Oil Pastel Rubbing - Surface Pattern

Today we had a number of textured
surfaces such as wallpaper, netting
and ceramic tiles. We got some tracing
paper and placed them over the textured
materials and pubbed oil pastel over it to
make an impression, on some we then
painted ink over it.

Tie Dyeing - Surface Pattern

Today, We experimented with and learned the technique of tie dying. One that I created by rolling it into a tight sausage shape and bunching it together turned out to look like an ocean, inspired me to stitch two orange fish into it. The other one was done by folding and ironing and then tying together.

Batik - Surface Pattern

Today we did Batik, this is a technique from
Indonesia where hot wax is dripped onto a
piece of fabric and when it solidifies, ink is
used to colour the fabric, the ink spreads
everywhere but where the wax was dripped
and the wax is later ironed of once the ink
has dried.

Tiebele - Berkin Faso

This weeks culture reference of the week was the African village of Berkin Faso. Although it is considered the poorest country in the world, each mud house is decorated with beautiful tribal patterns, usually built by men and painted by women. This is always a community effort. Tiebele is the inspiration for our tribal pattern drawings we did in the second week of our surface pattern brief.

Object Drawing - Surface pattern

At the start of the second week we drew random objects placed in front of us, we could do this is any material we wanted, so I did a rubber duck in embroidery and a knitted dinosaur in ink.
This would later be the inspiration for designing our own repeat pattern.

Polytile Repeat - Surface Pattern

We experimented with polystyrene repeat printing.
We had a small polystyrene tile and with a small
template we filled in the corners, using a template
insures that when the pattern is repeated, it joins
up. We then dented the rest of the design in and
rolled out some ink. We then  rolled the ink on to
the tile and repeated it. I repeated this process on:
Fabric, coloured paper, and plain paper.

Drawing fruit and sweets with oil pastel on black paper - Surface Pattern

As a small task, we each had fruit and sweets infront of us to draw from. We were each given a black piece of paper and oil pastels. eventually we created drawings from our viewpoints, and zoomed into interesting patterns we saw within the fruit and sweets.

Using Shapes - Surface Pattern

In this lesson, we explored shapes to make pattern. In the picture on the right, we cut lots of two different shapes, and arranged several different patterns, this is just one of them.
   Once we were used to that, we began to make more complicated shapes to make more complicated patterns.

New Brief - Surface Pattern

In this new brief, we are going to explore the different types of surface patten, learning new techniques along the way, such as Batik, Printing,
digital pattern work, tye-dying and marbling. By
the end of this project, we will have a number of culture references, artist researches and a sample book containing examples of surface pattern that we have explored.

Calligraphy - Visual communication

In this lesson of visual communication, we learned
gothic calligraphy. We learned to start each letter with your brush at a 45 degree angle. We started off with two pencils taped together, and then we did it with ink and and flat, square paintbrush. I really enjoyed this and found it very interesting. I think this will be a useful skill when designing a perfume logo.

The crate system - Visual communucation

 The crate system is a technique you can use to draw something that looks in perspective and proportional. It is great for something like a perfume bottle. You start  with a very spread out 'y' shape (see in right picture) and draw the rest of
                                          the lines coming slightly closer to the one next to it to show perspective, once
                                          you have your crate shape, you can draw anything within it, following the lines.
                                              Once you have drawn a main shape, for example a perfume bottle, you can
                                          begin to draw the background too, still using the original lines as a guide.

Evaluation - City Project

At the end of the project we
had to write an evaluation.
We had to evaluate our use
of material and techniques
we used to explore the city.
    At the end of our evalua-
tion, I touched on health
and safety of the project.
     The evaluation is the
final piece of any project
and is necessary for every one.

Final Piece - City Project

After gathering all the equipment for
my final piece, I started to plan stage
by stage how I would complete it.
     It took about 6 days in total, every
other segment was stain glass, and the
rest are different materials such as litter,
cotton, paper and cardboard.
     Once completed, I wrote words to
do with the city with a glass paint pen.
      For the next and last stage of the
project I will do an evaluation.