Day 1 Pinterest and mind map

Today I have started by simply making a Pinterest board. I have tried looking for artist s and pieces of work that relate to the project however also have an element of my style in them. I have also been searching on Pinterest about different colour theory's and symbolisms.
Today I also started a mind map in my sketchbook which has helped me a lot in deciding the routes that I could possibly explore and go down.
Developing a Pinterest board on this project has helped me to find different artists who look closely and a mother and child's bond. I have found artists of very similar style which is brilliant as I usually struggle to find that.

Mother and child project

Today we have been given our new project 'mother and child' this project is inspired by the work of sculpture Sam shendi and his work that has been recently exhibited in the civic art gallery in Barnsley.
We have been asked to fill a full a4 sketchbook with research on the project and asked to interpret the brief in our own unique way.
Straight away I had ideas as me and my mother have an extremely strong bond so I defiantly wanted to do a project that could link in with them emotions. I also wanted to try and tailor this project to my abstract style and I have straight away had a thought on looking at colour theory and symbolism.

6/10/2016

Today Claire let us start our final Lino piece. I decided to go with my wood idea because I thought it would be more effective with what she wanted us to do. Claire wanted us to do a gradual Lino print meaning we print one colour then go and take more Lino away then print another colour to show a build up of inks. I started by sketching my idea onto the Lino using permanent marker! I then went straight over to the printing area to start my first print. I wanted to have a plain block colour in the background so I decided on yellow. I printed the block yellow 5 times and then washed my Lino. I then cut away more Lino and printed the next colour over the top. It was very confusing at first and I found it hard to understand but I soon got the idea and knew what I was doing. I only did 2 layers today but I am hoping to do 4.

5/10/2016

Today I started to create some samples using actual Lino. I used an A5 piece of Lino cut into two to create two pieces. A mushroom piece and a wood one. This went really well and I found the Lino a lot easier to cut that I originally thought! However i had a few complications where I cut too deeply into the Lino causing the Lino cutter to go all the way through to the other side! My final two lino cuts looked very good though and I will be trying them out with inks one day next week.

4/09/2016

I stared on my second design sheet today which is inspired by the texture of wood. I started by gathering images and inspiration and then looking through them to come up with a Lino plan. After deciding on a design I then started to create a background for my design sheet. I did this using tissue paper, PVA and brown paints. After my background dried I then went over it using oil pastels which gave a wood effect! I also created another polystyrene mock up to show what my print would look like. I printed these on my design sheets to show my sampling and then went over them in fine liner to give a bold stand out look. I then added my design idea to the sheet including different papers I want to work on

29/09/2016

Today I started making some polystyrene mock ups of my mushroom Lino print idea. I did this by faintly drawing out my idea on a piece of polystyrene and then using a pencil to flatten down polystyrene where I didn't want colour to be. I did this to get an idea on how my first design would look and also to add more detail and colour to my design sheet. I started using the polystyrene example by painting it in acrylic and then printing it on bits of paper. I think it worked very well and I was extremely happy with the results I got and the quality of my first design sheet. I used the polystyrene example on my design sheet to show my workings.

28/09/2016

Today in sole I carried on with my design sheets. I decided that I wanted to have a play around with how I wanted my mushroom print to look so I decided to trace some ideas on tracing paper and normal paper. I looked at different backgrounds I could work on too, I used grey paint to create a background sample and also experimented using different types of paper including tissue paper and brown parcel paper.