by Kelly | 29 Oct 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Exploring Different Materials
I should have done this at the beginning of the module really and looking at other people’s work and sketchbooks makes me feel guilty that I hadn’t done anything except bring in objects I like and talk about why I like them. So I have now started doing...
by Kelly | 28 Oct 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Exploring Different Materials
I started making paper flowers. The first was using a technique that my younger sister showed me. Her friend Maxine taught her how to make them so I tried it out, from memory (and my memory is usually terrible!) but did a slight variation. You make strips of paper and...
by Kelly | 28 Oct 2010 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, Exploring Different Materials
I have been making things out of old aluminium drinks cans. I first started off just painting them (two actually) but I didn’t know why… I was doing a painting at the time and I had some paint left over and the cans were just lying there. As an artist and...
by Kelly | 04 Oct 2010 | 5AA002: Integrating Practice and Materials, 5AA004: Understanding Skills and Materials, Creating in the Workshops
I spent all weekend working on images to make stencils from. I spent most of my time messing around on Photoshop. I have already been creating silhouettes from photos I have taken, but I wanted to try to make some stencils out of them with more detail. As I didn’t...
by Kelly | 30 Sep 2010 | 5AA002: Integrating Practice and Materials, Creating in the Workshops
Finally started one of my sketchbooks. Admittedly only the first page and it is only my silhouette and stencil images but we have to start somewhere! I have been in the workshops all day. A few hours in the print workshop after getting sheets of glass cut, edged and...
