Screen Printing

I've just completed a screen printing course. It was a lot of fun, and I'm pretty pleased with what I printed. I was working on a palm leaf design, so I used it as a way of trying out some ideas.

The base motif in a bright green and an apple green. These were made by exposing a design on to a screen painted with light sensitive emulsion.

 And an overlay in two different colours

As we didn't have time to do the registry of the screen properly, the pattern is a little haphazard, but I like the effect. I really like the two colours together too.

It's made me want to do more, so I've been looking into methods of screen printing and other methods of printing fabric at home. I've discovered you can get an emulsion that resists drawing ink, so you can actually paint directly on to a screen. thinking about buying a screen to try this with!

Another Pause....

My own little Bobby Dazzler...

EOTR was like no festival I've ever been to before, they had all kinds of workshops. Got to make my own little Bobby Dazzler:

Bobby Dazzler are a studio in East London that make handmade dolls, the emphasis put on the story of each one. Mine is called Blob. ( I stuffed, sewed & decorated him myself!)

Bird Patterns

Went to the Horniman Museum over the summer, and as well as getting incredibly jealous of their fantastic kitchen garden, I ended up  looking at the wonderful patterns on the plumage of the stuffed bird collection.

Weaving!!

A selection of photos of the various weave work shops I did this summer (leading up to End of the Road)

 Rag Weaving workshop at Lambeth Country Fair 

 Trial weaving day at Burgess Park

Making the woven panels for End of the Road Festival

The Absentee Posts!

Hello there!

It's been a very, very busy year for me! Third year is done and dusted. I graduated in July, and have been taking the last few months off to do a bit of travelling (I say travelling, I went around France...), a bit of catching up with people (still ought to see my grandparents...) and starting to embark on ....the life outside of University!

The most exciting thing that I've done this summer is probably being chosen along with two of my friends to create an art installation for End of the Road Festival. Despite it being a bit of a shock to get picked, and a massive haphazard, last minute rush, I'm incredibly proud of what we made.

The idea was to produce a woven map of the festival, which people could add to, putting themselves in the map and marking their memories in the weave. This is it:

 

It was called 'you are here...'

(notice the appliqued cover, hand done by moi...) 

 The Comedy Stage, the Cinema, The Woods Stage, A Cuckoo and a Peacock...

 A close up of the peacock, a lovely little girl called Eliza helped me make this....

 The Big Top Tent

 The working weave that passers-by could add too

 

Unfortunately I had a lot more photos on my Manual SLR camera, but a can of beer exploded in my bag whilst it was in there, and until I see if it can be fixed, the film is stuck in it.

I have my fingers crossed! x

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