by Kelly | 22 Mar 2011 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, 5AA003 Creative Applications, Creating in the Workshops
Today I put three glass kilns on – two with scraps of glass from the hot shop: for jewellery from “found waste” to re-use it and the other has larger pieces which I hope will fuse together as they did in a firing I had the other day. I want them to...
by Kelly | 20 Mar 2011 | 5AA003 Creative Applications, Initial Ideas, Research
I went to the Grand Theatre in Wolverhampton with my sister to watch the Russian State Ballet of Siberia perform The Nutcracker. I am basing one of my module projects on this show for designs of giftware and products for the Grand Theatre possible future gift shop. I...
by Kelly | 25 Feb 2011 | 5AA003 Creative Applications, 5AA005: Specialist Practice in Applied Arts
I put a kiln on today with the low firing enamels screen printed on as a test piece. My next test piece will have high firing enamels on it first as background colours, so that I can then screen print low firing enamels on top after firing. These will be ready to...
by Kelly | 25 Feb 2011 | 5AA003 Creative Applications, 5AA005: Specialist Practice in Applied Arts
I have finally started screen printing, starting with enamels (blue – low firing) onto decal paper and onto a sheet of float glass for a test piece. I also used red acrylic paint onto card which made me think of the possibility of producing postcards of my...
by Kelly | 23 Feb 2011 | 5AA003 Creative Applications, 5AA005: Specialist Practice in Applied Arts, Creating in the Workshops
I had a new acetate printed with my new images on this morning, then took it to Andy in the screen printing workshop to make up a screen for me. Spent a lot of money on this task so it better turn out well! I produced small versions of the image so I can produce some...
by Kelly | 22 Feb 2011 | 5AA001: Design Discourse and its Critique, 5AA003 Creative Applications, Creating in the Workshops, Initial Ideas
Today I had a tutorial about my Tuesday Module – Design Discourse, which I now feel slightly better about having some idea of how to progress the project. I then went to the Digital Print office and had my sketchbook drawing scans which I spent hours editing...
