Context Sheet

After evaluating my prints, I decided that it would be an interesting idea to create a blind for the new building, as my project is mainly about light. Blinds would be the most fitting as they either let light through or stop light from coming through the window. Therefore I looked at some different varieties of blinds to see which would suit both the building and my designs.

After I had looked at these I tried my designs over the top of some internet pictures of blinds to see how it would look. 

I feel that this design for a blind like this if far too dark.

  Personally I think that the darker design works much better on this style of blind.

                      

Overall I think that the lighter design with the mainly white background works much better as a blind, as it looks lighter and fits in better as an interior.

Large Scale Work

I created this image using the mark making techniques I looked at earlier. I think the A1 image was very successful the marks did translate well into large scale, and I believe they created some very interesting textures.  

 I used spray paint on A1 black paper to create the following two images. I was very pleased with the outcome, the spay paint gave the fuzzy outline I was wanting to achieve (just like the patches of light in the photos). Also the vibrant colours against the black background made them look more luminous. 

I also looked at mark making in my A3 book (underneath), however I don't think these were as successful.

C.V

Stephanie Hall

Date of Birth: 21/07/92

Education: Morley High School, 12 GCSES’s ranging from B to C and 3 A Levels in Art, History and Maths.

                   Leeds College of Art, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design

Previous employment:- I currently work part time at Clarks shoes where I have worked since September 2008.I have trained to become a fully qualified children’s shoe fitter. This has helped with my confidence massively, I can now handle a variety of customers even small children and help them select the product that they need. It has also helped my time management and I now have more initiative with what to do in situations that occur in the working environment. I am also a trusted member of staff and have been trained to do refunds and put away stock. I enjoy my job and feel I am a hard and effective worker.

Career aspirations: I am currently studying Textiles at Manchester Metropolitan University where I hope to obtain a degree in textiles in practice. After this I hope to work in the area of printed textiles possible designing prints on fabrics for interior or fashion.

Hobbies and Interests: I am very interested in design and art work, I often visit art galleries and read design magazines. Last year I went to Paris and looked around several art galleries whilst I was there, I feel that this trip broadened my creative knowledge immensely and I enjoyed my time there greatly. 

Blog Task

My initial expectations for the project were to produce several print samples which connected to my theme, summer and winter, and mainly focused on floral patterns. I feel that I did manage to produce plenty of samples in print using the different processes shown to us.  However I have neglected the amount of drawings I have produced slightly, and I think that it would benefit my work to produce more.

I chose the print workshop because I have been in it previously and enjoyed it, therefore I wanted to try it at an intermediate level to allow me to progress further and learn some more different methods of printing. I also felt that I would be able to link my chosen theme into print well.  During the print workshop I have used my sketch book to create design ideas for my screen, I have also used it to do my colour studies and tests to see which colours to use for my prints.

Underneath is some of the colour work I produced to help me make an iformed decision for the colours to use in my design.

Looking at the design I have created and the way the colours have turned out on the fabric I have come up with plenty of ideas of how to move my project on.

 

I am considering looking into Indian and African textiles and the patterns and colours used in this area of work. Because my samples have very intense colours I intend to present them with this in mind, I want to put them together in groups which best make the individual colours come out.

If I were to start the project again I would give myself more time to come up with a design for my screen. I would have liked to have been able to retrieve many more drawings straight from flowers, allowing me to get a grasp on the shape and colours etc which would have given me a more informed decision when it came to the flowers I used on my design for my screen.



Given the time I would have produced more work like the above.

The contextual references which I used helped my with ideas for colours, as I looked at the way they used colour in their work compared to the colours I was planning on using to see what the colours would look like when put into design rather than just been on a sample.  

 It is also interesting to look at the work of other people in my print group as you can often see people doing things in a different way to how you would do them, this then allows you try out different methods, and it can give you ideas for your own work when you have looked at others.

During the project I have achieved several samples which even though produced in the same way using the same design have very different qualities. I didn’t expect at the beginning of the project for this to happen I thought I would end up with several very similar samples, however I think each of mine are unique, although they do all have a common theme and look well as a group, which I am very proud of.



As I am aiming to create some kind of printed textile for my final outcome I decided to put one of my images onto a screen and create some prints. Before deciding on which image I wanted to use in print I looked at several of the pictures, I split the colours up into four separate layers using acetate pieces, so that I could see how the colours would look when layered up in print.

 

I decided that the above image was the on which I wanted to use, as I feel that it looked the most effective. Below are the prints I came up with.

