Digital Print

We got given the opportunity to digitally print one of our designs we had done on photoshop for free. I chose a design inspired from some of the lines drawing I did on the way to Liverpool. I was quite pleased with outcome however it's made me want to experiment a lot more to produce some better designs. I love the idea of digitally printing as it's less time consuming than screen printing and can create a lot more possibilities design wise. 

Colour Inspiration

I chose this image out of a magazine as the colours are unusual however all work well together in a quirky way, it will be a challenge to work with these. 

Final Motif Designs

These are my final motif designs to go on to screen for screen printing. I just need to photocopy and to put it onto acetate. There's a mixture of hand drawn and illustrator produced motifs. It will be interesting to see how well I work with a screen that has quite a lot of designs on as i'm used to doing larger simpler-to- print designs. Bring on the challenge! 

Adobe Illustrator Motifs

Here are some of the motifs I digitally created on Illustrator. To say I don't have any experience with Illustrator, I found it quite easy to get to grips with and particularly liked using the different brush stroke tools to interpret how i'd use mark making by hand. I liked the fact you can play around with the size and repeat and rotate your motifs. I've been able to create some great unusual triangles.  

Hand drawn Motifs

 These are a few of my initial hand drawn motifs. I took inspiration from Jakob Koldings work I saw whilst in Liverpool as I love the strong lines the triangles he used had. I wanted to add a textural quality to the designs so I worked with Indian Ink and a tooth brush (bottom image), pastel and biro pen (middle image) and cut out triangles from textures I'd made on paper. I'd definitely like to explore more options I could potentially create using the shape of the triangle and other techniques.   

Mark Making Task

We were given 12 sentences such as 'A harsh black line meets a soft curved edge' and then had to interpret how we imagined this to be, on a small square of paper. I found this task exciting as I loved the freedom of being able to make all the different marks. I used biro pen, pastel and pencil. I think mark making is a really important aspect when it comes to designing as it allows you to explore and make positive mistakes. 

I decided to do a bit of research into artists who use mark making in an interesting way and came across Brice Mardens work. I love the simplicity of his work yet it's still interesting and textural. 

'Obama Letter' 2012 etching 35.6 x 35.6cm

                           'Etchings to Rexroth' 1996 etching & aquatint 203 x 172 mm

                          'Ten days' 1971 etching 30 x 21

Editing and Selecting for 'Drawing'

Here are a few photos of my work that I've begun to play around and experiment with from the trip to Liverpool. So far I've used a combination of drawing and collaging using my own photography and the work I saw and photographed on the trip.

This is one of the photographs I look on the way to Liverpool out of the coach window, I love the blurry rainy effect and I edited it in black and white to show the dullness of the weather that day. I then used oil pastels in bright colours to add a pattern inspired by Bridget Riley's work I saw in the Walker Gallery. To add texture I used yellow embroidery thread to represent where the yellow lines on the road would have been. 

 For this line drawing I drew in biro pen to create simple expressive lines that represent what I saw out of the coach window on the way to Liverpool, I wanted to try capture the movement of the journey. To mix it up and add a splash of colour I cut up bits of the photograph I took of Bridget Riley's 'Sea Cloud' from the Walker Gallery.  

This is also another photograph I took on the coach on the way to Liverpool. I cut