Intentions - Blog post 3
I went to the Royal Armouries Museum on Monday with the Uni
group. It was fascinating because I’d
never been before and there were just so many things to see. I particularly loved the Japanese Samurai
armour, which I learnt was made of iron, silk, leather and bronze, from a
presentation given by museum staff and from https://someinterestingfacts.net/how-was-samurai-armor-made/
This week I didn’t have a tutorial, but I’ve been
experimenting and working on my samples.
From the Tuesday morning lecture given by David Nelson, we were advised
on how to create a creative CV. I have a
CV that I’ve used for part time jobs in the past, but now I need to recreate
another CV to include all of my artistic experience.
Last week I made some clay buttons cut out in different
shapes, getting the inspiration from one of my African artifact drawings. Since then I don’t know what to use them for,
but I hope to get more inspiration to use them.
The tie dye sample hasn’t come out the way I expected. I first dyed the fabric yellow using acid dye
and then used elastic bands to make little scrunched balls to be dipped into
indigo. When it dried I was expecting for the creases
to still show yellow connecting from one circle to another. However, I’m quite happy with the outcome. I like the colour as well because it fits in
with my autumn colour theme. I like it
that they haven’t come out uniform either in colour or shape.
I worked on Sublimation printing where I painted on to paper
using sublimation ink and used the heat press for 2 minutes to transfer the
design on to the synthetic fabric. With
this technique I’m always unsure of the way the samples turn out because the
colours on paper are what I want, but on fabric it seems to always come out
lighter, to my disappointment. It does
fit into my colour theme but just not the colours I wanted. I need to improve on this through doing small
test samples where I can experiment with mixing colours to get the outcome I
intend.
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