I’m currently studying Textile Crafts at the University of Huddersfield UK. I am in my third year of practice. I specialise in Print this involves some of the following; Screen printing Laser Cutting Designing prints directed at illustration, advertising and fashion. Drawing plays a big part in the end result. i think keeping a diary of my traces of thought and decisons is very important for me to look back on, and for other people to gain an insight. Enjoy :)

Monday 26 October 2009

20.10.09 GROUP TUTORIAL WITH DIONNE

STUDIO PRACTICE DISCUSSION

This was done in groups of three. We all gave out feed back on each others work, I was with two other printers (Naomi and Lizzy)

I started off by saying Id bought three big sheets of plastic that I plan to print onto. Also I had found out how much it would cost to print photographs, images, photoshops onto paper - and how big this could potentionally be.

I got a lot of very positive feed back that gave me that push to move on from the research stage to actually printing ideas and technique.
We all decided the best option was to cut one piece of plastic sheet into smaller pieces to sample on, try out and push this new material in many different ways.
This could be done by:
  • wax onto the plastic, then screen print
  • laser cut
  • scratch into the plastic
  • heat gun, soldering iron
  • screen print then morph the plastic in product design
  • print onto both sides the morph, then scratch
  • paint with acrylics
  • spray paint
  • frosting
  • opaque paint.block out
  • bendy masking tape
  • glass paint, glass pen
  • thinner plastic, acetate?
All these techniques can be changed by changing the order in which they are put down to create layers.

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