Studio work glossaries

I continued with my glossaries today and tried to get as many as I could done before the deadline! I did space and continuous line which needed finishing towards the end of the day but i managed to complete them during sole time. 

Textiles workshop

In textiles we did a mixture of many different activitys. At the start we practiced doing some screen printing that involved forcing ink through a screen and transforming it onto a bit of material, this was fun but also sometimes didn't work out which was frustrating. Then we made our own paper which was my favourite part of the day we had to combine loads of scrap paper together and blend it to make our sheets of unique paper. We also did some batik but we had to make sure we was careful with the hot wax because it could scold us very quickly leading to medical problems. Batik was fun but tedious because it was very hard keeping the wax in the pattern I wanted. Finally we used the printer to put a design onto a piece of fabric this was also very warm so we had to be careful. I then embroided the fabric which I found surprisingly easy and fun! 

Studio work

Today I just worked more on my glossary pages. I tried to get as many done as I could but found it difficult thinking of ideas for the words I had left over. I ended up doing 2 pages that are not fully complete because they need definitions however I am very happy with the quality of work I achieved. I also had a blog review with Nathan that helped me on understanding how to get my blog to the level it needs to be. 

Printmaking workshop

Printmaking is my favourite workshop so far. I really enjoyed the start of the lesson where we drew out our hena designs because that's something I enjoy doing in my free time. We then drew up our final designs on pieces of Lino and this next bit I found difficult. 

We had to cut out our designs onto the Lino using a Lino cutter. This was super difficult because it was really really hard to keep control of how this and think the lines went. I found it difficult getting a few of the shapes that I wanted for example circles and triangles were particularly tricky. 

The final design I picked was very detailed and meant a lot of small finer lines needed to be cut this meant that my end Lino wasn't as neat as I wanted it to be. My final prints worked out well I was happy with the colours I chose and the process I had to go through to achieve them, I found the process of the Lino printing fairly simple and easy to understand which meant I got quite a few done. Overall I really enjoyed this workshop because I loved drawing the hena patterns and working with lots of colours and trying new techniques.  

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Studio work glossaries and transforming the windows

Today we started off on the first half of the day doing glossary pages and sketchbook work. I finished a page of my glossary that needed doing and I also continued to do another glossary page which I didn't get chance to complete. 

I then started work on a piece in my sketch book which involved coloured pencils and blending them on outlines of hands that I drew out. This was fun and relaxing I really enjoy doing my glossary pages and working on my own 

We then went on to the second half of the day where Claire asked us to make a giant piece for the window using the words she gave us and the materials. My table got the word 'shape' so we decided that we wanted to make a giant hand out of all different coloured shapes such as circles, triangles and squares. 

This was a really good team building exercise and I got to know my table a lot more. The activity was fun and involved a lot of collage work which I really enjoyed 

Overall my groups window went really well and we felt very pleased with it. It took a long time and was teidious but worked really well. I don't feel like the photo I took does it any justice so I'm not pleased with that.

3D workshop

Today in my 3D workshop we started off looking at some examples of 3D hand sculptures built out of card. It was interesting to see how detailed and abstract that some people could be when working with the materials. We then went on to make our own random sculpture out of cards using slots in the card to keep it together. I made a small sculpture using card and cutting abstract looking shapes out of the card I then coloured them in multicoloured. My finished small sculpture looked really cool and I was proud with the way it looked, it reminded me almost of little people built up. 

We then went on to building our final sculpture of a hand which I thought sounded scary at first because there's so many little details in a hand and I wasn't sure of how I could make them using card only. However when I got into building the 3D sculpture things went right and just slot into place. I could mess up and still be able to go back and try something else I found it a tad fiddly and it was difficult cutting such thick card but that was the only problem I really faced.