02/11/2019
Today was the beginning of our 'Your London' print project, I'm quite excited for this project because print is something I've always been interested in and never had the opportunity to do in depth, this project also was a nice break from the multiples project as it would be more drawing and mark making based initially and then i can integrate different materials and textures into the project. I got Finsbury park as my area of London to base my project on and I was really inspired. Its similar to my area of London in the fact that there is a lot of multiculturalism. After researching about the area I found that there is a large homeless population that lives under a bridge on Grange Hill road , so i started drawing from their shelters and I found some interesting shapes which I added to my shape menu. I also looked at store fronts and mannequin heads in hair shops, I found that making a shape menu and a texture menu really benefited me in identifying my favourite elements from my drawings.
One of my preconceptions for this print project was that everything would have to be flat, but from the image manipulation work shop we did I can apply my prints to 3D techniques to make them more interesting, I think that I have made a good start to the project and I'm actually quite excited to move onto lino printing tomorrow.
Adobe colour workshop
03/11/2019
For our Lino printing session today, I picked out my favourite shapes from my sketches of Finsbury park, I found that I was picking out really fine details rather than big structures, so that I could build them up and create more abstract prints. I really liked the shape of the shutters in store fronts and translated onto a sheet of lino, I also really liked a the shape of signage on store fronts which is leading me in a more graphic approach to this project. I really enjoyed creating lino prints, I think it is an easy way to create collages and really explored layering , in some of my samples I was trying to create a simple repeat pattern but I started to become interested in creating a narrative and I wanted to recreate the everyday scenes of Finsbury park by using my lions to create an abstract version of the pictures I took.
We also experimented with transfer inks and paper, during the actual workshop I didn't create many because I didn't think the outcome of the patterns were as successful as the lino because there was no texture. Its a technique that we used in Sixth form a lot and I never managed to make it look professional enough. However I definitely will generate more samples using this technique because I think I could use them as a good base to them applique, embroider and other textiles techniques to elevate them more. One of the objects I was looking at in my initial drawings was a tie dye bucket and I was thinking about recreating this pattern using marbling.
06/11/2019
The 'your London' project has been quite significant for me, I started this project with out fully understanding the importance of drawing, I know understand that its a key part of the process rather than something you do at just the beginning of your project. I also developed a deeper understanding of colour.
Before this project people would look at my work and say its 'SOOO COLOURFULLL!!!!!' , for my multiples project I used pastels which worked for my concept and bright saturated colours for my extension project. I always linked the amount of colours I used to the success of my project, which I assumed in my head had to be bright and ' in your face'. From my research in Finsbury park I found a lot of greens and wanted that to be my main colour scheme, but after the Adobe workshop I found that I was drawn to the more muted and subtle colours and opted for olive/dark green and blue grey. I think these colour are show the best with the success of my linos, you can really see the colours work well together. I think this project will help me have more developed projects in the future.