Friday 25 November 2011

jacket alterations

Image 1 Side view of mounted bird and sample of coloured pelmet vilene Image 2 Top view of mounted bird secured at wing tips, tail and beak with sample of coloured pelmet vilene.
Image 3
Altered colour of triangular border (left side ) for comparison (temporarily tacked on at present.).

Friday 18 November 2011

Progress 4th assessment piece

IMAGE 1 WORKING ON THE BACK PANEL
IMAGE 2 THE BACK PANEL INSET INTO THE BACK FABRIC TOGETHER WITH THE EDGED FRONTSIMAGE 3 WORKING ON THE SLEEVES
IMAGE 4 CUTTING OUT THE BIRDS
IMAGE 5 THE PLACEMENT OF THE BIRDS.The on the right of picture front (actual left front) are placed under the net and will be fastened down flat on to the base fabric. The birds on the left of picture front (actual right front) will be placed on top of the net and caugh down at the wing tips, beak and tails to give a curved effect so that they stand proud of the background.

Thursday 10 November 2011

Totem/memory stick

A photograph taken on a recent cruise to the Norway and the fijords. I thought this would provide good source material for my totem/ memory stick on my theme-- Life at the Margins; where land and water meet.
I first made a series of sketches of various different sections of the photograph, some were across the whole piece while others were working on very small sections of the original .I used a variety of different mediums to translate the designs into A5 size images. Here I used painted tissue on muslin and worked on the bands of colour which run along the base of the interior surface of the 'cave' in the photo.
This was an intrepretation of the same band of colour made in coloured acrylic gel
A charcoal sketch on cotton rag paperAn acrylic paint view
Acrylic paint scraped back to the paper in sections
A soluble pencil sketch
Concentrating on one line of fissures I made a cross section in stencil film and used Markal paint sticks on the edge of the stencil , sponged on to black paper The same origins as the one above but Markal paint sticks on white paper
Oil pastels on cotton rag paper
Paint on very wet paper.
IMAGE 13 SIZE A4
I scanned in all the above images and then used them to make a collage.
IMAGE 14 SIZE A4
Another collage arrangement
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE.
I then used thin coloured card to frame each sketch. I then made three laminated images from the original photograph and cut them up to form joining strips across the frames. Each strip of photograph has within it an element of the original which is represented in the sketch .The laminated strips wer then taped at the back to form joining strips for the collection . The piece was photographed flat on the floor.
IMAGE 16 SIZE 40 INCHES X 20 INCHES
In lifting up the previous image from the floor it became apparent that a slide/ transparency effect could be achieved by holding the image up to the light. It is particularly effective in the muslin tissue samples and those sketches done on lightweight paper.
tTime taken 25 hours

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