One day project!

CLUTTERED??? I spent hours trying to think of a good print to represent clutter, the idea I went with though came to me while walking to college just this morning. Like always Limerick was lashing rain. I looked down at my clothes and noticed how they were cluttered with raindrops, lightbulb..  =) I took a photo or two of different raindrops and went with this one....




I zoomed in on this picture to get the image for my print

Trying out some dry point

I decided to put a transparent green over one of my prints to blend the shapes together. I didn't think this looked well on the print after doing it. I thought the prints needed something more so I tried out some drypoint. At first I judt did the drypoint on a seperate piece of paper. I really liked the way that print turned out. I then put the drypoint over two of the mono prints. After doing this I felt they looked better without the drypoint. 

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I decided to just to trace one of my mono-prints and I came up with a really cool line drawing so I said I'd pop it in here.

Mono-printing

I drew out the picture. I didn't want to just make a replica of the picture so I just did a line drawing of the picture and also left out much of the details. I mono printed the drawing several times using different block colours.

I found I came up with really interesting shapes when creating these monoprints. I liked the way by using the same image for printing but using different colours each time made the prints look really interesting.

PRINT!!

The first elective I'm doing for two weeks is print, and I'm finding it loads of fun. :) We were giving our project brief. At first it sounded like a lot of big words and a lot of confusion, but after sussing it out, it was actually a really nice project. We had to create a print using the theme of our immediate space, a space that defines us.
I brainstormed a bit. I was trying to figure out what space defines me. I then thought, the one thing I always have to have with me is my handbag. Everything I need is always in my handbag!! I emptied everything that was in my handbag at that time onto the table. At first looking at the objects I didn't think they really defined who I was. After looking at all the objects individually I realised they did. I had objects like my camera and my pencil case, showing the artistic and creative side to my personality. There was my notepad, USB, and pens showing how I'm organised. There was my comb, hair clips, and lipstick showing just how overly girly I really am. There was also my keys, fags, phone, lighter, purse and ipod, these were the things I need with me the whole time, my essentials! I was thinking of how to print these. I took photos of them all laid neatly on the table. I took photos of them individually, and I took photos of them randomly thrown in my bag, as they usually are.

I decided to go with the last photo and have them in my bag as they usually are. At first I was going to put apart of the bag in the print, but I then realised it was the actual handbag that defined me, but what was in it.

more shadows!

I made more shadows from the shapes. This time I used Jelly.

For these shadows I used marker on cling film..

making shadows...

After making the light boxes I became really interested in making shadows of the car light shapes. I did this using lots of different ways of creating my shapes.

using black paper....

using fairy liquid on cling film....

making wax and ice sculptures

I wanted to make scluptures of my shapes. I thought these shapes sculpted in a glass-like medium would look really delicate like pieces of jewelary. I made moulds out of clay. I then painted laytex onto the clay to make my moulds for the ice and wax.

    I first tried this using wax. I put coloured thread through the wax pieces. The colours I used represents the car lights. I wanted the piece to imitate the colour of the car light (thread) shining through the glass that protects it (wax). I think these turned out really well. The delicasy of the wax reflects the delicasy of glass. I think the coloured thread comming through the wax look really well.

I then made ice sculptures of the shapes. I made these sculpures smaller as I think they seemed more delicate.

Potatoe Prints!!!

 I wanted to incorporate print into my project! Of course I left it till last minute, so the first thing I thought of was potatoe prints. Doing this was loads of fun and I actully really like the way they turned out!

I was thinking about colour and couldn't decide. I did just plain black and white. I thought the simple black and white colours would reflect on the simplistic idea of potatoe printing.

Bleeching fabric!

Wel this did turn out a bit of a disaster but I said I'd blog it anyway! I tried bleeching fabric in the shapes of the car lights. I don't think my bleech was strong enough and I couldn't draw the shape without the bleech smudging all over the material but I think it turned out....kind of ok!

Making my own car lights!

I was researching and came across these artists that do 'light graffiti'. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
 This is where they create art using lights. I thought this was amazing! Straight away I wanted to create my own car lights but i wasn't sure how to.

When I was taking pictures of my clay light boxes I accidentally moved the camera and got a stream of light comming from the boxes. This looked really like a car light..Bingo! :D I decided to do this using different ways to create my light.

 Here I used poy. Poy are two colourful balls attached to two seperate strings. Circus people swing these two strings in different ways to create amazing light shows. I came up with brillant pictures from using the poy. I think they really resembled car lights.

Here I used two flash lamps and just swang them around the room like a crazy person! Because I used two and they were white I thought the really looked like the headlights of a car.

Here I used two glowsticks to create my light. Although they didn't turn out near as well as the poy or flashlamps, I think they still slighty resembled car lights, and they made some nice light graffiti anyway!





I really enjoyed making my own car lights. I found this the most fasinating part of the project because no matter how hard I tried I could never get the same line or shape twice. I found it exciting not knowing how the pictures would turn out!

Adding a bit more movement to my work!

 I wanted to add more movement to the shapes of the car lights. I think they were starting to get abit stiff and life-less.

I dragged pieces of matieral comming from the shapes like the way a light drags from the car light itself.


I did this using many different mediums like...
Crepe paper and PVA>>








Tissue paper and PVA>>

<<Emroidery thread on black and white paper

<< Chalk pastels on stretched baby wipes





I think this gave the shapes great movement!

the different colours of light...

I was taking photos of cars passing on a wet road. One photo in particular I thought had amazing colours from car and street lights. In this piece Donald maier made car lights illuminate on the page by using pastels.

I tried to do this too using pastels from a photo I took of the traffic on Clare street.

more felt making :)

 With these two pieces of felt I layed the raw wool down in the shapes of the car lights before felting it.

I also used embroidery threads and feathers to mix in with the felt.

I used colours of car and street lights in these pieces.

making some felt :)

I went to the felt work shop that was on at the beginning of the year and made felt for the first time. I loved making felt and knew straight away I had to incorporate it into my project. On the day of the workshop I made different pieces of felt using the colours of carlights.

One of these I cut up in to pieces and formed one of the shapes of the carlights from it.

After the workshop I did this again lying the felt up against raw wool.

TOO MUCH COLOUR!!!!

I think I was getting carried away with colour. My sketchbook was starting to look a little too rainbow like, and it was driving me mad! I photocopied some of my sketchbook to see what things would look like in black and white.

I was really glad I did this. It made me notice the line of the shapes more and how the colour over powered them alot!

I began to re-draw the shapes in different ways but at the same time only using black and white. I needed a break from colour for a while.

I realised just a small amount of colour or pastel like, simple colours looked better than bright colours all thrown together. It made it all a little less chaotic and made it all about the shape.

PVA and crepe paper...

I was playing around more with threads and crepe paper using the colours of car lights against a black background.









I splashed abit of pva glue mixed with water on these to see what would happen. I loved the way it blended the colours of the crepe paper and crinkled the black sugar paper. I want to make a sort of 3D out of this.

I did this piece. I found the pva on top of crepe paper made an amazing texture. I  loved the way the colours blended together like the way the colours of the car lights blend together.

I did three seperate pieces of the shapes of the car lights in crepe and pva. I joined them so one shape would blend into another, like the way car lights blend into eachother.