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
Sunday, 31 May 2015
Friday, 22 May 2015
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
Thursday, 21 May 2015
Poster Timeline
1880s
Out-of-Home
By Jack Rennent
Poster Auctions International
Out-of-Home
By Jack Rennent
Poster Auctions International
1890s
Tournee du Chat Noir by Theophile Steinlen (1898)
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)
Geneve, Fete Des Fleurs (1927)
1930s
World’s Fair, New York (1939)
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)
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
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
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
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
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
Playing around with text, size, font etc...
Duplicating layers to test out different versions
Final shot of poster
Tuesday, 19 May 2015
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
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
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
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
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