  I was very pleased with the outcome, however I think they may look better if the image I used had been slightly more abstract.

After I had created my A1 drawing I then made some more in a similar drawings in an A3 sketch book.

 Although I am happy with how these have turned out, I felt that they could be improved by considering the mark making a little more. Therefore I decided to look at mark making a little more in my book before I drew any more large scale images.

 These are the marks I came up with, I feel that these marks would translate very well into some large scale work.

Unit X

Initial Ideas

For this unit I have decided to look at a pub in Manchester called the Courtyard, I have started by looking at the colours caused by the light in the Courtyard as the main reason I enjoy going to the Courtyard is because of the nice atmosphere created.  As I am interested in the colours I altered some of the photos I had tack from inside the pub, to make the colours in the photos more vibrant.  

  


These are the photos I altered, I was very pleased with how they turned out.

The most prominant colours have been brougt out and are now much brighter. I have tried to mix the colous in the photos at the side using gouache paint, however it is difficult to capture the same vibrancy.

I then tried out some different media to create the coulour.

After this I decided that using black paper and pastles was the best way to achieve the effect I wanted. As the colours stood out well also i could achieve the patches of light by smuding and blending them.

Once I had done this I created some drawings from the photos, I only coppied a small section of the image to give a more abstact feel, as i thought this would be quite interesting.

Although I was happy with how these drawings turned out I felt that they would be much more interesting on a larger scale. Therefore I created a similar drawing on some A1 black paper.

Evaluation

I have developed my work during this project by slightly altering the theme, to make my work more interesting and to allow me to generate more complex ideas. I have also developed it by gathering more research to work with, for example drawings and photos which I then used to create more designs. I can then have several designs to choose from allowing me to edit out the best ones.

I often evaluate my work either on my blog or in my sketch book this allows me to make a clear decision on which ideas are working well and which ones I should not take any further. This evaluation processes also helps me to think of new ideas and ways to move old ones on further.

During this project I feel that I have realised that my best work is always flat designs either drawn designs or Photoshop pieces, and that colour and shape are a large part of my work, which had helped me to discover that I would be best placed doing printed textiles as a pose to more three dimensional textured work. I have also learnt that Photoshop will be very useful to me in the future especially during the design process. As it allows you to try out ideas for the designs without been too final, it also allows you to merge drawn work with digital work (something I am very interested in, in my own work).

Throughout this project I have use contextual research to help me both during my print and DIM workshops. Looking at other artists work gives me inspiration for my own work, it has also in this project especially helped me think more about my colour pallet and which colours are used regularly in design. For example I looked at Osborne and Little’s wallpaper design and focused on which two or three main colours they had used in their separate pieces, which gave me an understanding of which colours would work well together in my own print work.

Although I have enjoyed this project and feel that I have worked well, I think that I could have managed my time much better which would have allowed me to create a larger body of work. Because I have done most of my work at home rather than using the studio and I feel that it is easier to create more work faster in a studio environment than at home. Therefore next time I think it would be beneficial for me to spend time in the studio working independently not just going in for the timetabled workshops. However I feel that I managed my time in the workshops (print workshop especially) very well as it was often busy and took time waiting to use equipment but I always managed to get something done whilst waiting.

Overall I feel that this project has gone well and I am very happy with my work that has come out of it, I have enjoyed this theme much more than my previous theme and I am glad we were given more freedom on choosing our theme. Although I feel that I could have worked faster which would have allowed me to develop my work further this is something I intend to work on for the next project.

Maija Louekarkari

I like the way this piece has a drawn effect to it, I also like the way the shapes have been layered up and slightly overlapped.

Maja Sten

I like the complexity of this piece, and the variety of colours used. The shapes used in the work give the impression of some kind of exlpotion.

Beata Boucht

Beata Boucht's work interests me as I like how depth is achieved, through the use of layering.

DIM workshop

These are the best outcomes of my work in DIM wprkshop.

 

Sampling: Printworkshop

These are the most successful of my samples form the print workshop.

 



Mark making task

For this workshop we were asked to create a series of tools to work with, as a pose to using more traditional methods of drawing, in the hope that we would achieve some more interesting marks.

I was very pleased with the outcome of these marks as the shapes are interesting and they also resemble flowers which keeps with my theme. I created the left mark with hexagon headed pin, and the marks on the right with srcunched up material.

I was also happy with how these two turned out, however they are not as closley linked with my theme.

I then used the tools to create textures for the background of some larger drawings. I am very pleased with the outcome of these drawings.