Festive week before Christmas

Studio Practice 1 Part II

Brief “Emperor’s New Clothes”

Concept Development

Photoshop Layers  

Photographic image of young boy

Textiles layers

Text from the story.  

Image transfer with freezer paper onto silk

Reflective surface with acetate imagery of young boy pointing

Slash and Burn technique

A Variety of materials secured onto a canvas base with a combination of bondaweb and sewing machine.

Sewing machine disaster

Home sewing machine technical difficulties resolved by access to college machinery. 

 

Soldiering iron and heat gun distress and distort layers of textiles.

The technique of slash and burn is a metaphor for the layers of lies that distort the truth in the story of “the Emperor’s New Clothes”. 

reflectve surface

under layer of

Slash and Burn techniques

 overlay with acetate  

Conceptual circular reflective surface

The Mirror never lies

PDP

The Module’s folder handed in to tutor. The next stage will be to wait for the for assessment feedback from the tutor. 

Critical & Contextual Studies

The college will be closed for staff development so no class this week. 

 

Week 15 – Presentations galore!

Studio Practice Emperor’s New Clothes

Concept Development of Silk material layered with batik wax scratched layers of silk paint colour.

Research

 Jeffrey Edwards  

3 colours

Concept development

 Layers of 3 fabric paints added to the textile composition of hand drawn gutta baby faces.  The imagery isolated with masking fluid prevents colour bleeding into composition.

Concept Development

Reflective surface – finding truth

Sketching – a youth points out that the emperor has nothing on.

Gutta drawing on silk

Photographic imagery of youth

Photoshop Experimentation

 Youth with layers of coloured material

Text

Freezer Paper & Silk Ink jet photocopier

Cyanotype Imagery of youth and text on Paper

PDP

The promotion & Presentation PowerPoint went well with Tutor & colleagues.  

CV

Statement of Practice

Business Stationary:

Portfolio Traditional / Online

Website: Constructing a website with Wix.com was time consuming & confusing process with internet browser difficulties.

 Blog

Next week the Module Folder will be prepared for hand in to tutor.

Critical & Contextual Studies

A Gallery visit to Edinburgh arranged for degree students led to the cancelation of the Petcha Kutcha PowerPoint presentation. The Draft presentation has been delayed until after New Year.

 A practice work shop with the timed presentation gave an opportunity to gain my first experience of this mode of presentation and to receive feedback.

Week 14 it’s the season to be changing deadlines

Week 14 it’s the season to be changing deadlines

This week commenced with the old mobile phone joining the  digital camera in that scrapyard of broken technology.  They say these things come in 3s  

Studio Practice 1 “Emperor’s New Clothes” brief

The time plan extended deadline by 1week. 

The project's main idea: layering colour and materials. 

The project’s concept is a child finding truth in layers of deceit.  

Concept ideas from sketches and photographic images of children led to concept development.

Acrylic photographic imagery

 

drawn imagery acrylic paint



Photographic Imagery textiles materials



Drawn imagery textile materials



photographi cimage tissue paper 

drawn imagery tissue paper

In depth Research of story themes: The concept of finding truth

Concept Development

Circle imagery and reflective surface

Silk painting with batik

Sketching young boy

Gutta drawing

In the story of “Emperor’s New Clothes” a child points to out the truth that the emperor has no clothes on.

PDP

The update of CV and artist statement has been completed and added into the website.  The website' construction  continues with the final  touches of  inserting portfolio &  community project imagery.

The stationary of business card, business letter head, compliment slip and invoice has been completed on computer programme publisher.  

 The  Promotion and Presentation PowerPoint needs to be ready for next week. 

Critical & Contextual Studies

The tutor reviewed the story board of the proposed Draft Power Point Presentation and has suggested some amendments. 

The tutor has given the good news that the Draft Power Point Presentation date has changed to next Friday.  So I will be doing another PowerPoint practice session.  Fun!