Target Setting

Complete page in sketch book ✔️ 

Start artist research ✔️

Samples ✔️

Research 2 more artists (done two one more to go) ✔️

Complete pages in my sketch book on an embroidery artist and a felting artist✔️

Start screen print design✔️

Complete one more artist sheet ✔️

Start design sheet ✔️

Experimentation ✔️

Finish experimentation✔️

Start final piece ✔️

Complete annotations in sketchbook

Complete annotations on mdf samples✔️

Evaluation ✔️

Complete Final Piece✔️

Hand everything in✔️

Artist: Jennifer Collier

Jennifer collier is a veteran maker of vintage material. Every detail that goes into her pieces are made from paper. She reuses and recycles books, maps, envelopes, wallpaper and scraps and transformes them into textural forms. She simply uses stitch to attach two or three dimensional objects together. She's uses a variety of methods to create her beautiful pieces for example weaving, waxing, draping, embedding and stitching to create objects such as paper lampshades, cameras, tea cups and wax clothing and shoes.

Jennifer Colliers is the main artist which inspires me to create the artwork I produce. I would describe my work as “delicate”, “natural” and “beautiful” and I like Jennifer I also like to use nature and found objects witching my work. She quotes that her work is “giving new life to things that would otherwise go unloved or be thrown away” and I always aim to do the same in my work. I feel that a flower will not always look the way it appears to start off with so by pressing and reusing a flower or even its petals, I feel it can keep its beautifulness for a much longer period of time.

Here is one of my artists sheets inspired by her...

Paper Making

On my day off I decided to go into college to do some samples for textiles. I decided I wanted to make my own paper as I had never done this before and wanted to try it to see if I liked it and to see if it would be useful to use within my ongoing project and later projects. 

To begin with I filled a tray with Paper Pulp; Paper Pulp is a way of recycling scraps of used paper to make new paper. It includes a combination of shredded paper and water pressed together to make the pulp which does not have a present feel or aperence. It looks like mushed up paper which is basically what it is. After filling a tray half way with paper pulp I then added boiling water which filled the whole tray, this releases the compressed pulp and makes it more free to move around the tray. 

After the water had cooled to a temperature that I could come into contact with the my skin I applied something similar to a sin into the water - it was a wooded frame however instead off it having canvas paper attached to it it had a netting material, this made it have the same purpose as a six but in a larger scale. When applying the netting to the water you had to guide it in so that the pulp on the bottom of the tray was brought to the surface. 

Once the pulp was floating around on the top of the tray I began to slowly six the pulp so that water was drained from it. I used a rectangular piece of netting however you could use a circular one but I wanted my paper to be a similar shape to a original piece of paper. If the netting was not fully covered with pulp at the thickness I wanted it I would place the netting back underneath the water and with my hands guide the floating pulp onto the netting.

After had covered the netting with the pulp I brought it completely out of the water and onto a dry piece of cloth turning the netting upside down and placing th cloth onto the table. Using a dry sponge I pressed it down on the netting covering the pulp to absorb the water remains, squeezing the sponge each time I had removed the access water from the pulp. 

Once I thought as much water had been removed from the pulp I gently removed the netting from it making sure none of the pulp was stuck to the netting. If this did happen I would retreat the process with the sponge to make sure I had removed all the water as this could be the case it was sticking.

after removing the netting completely I had what looked like a wet piece of paper and I need it dry, therefore I left my paper on a drying rack close by until my paper was fully dry.

Critical Analysis/ Art Critic

A critical analysis is subjective writing as it gives the opinion of the writer or an evaluation of a text. However as an artist a critical analysis is giving my opinion or evaluating a piece of art for example a painting. Analysing something means breaking down and looking at something in greater detail. Many people see the word “criticism” negatively when in actual fact it means you are judging whether you like what you see and if not, explaining why you don't. An art critic basically does the same thing therefore I am an art critic when observing my work and others. In art when critically analysing you have to focus on the form of a piece of artwork for example what kind of shapes and textures you can see, the context which refers to how the artwork relates to a particular time, place, culture and society in which it was made, the content of the piece of work for example what it is and what is happening in the piece, the process of how the work was made such as the techniques used and also how the art piece makes you feel and how the work creates a certain atmosphere.

Colour Mixing

For one of my practical lessons I did colour mixing. My teacher gave everyone in the class a specific colour from a dulux colour chart and we had to match it. I was given a teal colour to match. To get the right colour I mixed 50ml of binder, a touch of the colour blue B and a touch of the colour green B.

Cooper Gallery

For the project "The world I live in..." I visited the cooper gallery for ideas for my sketch book and for artist research. I didn't particularly have a favourite piece of the art work from what I looked at as I am more of a textile based person. Nevertheless I still took some photographs...

 

Knitwear: Chanel to Westwood

On 11th of November 2015, I visited the Knitwear exhibition which was held in the Civic. I went there to get inspiration and ideas from the knitwear so that I could produce a 30cm square of either knitting, weaving or crochet that will later be joined onto a kimono.

This exhibition shows vintage fashion knitwear from the 20th century. The exhibition itself includes a variety of famous names and exciting Knitwear designs by Gabrielle Coco Chanel, 1930's woollen swimwear, 1970's Bill Garcons, Vivienne Westwood and Julien MacDonald. The exhibition is based on the influence of art movements Pop, Punk and Deconstruction alongside design innovation and knitwear technologies.

The collection of this Knitwear looks over 100 years of knit wear history. Knitwear in fashion is often taken for granted, but this exhibition gives me the opportunity to be inspired for my future designs.

My most favourite exhibition.