Degree Show Building

This is my degree show space!

I had lots of things I possibly wanted to use but not enough space for them all, so I tried arranging it all different ways to see what fitted best.

After lots of rearranging and days of putting things up and making everything right it all came together really nicely.

I managed to fit in 4 different elements of my work which was really good, by displaying things to make the most of the space I had. I think adding in the floor space made a big difference to the overall feel of the display. 

Looking forward to opening night on the 7th June!

Kicked Out Of The Studio

Here is our sad lonely studio, being prepared for the degree show, feels odd not to have my own space in there anymore!

Will be exciting to see my space, get painting and have my work on show!

In the meantime I have been making my triangular cushions and bean bag out of my second fabric print and the backing fabric from my first one, which turned out really nice.

Was nice to go from start to finish and design, print and make something of my own.

Even the pup wanted to join in!

Back To Work!

After having two weeks off I am back in uni, already feels like I have never been away!

Over the last two days I have managed to complete the second layer of my fabric with all of the patterns printed on.

I am really happy with how it has turned out, none of the pattern detail has been lost and the colours look great.

Even better, because this has taken such a short amount of time I am going to do a second print but change it slightly, getting more use out of my screens!

Now For The Real Thing

After lots of practising and testing, tweaking colours and sampling fabrics....

I have started the final print! 

So far I have finished my block colour layer, after the Easter break I will be able to take that off the print table and start on my patterned layer! 

Test Print Done...

Heres my print adding in the coloured patterns step by step.

My final won't look like this because it will be on two layers of fabric, the colours will look slightly different.

Theres a few bits that need taking out or adding in that should or shouldn't be there, but nothing that can't be fixed....

Now for the real thing!!

Test Printing

After mixing and testing all my colours on Monday, I began testing and registering all my screens to get them all lined up perfectly, make sure everything was there and that I was happy with all my colours together.

So far I have printed the 4 block colours that will sit together on one piece of fabric, the next step is to print the 4 colours of texture over the top to get them in the right place and test to see if everything is right.

Then I can get on with the final print!

 

Kodatracing Done!!

After some very very long hours stood at the light box all week, I have finally finished doing the 8 layers of kodatrace needed for my 8 seperate screens. It was a huge job but now I can look forward to getting this on a screen and being able to print, which is next weeks job!

Finally Finished!

After some long hours my design was finished by Friday, ready for me to start printing next week!

Just all the niggly technical bits to sort out first, lots of photocopying onto acetate, making the screens, registering them all so my design lines up and mixing colours...After that I should be ready to go!