We Don't Withhold.

Some of my work is currently being shown on the blog 'We Don't Withhold' which is a blog created specifically for people in Leeds that are interested in Art and Fashion and who want to show their work.

The blog can be found here; http://wedontwithhold.tumblr.com/

There is also a Facebook group here;

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=161160367242941

Indeed.....

Soya hot chocolate.....

....is fantastic in my Hell Yes mug from New Museum, 235 Bowery, NY.

Dye workshops.....

Even though I was wearing gloves today in the dye workshop, I still managed to dye my finger tip blue and my thumb brown. 


I learnt about Indigo, Potassium Permanganate and Citric Acid dye's today.


I managed to get Indigo dye spots on my light grey jeans....I used the process of applying the Potassium Permanganate dye to remove the Indigo dye and then the Citric Acid dye to remove the Potassium Permanganate....it worked....was rather pleased with myself. 


Note to self, next week wear old clothes as some people aren't as careful with the dye's!!!

New York - Sept 2010

I took a birthday trip to New York and was very inspired. Some of the things I was inspired by were the fire escapes.....

 Soho fire escapes.....

 Chinatown fire escapes....

 Saw some fantastic graffiti.........

Advert in Chinatown

 Walking over Brooklyn Bridge

After a night out in Brooklyn the sequins on my top were catching the light and making patterns dance on Maria's apartment walls.

Horses and ducks.....

 View over Central Park.....

More random graffiti in Chinatown.....

 Shop front....

 'I'm way into stuff'....badges I bought at New Museum.....

 I met Jake at Bruar Falls....my iPhone has no flash so we used candles to light the pictures....I really like these shots...fun.....I have lots of New York pictures, these were just a few of my fav's. It's such an amazing city...I hope to be going back there really soon. I fell for that city in a big way......

New Project for the new school year.

 So I'm now a second year!!!!! 

Our first project is on innovation, but first we have to create a series of designs to take through to the next design stage.

I started with some of the flower images I took photos of over the Summer. I've been asked to design some merchandise for my friend Maria again. I want to update the image I did for her ep and I have a few ideas of how I can do this.

         

My new desk space at uni is starting to fill up with images. I like it looking busy.

There are some skateboard graphics up and some of my images from my trip to New York. I'm inspired by New York fire escapes, been drawing them quite a bit.

April/May Update

The wall covering project went well and I was pleased with the results. I managed to make quite a few backgrounds of black paper and grey acrylic paint that I then tried a few different printing processes on. 

 

 This image was black flock printed onto black and grey background.

 A little hard to see in the photo because this was black acrylic paint screen printed onto a black and grey background.

I did use the laser cutter to cut out some leaves that I used on the background. This print is a black, grey and gold acrylic paint background, with black laser cut leaves and black acrylic print on top.

One of my favourite prints. This is a black and grey background, and the image is printed using gold foil. Scrunching up the foil before hand gives a nice texture that also sticks to areas of the acrylic used on the background.

Presenting final pieces of work.

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Final A1 sized print. Black and grey background with black acrylic print, gold foils and black flock.

Final project of the year is a personal project. I've decided to create patterns for glass using abstract images of flowers. 

Here are a few of my sketches.

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I've been using tracing paper to try out different compositions and using Illustrator to put some layouts together. Scanning in images and rotating shapes to create patterns.

As well as using the laser cutter to engrave into perspex, I also created templates with vinyl and brown tape stuck onto glass to use in the sandblaster.

On the left is the glass with the templates on ready to be placed in the sandblaster. On the right are the glass samples with the templates removed. You can just make out the pattern left behind from the sandblaster.

Next step is engrave back into these sandblasted samples with more intricate patterns.