1.2.6 Printing (1)

Before my first all day session in the print room,  I had experienced a half day; within which I produced a rather rushed sample. I learnt from this bad episode and have consequently made a plan for my all day session.

Day Plan

Due to my plan I was able to complete four good samples, that were printed on pre-prepared tie dye and hand painted manutex designs. Seeing all my samples together I can identify that some match better than others. Despite this slight mismatch I am very happy with the colours of the prints; I had deicide from the outset that I would only use the dominant colours from my colour theme for the screen prints, as there are far too many colours to make all of them. The dominant colours being variations of blue and a dark purple.

First Successful Screen Prints

1.2.5 Colour Theme

Colour Theme

Essential now to continuing my project is my colour theme, thus I have included it in my blog. I chose this image due to its wide yet narrow colour selection, most of this photo is made up of shades of blue with small amount of yellow, red and green giving an overall relaxed calm mood.

1.2.4 Designing Motifs

When I developed my motifs I incorporated the advice given during a group tutorial; this session informed us on the importance of variety. Ergo in my final motifs I used both line and opaque shapes alongside different perimeter forms. I also tried to use different scales during my composition designs, that would all in turn give more interesting possibilities for screen prints.

Beginning Stages

When I was choosing my motifs from my previous work I naturally took into account the above points; but I also wanted to add more variety through the drawing style. Up to this point most of my work was very precise and representational, which was helpful when designing making illustrator motifs, But I was eager to implement work that I had found with potential for mark making as this helped to added an extra sense of diversity to my motifs.

Final Screen Motif Composition

1.2.3 Developing a Theme

During the Christmas holidays I focused my efforts to developing a theme that would link well to my research and engross me through out the unit. I ended my mini investigation with a theme of Travel.

Inspirational Pieces

In the bottom right of my image collage I have featured the artist Eeadweard Muybridge. His work is displayed at The Manchester Museum and was one of the first artists that inspired me to select my theme. Muybridge shows a fascination with travel and motion in a scientific respect while presenting an artistic time capturing stop motion sequence.

As I continued to draw during the holidays and produced this, left hand-side, wheels drawing. This represents the first ten wheels I saw during a walk and subsequently reminded me of Todd McLellan due to this puzzle like composition, this disciplined characteristic is a feature I would like to incorporate into my travel project. I think that this layout would again link my work to Muybridge's by adding a sense of maturity and mathematics to my designs.

1.2.2 Interpreting Data

After receiving the brief of Data I have spent the first to weeks of print dedicated to drawing. Within these weeks I have been introduced to different ways data can be interpreted and visualised.

Various ways of interpreting data

The top right image was a a task set by my tutors, whereby we were assigned three words remove, rearrange and reassemble and told to interpret them in our own way. This unusual task gave me inspiration to the many different ways data cab be gather and recorded.

After the vinyl work we repeated the exercise with a hole punch and were encouraged to photograph the pieces after creation, this method also enlighten me to scale and how subjects can change depending upon there presentation.

The task that interested me the most was a homework task to create our own version of a one-hundred meter drawing. I responded to this task by making three-dimensional shapes who's surface area amounted to 10,000 cm squared in other words 100 meters. My chose of subject was influenced by the unconventional data tasks set by my tutors, and this unique thinking is an aspect that i would like to develop into my project.