Don’t bother sitting down, because you’ll only stand right back up again: ahead lies the final print edition! Delightful! Although I had been really struggling with the workload of this term, this module has always been a breath of fresh air. It was a chance to step all the way back and look at thingsContinue reading “Lo-Fi Printmaking: FINAL!”
Category Archives: Traditional Art
Sewing (I guess?) – Crochet Adventures
A classic tale of me learning a skill based on convenience. I want to get back into doll making now I’ve got the sewing machine, and had remembered seeing a crochet hook in the sewing kit I received for Christmas. Cut to me googling “How Difficult Is Crochet” on the bus, thinking – if it’sContinue reading “Sewing (I guess?) – Crochet Adventures”
Visual Diary – How do I wash my clothes?
If I was feeling cheeky, I could have stretched this over two days’ worth of visual diary. Lots of good fun work, getting back into the sketchbook to make some physical work. The ink loosens my hand and makes me happy. I think I’ll probably upload my writing on here in full today, because IContinue reading “Visual Diary – How do I wash my clothes?”
Lo-Fi Printmaking – Lino Layer
oh YEAH babey! The image below is actually upside-down, and is all my test prints resting on our drying laundered bedsheets stretched across chairs. Just so you know what you’re looking at. So, registering the lino was always going to be hard. Because I was combining printmaking methods, one registration matrix would not be appropriateContinue reading “Lo-Fi Printmaking – Lino Layer”
Lo-Fi Printmaking: Stencil Layer
I sorted out the stencil prints. I want to say I sorted them today for narrative points, but it was a couple of days ago. I took an A3 sheet of paper, and registered the cut acetate roughly to the center. This didn’t have to be surgical, because the lino layer will play the largestContinue reading “Lo-Fi Printmaking: Stencil Layer”
Lo-Fi Printmaking: Lino Cut!
Huge progress as I finished the lino cut! I am utterly sideways with excitement for how this turns out. I’ve actually done the stencil now but I’m making it two posts because I’ve been putting off writing this one up. And my bandwith is all tied up dealing with a drive video, so I can’tContinue reading “Lo-Fi Printmaking: Lino Cut!”
Sewing Project – Old Shorts
One of the big presents I got for Christmas this year was a sewing machine. I’ve handmade a few clothes and items in the past year – my jester’s shirt most notably, and my cloak – and hand-sewing is incredibly time consuming. Today I threaded it up for the first time and messed about withContinue reading “Sewing Project – Old Shorts”
Christmas Cake!
Just a quick feature because it took a lot of work – I made my first Christmas Cake ever this year! Mum and I made the mixes together, and I bought the cake back to Brighton. I fed it with Brandy every few days, and today I iced it!
Lo-Fi Printmaking: Lino Progress
I mocked up my Jester as a final image in Procreate. This featured two layers: the lino layer, and the colour layer underneath. I saved both and uploaded them into indesign at exactly the same size, to use as guides to creating stencils and lino. I thought carefully about bleed, and my colour layers goContinue reading “Lo-Fi Printmaking: Lino Progress”
Performance Project – Poster
Right at the beginning of the project, I made some thumbnails for poster ideas and took some photos using lighting, silhouette and painted newsprint. These are some of the images I took with no filters or editing. For coloured lighting, I set my iPad to max brightness and just showed colour screens of either greenContinue reading “Performance Project – Poster”
SEASIDE ILLUSTRATION 