Screen Printing

This shows the different ways in which you can achieve a screen print, how to produce a screen print and how to prepare a screen. If the materials were available i think that the block out transfer method. This is due to the fact that i think with this method you would be able to add finer detail into the print as you are not having to do intricate cutting.

Useful textile website

http://www.textilearts.net/directory/

This website has a variety of different textiles artists, covering many different textile techniques. It also has links within it to different websites and blogs that explain techniques and show examples of them also. It makes a good starting point for textile research.

Chatsworth Chairs

I tried taking pictures of different textile things in the house to give me and idea of some patterns and fabrics from around the era of a Rakes Progress. These are the only two pictures containing the textile things that have come out so you car see the detail on them. I can use these to help in my textile sessions and also to help with fabric patterns in costume sessions.

Life Drawing

As we didnt have long to do this piece a picked a close up section of the skeleton, also i didnt want to draw the materials drapped over them. I tryed smudging in the lines to have a flat colour rather than the individual lines. From comparing this and my drawing for last week i prefer the one where I havnt blended any of the mark making together.

Chatsworth Research

I want to use this visit to help me with the Rake's Progress. As the history of chatsworth goes through the 18th century i want to look at the painting and portraits from the relevant era to see what clothing they would have been wearing. I can then use this information and the pictures that i have taken to use it as a basis for the first designs that i will do in my costume sessions.

portraits to look at:
-William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire
-William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
-Katherine Hoskins, Duchess of Devonshire
-Portrait of Lady Charlotte Boyle, Marchioness of Hartington
-Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork

All of these people were alive through the year of 1733, which is the same year as A Rake's Progress was painted, so i particularly want to look at the clothing in these five.

Observational drawing- Rooves

I dont like this piece of work. I think that it looks flat due to the fact that i have used to much black chalk on it. i think to improve this i would have to focus more on shadow and could possibly add a colour in to add some depth. I also think that to do a better observation of this scene i would have to have something with a finer end to add in the bits of detail which i feel are missing.

Roanna Wells

The Quietest Shade of Black

This shows both the full and a close up of Roanna Wells' work. I like the way she uses stitch within her work, using it as a tool for mark making and creating imagry, almost as a substitue for pan and pencil. I would like to use the this way of using stitch to influence some pieces of my life drawing. Using the stitch to create shape, shadow and depth to my pices.


The Quietest Shade of Black detail

Layers of women's 18th century clothing

 

This video shows the order and the layers of womens clothing during the 18th century. Using this I can breakdown the clothing of all the women featured in a Rakes Progress. From looking at this I can take into account all aspects when creating designs for the different characters. Looking at the video I can pick the aspects out that would be associated with the different classes of women to make the costumes more accurate.

3D- Introduction to clay.

In our first session we looked at the properties of clay. The task we were given was to try and make the tallest free standing sculpture. These two are structures just using clay without really strengthening it in anyway. You couldn't build a tall structure like this because of the properties of the clay.

We then tried the coiling technique, which is making long thin tube shapes and spiraling them around to make it look like the piece below, this made it so the structure could be taller as the was it was built made it stronger. For this technique to work better though you have to keep the shape straight or make the base wider than the top.

The other thing that we tried was putting clay around a length of wire. This worked the best out of all the techniques as long as the clay wasn't to heavy for the wire to hold as this causes the wire to bend when you put the clay around it.

Millennium Gallery- Under The Sea

One of the pieces within this exibition is the 'Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef', a communty project. I liked the fact that with this piece of work you could stand back from it, looking at it as a whole, but also you could go close up and see the indiviual sections that people had done and the detail that they had incorporated, crocheting little fish into it etc.

Close up of a section of the whole coral reef

Before a life model.

I think that overall it went okay as I havnt drawn much on this scale since last year. I need to work on the proportions as the head and ribs of the skeleton are to small compared to the pelvis.