When we received the brief for handmade graphics, everyone was really pleased. the subject – british birds – seemed to delight everyone, and i know i looked forward to starting very much. The first workshop included making our own stencils and spray-painting them on to the walls – i really enjoyed it, because there was [...]
Here are my two finished cushions, created for the British Birds brief as part of my design specialism in handmade graphics:
Here’s a close up of cushion number one:
And a closer look at cushion number two, which features three little birds sewn onto the bottom right hand corner of the cushion:
For the finished project, we also [...]
Short entry today, it’s almost time to hand in so its all hands on deck.
I decided to keep with the idea of cushions, so, i’m busy making 2, entirely from scratch, and embroidering them. Lets hope they turn out alright!
Today i met up with Guns (more commonly known as Katie) and we had lunch. She is doing structural design, so she showed me the workshops and machines and we sat at a bench and chatted. During this time i wasn’t idle! I’d pilfered some stiff canvas material scraps from the fashion department, and began [...]
to year 8 textiles. I am embroidering a cushion. God knows why, well actually i do know why, after panicking muchos, i went in to uni to talk to my tutor. I’m sure i looked rather pathetic and desperate as i questioned her as to what exactly i should be doing. Her answer was [...]
Panicking slightly here. Loads of people already know what they want to do as a final piece. It’s frustrating because everyones ideas are fantastic, and they’re all stuff i’d like to do too! So out of sheer desperation and in a desire to stimulate my mind, i’m searching through all my draws and wading through [...]
Having reached a bit of a ‘creative block’ with my work i turned back to spray painting and stencils, just for the fun of it really, and seeing as i had run out of card, i just used what ever i could find. A couple of examples are below.
This week I’ve been experimenting with sewing and different ways of portraying British birds using material and thread.
I started off by creating the outline of a bird in flight on a scrap of material.
My tutor liked the contrast of the simplistic lines with the pretty patterned material. Personally I didn’t like it because the wings [...]
So I’ve finally gotten round to taking some photos of the vinyl work we created with Ed (Kid Acne). I really, really enjoyed creating this bird filled scene, and it was great to experiment with vinyl for the first time.
Ed liked the idea of having an image of some pheasants strung up by their necks [...]
Since last week’s session, I’ve continued experimenting with spraypaint and bird stencils, and continued looking at the idea of having smaller bird shapes within a larger bird. This is one of the stencils I created for myself:
As you can see, it’s a large bird, with several smaller birds cut out of it forming a sort [...]