My Work

This is my final piece outcome, its not quite finished yet but I've happy with this work I produced as I was struggling a bit at the start not knowing what I would create for my final piece. It wasn't till I came across Andreas Preis work was when My idea was inspired. Only thing I would change possibly would maybe try machine stitch as it might of made it look niter but also took less time. 

Found Blog

A blog that interested me was Laura McKellar

http://www.lauramckellar.blogspot.co.uk/

Also This Artist work inspired my work

http://blog.patternbank.com/andreas-preis-landyachtz-longboards/

ICT COSHH

Things to consider being sat at a deck for long periods of time.

1. Trailing wires: So you don't cause any accidents or plugs get pulled out of sockets
2. Taking regular breaks: About 5-10 minute breaks every hour so you not stuck in front of the computer which can be just going to the printer
3. No Drinks or Food: No foods or drink around computers as you can easily knock over a drink or make the keyboard sticky from food
4. Screen position: Make sure your eyes look down slightly at the screen because it can cause strain on the eyes
5. Keyboard: Make sure it supports your wrists and forearms and are comfortable
6. Backrest: Make sure you is supported and sat up straight as you could get serious back problems
7. Height of chair: Make sure level with the table and can easily rest you arms on the deck and your feet touch the floor

Lino COSHH

- When using the cutting tool keep you other hand away (can easily slip)

- Careful with the thickness of cutting out as you can easily go through

- Make sure you cut out the right parts when it come to printing

How:

1. Choose the right size lino piece for your work
2. Draw or trace on a image onto the lino
3. then with your lino tool (which has different blades for thickness) cut away the parts of the image you don't want to print 
4. then roll out some ink and roll it onto the lino
5. once you completely cover the lino get some paper and put it through the press

Health&Safety with creating samples

First sample:

Used- hand stitch, heat press, textured materials

When making my first sample i used the heat press to create a bright background to match a sunset themed background. Once I was happy with the colours I then stitch in to my piece creating a city landscape. To add more detail I added a textured material to match a type of building material and stitch that in to my piece.

Second Sample;

Used- Hand stitch, heat press, textured materials

My second sample was quite similar to the first one but I changed up the background colours and used a different textured material to try out a different version.

Last sample:

Used- felt, hand stitch, wire

Finally in my last sample I created my out felt piece background to start with following the colour background theme. Also stitching in the city landscape but adding in wire to my making the outline of the buildings


COSHH

Hand stitch

• Careful with the needle 
• Needle can easily break if not used properly
• Hands away from the needle can easily stab yourself
• Make sure your using the right for the right materials 
• Don't walk around with the needle
• Put the needle where you can see it if you put it down
• keep work area tidy

Heat Press

• Make sure cables are not on the floor 
• Careful of the top plate can get warm
• Keep hands away when using as you can burn yourself
• Make sure its at the right temperature
• make sure the lid is clapped down right 

Wire

• Careful when molding
• use tools to help
• Wire can be sharp

Contemporary Artist and Historical Artist

Contemporary Artist: http://www.textileartist.org/5-leading-textile-artists-inspired-by-nature/

Lesley Richmond

Tree/Forest Series
White Forest Forest
168cm x 81cm

• English textile artist
• Widely-represented textile artists around the world
• Main inspiration is natural forms
• Inspired by trees and forests
• "Photography skills, snapping pictures of trees and forests. Then she had them printed on the fibers, editing them to filter out the background"

Historical Artist: http://www.textileartist.org/manipulate-construct-embelish-nigel-cheney/

Nigel Cheney

• BA in Textiles
• Commendation in Art History
• Produced unusual textile art (Fashion, Interior and gallery's)
• Combines historical techniques with contemporary digital media, (blackwork, voiding, appliqué, and hand stitches with transfer prints and hand painted cloth )

theses artist are very different textiles artist as they use different mediums within textiles. Lesley Richmond uses Photos and print fibers on top where as Nigel Cheney uses historical techniques like hand stitch into prints. Also Lesley's work main focus is natural where as Nigel's work has animals and people in. 

Screen Printing

Process:

1- Tape up around the edges of the frame and any parts of the screen you do not want to print

2- Cover your working area with newspaper

3- Lay your paper you will print onto your table

4- Apply the ready mixed pigments close to the area you want to print but not on the design

5- Ensure someone can firmly hold down the screen

6- Pull the squeegees at 45 degree angle towards you using a firm even pressure

7- Carefully remove the screen from the paper underneath

8- Take you print away and allow it to dry on the drying rack

9- Take the tape off your screen, put any excess ink back into the pot and wash out the screen.


