - great )so produced a stencil and printed it off in different colours on different materials.  I then embellished this with a cloud, a flowering tree and a signal with freehand embroidery,and the finished result is.......a cushion.

 The other item I made was a shoe - which looked a bit like the front of the Bullet train but was also embellished as Grayson Perry does with a lot of his art.  It was quite difficult to make and used quite a bit of ingenuity!

In Printmaking, we again did some research into people like Rauschenberg, Hokusai and others and had explained the fundamentals of lino cuts, dry etching and screen printing.  I tried all three - lino cuts of course print in reveerse so numbers and letters need careful consideration! After screen printing, I then dry etched a dragon onto these, and also cut up some of the original screen prints and created further artwork which could become prints in the future. All really interesting as I had never done this before.  What do you think?

 this is one of the screen prints onto which I have then printed a lino print of the number 5 in Chinese/Japanese kanji.

 Again one of the original screen prints onto which I have printed a dry etching of a dragon which came from a design on one of my mother's old dressing gowns!

 

This is a new design with elements of the original screen printing together with parts of a map of Tokyo and complementary colour strips.

Again original screen print plus Tokyo map plus kanji character...perhaps a mountain with a river flowing through it?








An ongoing project is the Friday probject - something to keep us out of mischief on Fridays when we are not in college but should be doing something art related.  The project is to be presented at our assessments in 10 days time - An idea popped into my head which was to do the numbers 1 - 9 (there being 9 Fridays) - so I have been racking my brains for different things to do for each number......more to follow on this one!