have been researching types of movie/images that appeal to me and have added a few really enjoyed the Quay Brothers animations for their content and the way in which they animate and mix stop frame black and white with colour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtT3e3exJA0
Have made a positive start on printing onto my steel plates – used the screen printing process but with stopout – dipped plates for 15 minutes and took some prints – really happy with contrast now ready to weld into grater – and no worry of being flammable as all ink removed – can re […]
order metal rods to make large cheese grater started to make maquette for bird wings for second grater – have researched kinetic wings and found a perfect design which I am trying to recreate and adapt (www.mymodernnet.com) looked at using balsa wood, cables/buttons, string/cables – looked at elastic band wind up mechanism. decided to make […]
Trip to the second hand shop to pick up some shoes ready to cast. I felt a bit odd about picking up the shoes that will have no practical purpose. I think it will be good for me to step away from direct personal memory – perhaps a way to work that may be easier […]
I found a shoe in the road on my way to college – it was a small child’s gym shoe. It looked like a scene of a crime, a car accident perhaps. I guess the only crime was that this child had dropped the shoe whilst crossing the road. It was still there when I […]
I really like this idea of stepping out from what you are working on to take on a different project/different set of instructions. It generated so many ideas and I am definately going to carry some out. It might be good for me to perhaps prepare myself one set of instructions per week and become […]
I would love to make more casts of arms and legs but cannot afford to spend money on alginate – I looked for cheap and easy ways to take casts and saw a u tube of creating form using cling film and sellotape to wrap around limbs – made quite a few but not […]
Experimenting with wax, pigment and layers – inserting hair into wax as it sets, sewing into using heated needles. Carving and using inks looks messy but can adjust afterwards, tried acrylic but it looks too contrived and not part of the wax. The sewing with the heated needle only really works to attach or hang […]