Paper Homework

 This was a homework set to us and the task was to use paper to make a item in your room and mine was a lamp similar to this one and when making this the hard part about it was making the inside of the lamp right and making it stay up and not sink down which it kept doing , in the end I found a way to make it stable as well as making the lamp Base because i wanted it to look like the lamp i had but it kept failing so in the end i just did another base for the lamp so it was like combining two lamps I have in to one lamp. and to make up for the base being wrong i decided to add a wire and plug to it and as well on the wire there is a square kind of shape that's the on and off button you can flick for the lamp  . the fun part of this task was making them lamp itself the less enjoyable part was trying to get the base the right shape.

Wiring task mix media

This was the task in which we had to put some of our wiring pieces together and draw them and so this task wasn't really that difficult because  it was just drawing the item in front of us and we have done this a lot for GCSE and year 7-8 the hardest part about it would properly be the painting of the phone as i am not that good at painting  so it was kind of difficult to get the colours right and to make sure that it looked ok and didn't look bad because of the colours.

Cardboard kitchen Homework

 This was a homework set to us by our teacher and the homework was to create a item from our kitchen with cardboard and so when thinking of what to make i wanted to be different from everybody else work so i deicide to then make a pair of chopsticks first and so after i wanted to make more so i then started working on a bowl and after that the tea cups and the tea pot then the spoon and the filling of the bowl was just scape cardboard i couldn't use because it was either to small or

 had parts missing and wouldn't be useful so instead of wasting them i used it for a filling and then the toaster came after and finally the tray. when doing this homework it was really fun because i got to make so many different things and try this out for the first time and so it was something new , the hardest part i would say was bending the cardboard to make the shapes and planning on how to make the items look real and how they actually look.

Recycle Project Wiring Update

 I had already made a post on this , this is just an update on that and to show that i had finished the task and I had covered it in pva glue and tissue paper

Card Phone Task

This is the task in which we where given two pieces of card and a picture on a piece of paper and the task was to make that picture in the two hours given to us. So when first doing the task it was hard because I didn't know anything about this is was new to me but as time when on I figured more and more about the task and it became easy, however due to that I was able to finish it in the two hours or only use 2 pieces of card I instead finished it in my own time and it took me about 3 and half hours to finish and 3 pieces of card. the hardest part about making the phone was the phone itself. I wanted to make it 3d like the rest of it but I couldn't figure out how  in the end I just mad two sides and a middle part and stuck them together with two rolls of card in the top and end so it looks better and more realistic.

Recycle Project Wiring

For this project we were asked to make certain pictures out of wiring and because we had already done so with card and tape I decided to again do the telephone and this picture is the start of the phone with a base and sine being built. In the next picture it is me adding a phone , a top part of the phone and a wire which attaches the phone and with this project it was a lot harder then the making it out of card because the wires would not go in the right position a lot of the time , it would stab in to your fingers , it was a pain to join the wires together because there would always be parts sticking out and so you would have to cut it and then use your nails to bend it around the other wires however it was enjoyable to see my end result and that it came out looking semi decent and not to bad.

Prints Final Project pieces

This is one of my attempts at a final piece and as you can see it didn't really turn out that well because of how I had printed over the top with that bamboo styled collagraph and this had ruined what would have been a good out come however learnt from this and it did help me crate a final piece in the end so you could say it was a stepping stone to success.

This is my second go at the same style as the last one however without the bamboo print over it and the reason for this is because i liked the way the original looked with the print over the top so i decided that i would redo the same background just with a different front on top 

This picture is the results of me using silk screen for the first time and this is also gong to be included in my final piece and the reason i had done this is because i needed something to go over the top of my other picture and when talking to my art teacher about it he suggested a building or plant and so the palm house was chosen and to make the picture stand out more i should mix the paints first then do the screening and this turned out really good because i like the way the colours came out and i also like the positions of all the prints and these prints were inspired by an artist called Jo Ann hook and she did similar prints with nature and things over the top and the palm house comes in to play because when i finished making three of these i cut the palm house outline out of the .prints and it looks really good and so then once i finished that i stuck it on top of the other prints and so that's how my final piece came to fruition

Artist research

The artist i have decided to research about for lino is James Abbott McNeill he was an american born , British based artist and the reason was because when i was looking for artist who do lino printing i seen a picture of his work and i was instantly interested because even though his pictures are buildings and ports it was the fact that he used this lino styled type method to draw these pictures. The other artist i have research is Lucas van leydan was among the first Dutch exponents of genre painting and is generally regarded as a very accomplished engraver and so this is again because of the title that was given to him so when i look at his pictures it  peeked my interest even more because i could see why he was given that nickname

Lino prints second attempt

This is my next attempt at using press printing with lino and this time i have used two colors by printing a couple of first time prints then using the cutting tool to go over my lino plate and cut out the parts i wanted top keep that specific color and so the prints did turn out ok however some prints didn't turn out as successful but i can use those prints to my advantage because it allows me to be able to look what went well and what went wrong and to make my other prints better and not make that mistake so it allows me to develop my work.

This is me using red for my prints then going over it with blue  

This is me mixing the blue and red inks to make this purple colour then adding a white over the top

Lino work (for printing)

Lino work 
This is our lino work which we had made on 2 days ago and this right now was the start of my work in which we had to draw pictures from our sketch book and i had chosen this one because i like the fact it has a bamboo style to it and as  well as this picture is also from when we went and visited the palm house.

what i like about this picture is that because of how difficult it was drawing on the lino with a cutting tool a lot of the shapes turned out well and the lines also well shown in the picture

what i dislike about the picture is that a lot of the shapes aren't in the right place its wonky , its tilted some of the lines are to thin while some of the lines are to fat however what i can learn from this is that i have a basic idea of lino and how to draw with it and i can use this and apply it to when i next make another lino based drawing because of the experience i have already gained

Pictures 
The top one is my first time using the lino and the bottom one is me then making improvements and making my work more interesting instead of have a black background with nothing on

Final chalk drawing

This is my final chalk drawing and this piece of work was made after the still life work and when making the picture i used pencil to draw it out and then went over it in paint and then once the paint had dried i then went over the picture in a chalk to help give it  a better look. what i like about the picture in the middle part with the pineapple and the basket because on that part it really stands out from the rest of the picture. what i don't like about the picture is that the rest of it looks like a complete mess  and that it doesn't look as good as the rest of the picture and this is good because it shows i still have a lot to learn and it can help influence me in the future when it comes to either this type of process when making a picture of using the chalk again as well as it my first time using this type of chalk and so when using it it i like drawing with it so i might use of the chalk to draw other pieces of my work and to also finish/edit my final piece so it is a good standard.

collage P.H

this is again related to the palm house and this is from when we drew the pictures then used double sided tape and then used string where the drawing was and to finish we put varnish over it and then we used these colored sheets to put over the drawings and we used oil pastels to go over the paper and then once we had enough made this collage in which this is the front of the palm house with to leaves on either side

palm class

this is a chalk drawing again of the palm house however this is class work and when drawing the work we were told that it has to be in these two chalks when drawing so that's why its only orange and white