Roundabouts - Textiles and Fashion - Manutex Printing

In the forth roundabout session we attended the option Textiles and Fashion. In this session we experimented with mark marking in the form of manutex printing; a form of pattern printing that can only be printed once, unlike most printing making.

When manutex printing you draw your chosen image or pattern onto the silkscreen and pull it through the screen using a print paste on to material. 

Rather then print onto cartridge paper I experimented with appropriating fashion magazine images. This wasn't very successful because the paper had been printed on previously meaning that the ink didn't soak in. 

Roundabouts - 3D - Wire Structures

This morning we spent some time creating wire structures and drawings using the the spot wielding machine. The outcome of the task was to reproduce a drawing of a primary photographs, objects or drawings.

I selected the paper origami dress I constructed in a past exercise for my inspiration. Looking at a small area of the front bodice I experimented in reproduce the folds into 2D wire drawing. 

To develop the wire drawing example further I created a collage using the sample to loosely show the idea of how wire could be used as a garment material.

Roundabouts - Photography - Light Painting

This afternoon the group were given the task to create a selection of photography images expiring the technique of painting with light. 

After the group session the photos were sadly lost. 

However, last year I completed the UAL Diploma in Photography as a night course where were experimented with this technique so I am able to show past work I have produced. 

For the first image I experimented with the a static light and a moving model to create an abstract laying effect that gave the image a eerie, sinister aesthetic. 




In the second image I have use a traditional technique where the light source moves rather the the model. However I used a additional light source to cast a shadow on the face to add to the atheistic. 

Dolphinholme Residential - Drawings

This week we were given the opportunity to go on a residential to Dolphineholme House Farm in Lancaster. The farm is set on the edge of the Forest of Bowland and is a fully functioning dairy farm in a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. 

The overnight accommodation consisted of yurts surrounded by the natural wildlife without modern conveniences like gas and electricity. 

Just outside the yurts is the home to many plants and fungi. While a lot of the group decided to take inspiration from around the farm and river, I took inspiration from what was on my 'doorstep'.

After collecting samples of the nature that bordered the yurts I started to draw the mushrooms using pen, pencil, watercolour and stitch. 

When sketching I tried to simplify the mushrooms by drawing just the outline of the shape and the shadows cast without trying to recreate the textures and details of the mushrooms. I think these drawings are stronger than the more detailed drawings because to me they are better images and capture the rawness of the environment I was in.

Fashion Illustration - Build Creative Exercise

This is the fashion flat created on Adobe Illustrator for the paper garment I made in the creative build exercise.

I've tried simplify but still recreate the folds of the paper and the textures in the copper mesh wire.