Evaluation; arts and crafts

For this project I only used secondary research, I used my Pinterest a lot while I was doing this, I also had a look through a book that I had got from the library. The book was about William Morris’ work I took this book out but I didn’t use it for a very long period of time. I decided to use William Morris for my historic artist, I chose him because I liked his floral designs and the way he arranged patterns.  To put my mood boards together I chose 3 pictures from a variety of artists then I arranged them so they looked neat and professional, I decided to do John Howe who did the paintings for the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, he mainly uses watercolour to paint scenes or landscapes I thought this would work well with Morris’ floral patterns.  Throughout the project I used a wide range of techniques including puff binder, where you paint onto the paper then, using a heat gun,(do not touch the heat gun as it will be very hot)  warm up the paint which then makes the paint grow like popcorn, we used batik; using wax on paper, to pour the wax you use a Tjanting,  do not touch the Tjanting however as the hot wax will heat the metal. Weaving, where using either a cardboard or peg loom you weave the wool in and out of itself making a weave. We also did hand sewing and sewing machine, in both of these you will use sharp needles which can be a danger hazard. Whenever we entered the textiles workshop, we had to sign in, this is in case there was a fire which the teacher would then have to look at to see if all the children were there.When I brought my work in to be peer assessed I was told that it wasn’t finished so I took my work back home to work on. My strengths were my drawing and watercolour painting skills, I think they are where my work really shone, however the other techniques I have tried are not as strong as I don’t think I enjoyed them as much. I also enjoyed using coloured pencil on black paper.

If I was to do this project again I would definitely manage my time more and stop spending too much time on a sheet whichas left me so far behind on my other sheets, I need to start spreading my time over the whole course of the sheets and make sure I put the same amount of effort into them all. What went well through my project was my drawing and painting technique, however what went badly was my use of my blog, I get so caught up in my work that I forget to use my blog at all which then means I have to also catch up on them too, I need to definitely manage my time better. If I could change anything about this project I would have rushed some of my sheets making me finish all the sheets quicker.

I did not manage my time well at all and tha is why I have done so badly on this project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cardboard weaving

First of all we were given a piece of card which has teeth at both the top and the bottom of the page you then thread the wool up and down throught the top and bottom teeth.

After we weaved the main bart you have to interlock the other wool using the plastic needle, when doing this you must remember to go in and out of the other wool to make sure you pick up different threads...

If you do it wrong give up theres no point trying again your wasting your life... I find this technique much more stressful than peg looming.

Weaving

Firstly we had to cut 10x 30cm strips out of the wool as shown below...

Then we learnt the names of the directions that the loom makes cloth, (a loom is the device which weaves cloth) the warp goes up and down and the weft goes from left to right, we then had to post the wool through the pegs and stand the pegs into the peg board.

When we had completed this we were then told we had to tie the ends of the wool, the first 3 of the 10 together then the middle 6 you tie in 2s and the last 3 you tie together...

After that we had to interlock a seperste piece of wool and weave it in and out of inbetween the pegs.

You can then start to use different colours and make the fabric 2 colours as shown below...

To finnish pull the pegs up through the bottom of the weave and let the thread hang loose out of the top...

For the last step cut the thread right next to the eye of the peg then tie the ends just as you did at the very start.

After the ends are tied you can stretch the weave back out so it isnt all clumped into one little ball.

The image above is the end product. 

Print making

In this lesson we did lino cuts and collographs these are basically 2 ways of print making, the collographs are where you layer up thin card to make a picture which when paint is put on top you can use it to make a print. The lino cut is done by carving an image into the lino which you then apply paint to the surface and that will then print onto the paper.

Contemporary artist sheet (john howe)

For my contemporary artist i chose john howe, most famous for his work on the hobbit and lord of the rings he mainly uses water colours so i began to use water colours but then highlighted main areas with coloured pencil. 

Observational drawing and mark making project evaluation

we have learnt many drawing techniques in this project such as tonal shading, dotting, continuous line drawing and cross hatching throughout the topic we have practiced many of these skills. I was familiar with a couple of these skills such as cross hatching (using lines and intersecting/crossing them to make the picture darker), tonal shading (shading the object as if you could pick it up off of your page) and dotting (the use off dots and the amount of dots you place together makes the picture darker). however I did not know about continuous line drawing where you cannot lift your pencil from the paper I did not enjoy using this technique though. I have used colored pencil in a variety of ways, I have used them while doing tonal shading and cross hatching the most, I also have used them over different surfaces such as on top of paint, ink and different papers.  have also used pens to cross hatch. the most difficult objet I have used is a compass to do the Sgraffito drawing this s oil pastel with blank paint mixed with washing up liquid on top then you use the compass to scratch some of the paint off of the board leaving the vibrant oil pastel colors exposed.
the four studies we have done were to use colored pencil on a variety of backgrounds such as on parcel paper and newspaper, on inks, on white emulsion and bleach on Brusho inks, I found that all of the techniques were effective however there were some that I thought looked better and also there are some I enjoyed a lot more than others. I enjoyed using the colored pencil on top of different papers and on top of the ink I thought it was very effective and looked really good as an end product.
I fund using other tools other than pencil to mark make with hard at first but after a while they grew on me and I've begun to enjoy using other tools to mark make with other than pencil.
my sgraffito drawing was effective as it was just a black sheet of paper however as it was scratched into I thought the right, vibrant colors contrasted really well and made the drawing stand out a lot.
I spent a lot of time on my homework's and I think the end product showed this, I particularly enjoyed the tonal shading drawing of the inside of a cupboard and I think that it is my best piece of homework.

I believe my observational studies have improved and I believe it is because of the new techniques and styles I have learnt also I have been able to work on proportion as I wasn't very good at this before. in some places I think I could have managed my time a little better as I think I spent too long on some pieces rather than on others but overall I think I have done well and I got everything finished so I cant have managed time that badly. I have tried to complete all drawings and mark makings to a good standard some better than others but overall I like the end product of most of my work. I don't really know many other techniques so I don't know if there are any others that I want to try however I am happy to learn and try things that are out of my comfort zone.
my overall thoughts on this project were that I have enjoyed this topic, I enjoy observational drawing so this was right up my street I believe this is why I'm happy with most of my works, next time I think I need to spend the same amount of time on all of my drawings not just concentrate on one and the others not so much.