Blog 17

A few weeks To go...

With hand in a few weeks away, I'm at the stage of refining my ideas and beginning to create my final piece. I have made sure that I showed a clear progression in developing samples that relates to my concept. I made a final decision on the layout of my composition through experimenting multiple ways to present my finished piece. 

I have made the decision to create multiple textile sections that will join together forming one piece. The concept in comparison from my last brief is much more stronger and detailed.

The downside to creating this piece is that each section is very time consuming. I am now concentrating fully on creating these sections. Once completed, I will go back and annotate my sketch book.

Blog 16

Trafficking research

Stop the traffik is a human trafficking organisation that helps support the victims of abuse and also raises awareness. They do this by selling merchandise and campaigning. As a final idea for this brief, I began to create some designs that could also make people more aware of this terrible matter that still goes on.

 I thought about creating bags that Would help to raise awareness also. I could encorporate the hand prints from the stop the traffik website and use textile techniques such as appliqué or fabric transfer paint to do so. I have not decided just yet on what to create for my final piece. I plan on creating more paintings and looking at the composition of the human body's first before I make a final decision. 

Blog 15

Dimensions

As an alternative design idea, I experimented with the dimensions as the way I will present the finished piece is very important to me. Firstly I began with the idea of creating a flat framed final piece that would be made using the textile combinations I had experimented with. I feel this would be a save idea to go with. 

This idea shows my final piece displayed in a large flat frame.

The good thing about creating this final piece would be that it could be made fast and relatively quick. The downside in my opinion would be the scale, I would not be overly happy with presenting it this way as I would feel I was taking the easy route. I like to give myself a challenge and therefore will continue with further developments.

Week 14

Combination development...

The techniques used in this sample were:

-Soluble fabric

-Appliqué 

-Encaustic wax

Out of the previous samples created and the multiple combinations of techniques, this one is my most preferred.

This combination of techniques used turned out very effective as a successful texture was created. I am really happy to progress forward and work out how I can layout this combination controllably. The colour choice also worked well due to the contrast in colour. I will continue to use these colours as the orange represented the rescuers from the disaster zones. The black gives a strong mood of death and destruction. Rough drawings will also be created to help me visualise the end result.

Blog number 13 - Design ideas

Designs

After looking through the images from the Nepal earthquake, I sketched specific structure line buildings out on paper. I will now have to decide on one structure to go with in order for me to develop my idea into a final design.

A simplistic structure would work out best as I don't want all the focus going on the building. I want the main attention going to the detail. Experiments will be carried out in order to define the overall scale of the finished piece.

week 12

Nepal Earthquake 2015

An unfortunate event has occurred in Nepal that happens to fully relate to my brief. A devastating  earthquake hit Nepal which killed over 8,000 people last week. The news has spread all over the T.V and radios. I am going to take this to my advantageous and use it not as a major turning point but a new focal point. As Scotland/Britain has made great efforts in giving aid and sending rescuers to the disaster zone, I will now use that as the main link to my concept. I will continue create textile developments as normal but use the building remains as inspiration.
 
Here is the news article I found online that informed me about the Nepal earthquake.

Canadian stranded in Nepal says Ottawa not doing enough to help citizens go home

The Canadian Press 

Apr 27th, 2015

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I will use some of the images taken from the earthquake zone and study them carefully.

week 11 - experiments

Encaustic wax experiments

One of the new techniques I researched about is called Encaustic wax. This involves wax blocks/crayons being smeared over a warm metal plate. The wax then melts almost suddenly giving you time to create textured effects. As creating texture is one of my aims, I was really interested in developing this technique further. Also the process of this technique is very relaxing and soothing - this is a BONUS!

Below is an example of the encaustic wax technique I recently researched.


 samples were created on white paper and blue roll. The card worked best as the detail of the texture shows more clearly. In comparison to the blue roll which was least successful, the detail got absorbed up but still showed the chosen colours.