Tilly Ricketts's Art Blog

Wednesday, 23 March 2016

I like how this artist works with wayer colour using water to dilute the colour and working back into it with layers to make it thicker or make realistic shine, tones and shadowing. I will look closely at her methods to get a similar quality of art on my design sheets.

Tuesday, 15 March 2016

Flower Embroidery FMP

i enjoyed embroidery as it was quite neat easy work with colourful and great results. It would be nice to do something like this on a self made dress or skirt to show my skills in textiles. I hope to use this in my future work, maybe not for my final project, but to add to the project. It was hard trying to actually thread the thick wool into the needle but eventually I managed it and created the main petals. I then used thin thread to add small pink and green detail. Next time, I could have created a neater result and I believe it wasn't as neat due to experimenting with the wool trying to see which way would create a neater result and covered the same area. From this I managed to find the best option which will be useful to me in the future.

Experimentation: Pyrography FMP

My pin up Pyrography was fun to create and quite easy to produce. I used a small piece of MDF and burnt on the pencil marks to create the outline. I then used a swirling method to get shading, I could have done better on the parts where I have accidentally used lines to shade and it shows the points where the pyrography has stopped to change direction. I didn’t do the face as there was a lot of detail but I may plan to do a simple face like on tattoo designs. Overall I don't think it’s something I plan to use in my final design, but it might make a great base to some of my work if I were to paint over it. I may be able to make a stamp/print with this too creating neater lines than those on lino and mono print, and I won’t have to free hand it making it easier if I decide to create a repetitive pattern.

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