Health&Safety

-  Keep room ventilated

-  Do not inhale the pigments/chemicals

-  Keep the room clean and tidy

Logo illustrator work

Different Stages of logo

Clay H&S

COSHH Health and Safety:

1. Always use a wet sponge/cloth to clean up surfaces

2. Always have a clean aprons on

3. Make sure you use well ventilated clay, so it not to dry 

4. Dry to create less dust as possible, so don't shake aprons or dust of surfaces

Clay contains crystalline silica which is chemically combined with other materials. It can give you bad health risk when Clay drys out and is dust as when you inhale it goes into your lungs which can course problems.

Stages of Clay

- Slurry

Watered down clay

- Plastic

Moulding stage and join things together

- Leather Hard

Stage when it holds its hold

-GreenWare

Dry, can be craved into

- Bisqueware

Fired and the stage to glaze

- Earthenware

2nd glaze low fire

- Stoneware

2nd fire high fire

Poster Timeline

1880s
Out-of-Home
By Jack Rennent
Poster Auctions International

1890s
Tournee du Chat Noir by Theophile Steinlen (1898)

1990s

Doncaster First Aviation Air Show (1909)

1910s

US propaganda

This poster is to promote the marines and to get people to join up and serve for there country

1920s
Geneve, Fete Des Fleurs (1927)

1930s
World’s Fair, New York (1939)

1940s

Seven-Up Co.’s War Bonds – Looke, Mom, I c’n Buy a Bond (1944)

1950s
Monaco Grand Prix by B. Minne (1952)

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s
Message is promotion of film and purpose is to get people to watch the film

2010
message of this poster is a new exciting action film is out and its a must see and purpose is to get people to watch the film
Jul 12th, 2010
"HePhotography by Nels Israelson
"He's got time to kill."
ghpj

Working on Illustrator

 Filling in block colours with the "live paint bucket"

 Playing around with text, size, font etc...

 Duplicating layers to test out different versions

Final shot of poster

Textiles

Textiles is fabric based materials, so anything that can be stitched, knitted, hand machine stitched.

Louise Baldwin

"Connections are made between the most seemingly random things, cell structures, pattern, text and mark"

Hilary Beattie

"Passions are colour, form and imagery"

http://www.arttextilesmadeinbritain.co.uk/the-artists.html

Art Nouveau & Abstract Expressiomism & Dada

Art Nouveau:

Definition- Its a style of decorative art and architecture. This design was prominent in western Europe and the USA from about 1890 until the First World War. Its characterized by intricate linear designs and flowing curves based on natural forms.

Artists- Alphonse Mucha, Aubrey Beardsley,Gustav Klimt and the American glass-maker Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Was replaced by the Art Deco Style

Abstract Expressionism:

Definition- It was a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.

Artists- Jackson Pollock, Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still, Franz Kline, Hans Hofmann, Robert Motherwell and Barnett Newman

Dada:

Definition- It was an artistic and literary movement that began in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I, and the nationalism, and rationalism.

Artists- Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Andre Breton, Hans Arp, Tristan Tzara, Kurt Schwitters, Hugo Ball and Hannah Hoch

Val Britton

Val Britton
Born in Livingston, New Jersey and attended Rhode Island School of Design where she received her B.F.A.She earned her M.F.A. from California College of the Arts. Her work is held in public collections including the New York Public Library, the New-York Historical Society, the Library of Congress, and the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts/ Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. 

"Initially, I began this body of work as a way to connect to my father, a long haul cross-country truck driver who died when I was young. Based on road maps, routes my father often traveled, and an invented conglomeration and fragmentation of those passageways, my works on paper help me piece together the past and make up the parts I cannot know"

These mixed media abstractions map not only physical locations but also psychological and emotional spaces. Connecting paper fragments together through collage, drawing, painting, staining, printing, stitching and cutting paper have become my methods for navigating the blurry terrain of memory and imagination. 


Thin Places 2014

Graphite, Ink, and Collage on Paper

72' h x 96' w

My work

Response to Steven Irwin

3D Work-PsychoGeography