Paper wig; Finished

I have eventually finished the paper wig which I started well before christmas. I just need tophotograph it properly so that I can use it as part of my portfolio.

Derek Gores

A follow up to are first designing session that we have done I did some research into artists that use collage to create their art pieces and designs.

These are just two of Derek Gores' work. In these he has used parts of magazines to create the figures and the clothing that they are wearing. I think that it look really effective but would take a while to complete each piece. I think its something that I could defiantly use in the future to help improve my designs.

Sandrine Pelletier- Wild Boys

For are next textile seesion we are doing designs but using stitch rather than pen and pencil on paper. I wanted to look at artist that use this technique to give me an idea of what you can do with the stitch to create designs.

These are part of Sandrine Pelletier work titled 'Wild Boys', 2002-2004

Brad the Rat

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I prefer the bottom picture for the visual of it but I dont know whether the top on or maybe a mixture of the two. I think that this would work beter as with having the designs like the bottom of the two images some of the design might get lost in the loose threads.



Screen Printing

I used the basics of the pattern that I had cut out for the lino print to base my screen printing on. Rather than it just being one piece though I wanted to layer it so that the flowers and the background pattern could be two different colours.

These are the two layers of sencil that I used to create my textile designs. I took the two main elements of my lino print and seperated them into two layers to get to these two stencils.

paper version

fabric version

I think that out of these two the paper one has come out the best. I dont think that either of them has worked very well as the print isnt flat, parts of it are patchy and the stencils have moved in sections of the print. I would have to change the paints that I use because the pigment of the red paint came through the black, whereas I wanted it to look like the black flowers were ontop of the red. I would also, if this was a final fabric, would clean the screens better before I use them as I think that might have had a part to play in the print no coming out as well as I wanted.  





 

Lino Print

This shows the pattern that I cut into my block before I started printing with it.
For the design I took inspriation from this piece of work by Paul Morrison, which features in his exhibition in the Millenium Gallery.


 I created a block so that when i printed them next to each other the print would carry on, looking like a repeat pattern. This one I did was on black suger paper with bright red printing ink. I dont think that this one has worked well because the colours havnt turned out as bright as i would have wanted. The print has also absorbed into the paper therefor the edges arent as sharp as i would want the to be.



For the other two samples used I printing inks on white fabrics. I was hoping that using a fabric would mean that the print would not bleed as  much therefor it would be shaper. I initally tryed some prints out on a cream coloured material, I found that the colours werent as bright as i wanted on this either. The piece below shows another print that i did on white fabric.

I think that this one works the only thing that i would do would be too look at the amount of ink i have on the stamp if i didnt want to have the faded sections on it. The final one that i tryed in this session was to do a black prin like this but to then layer another print of red ontop of it.

I dont think that I managed to do enough of this print to see whether it would work. You can also see on this that on one of the printed sections i had to much ink on the block and therefor it has all bled and you cant tell what the print should be.

Paper wig making

These show the start of the wig that i am making.

For our wigs we had to choose a character from a Rakes Progress or a Harlots progress. I have chosen the character of Mary Hackabout for mine. I have chosen her as i can make a big eccentric wig for her for when she became a prostitute.
I need to do some more research into 18th century wigs, this would give me more of an idea of the styles and shapes that the wigs would have been.

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.

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