C & A Pants
Started making my C & A pants – after being advised to avoid chicken wire I used spot welding to create my pants. I then covered them with masking tape to conceal the wire and a little padding on the bottom
Printmaking workshop
Etching with hard ground and soft ground with some sketches generated from workshop
Reading week
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 […]
Stop frame with doll test
first attempt – needs much work!! and loss of hands and more stills – and a grater!
23/10/15 – wax experiment with hair/pigment
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 […]
20/10/2015 – casting – arms, hair, sewing and writing
Casting Finally managed to cast in wax today using alginite – I decided to use wax rather than plaster as I think it will work better with the hair and the properties feel more realistic and less lardy/clinical. I practiced sewing into the wax but wanted a surface mark to show under the skin too […]
The Birds
of the images that I printed out this animation kept my attention and although feels silly I would like to recreate this – I have loads of dolls at home so gonna give it a go – could either film or make a mechanism to make the doll move on its own
Tutorial with Andy – Reflection – 13/10/2015
As I explained to andy – I am currently feeling quite bombarded with information – ideas and things to do. I feel like I keep thinking of a million different ideas for work, that any new thing, talk, encounter seems to generate more ideas – and it feels a bit like an avalanche – and […]
Strategies in practice – Video – Gillian Wylde
found that the day was way out of my comfort zone put myself with people who I hadn’t worked with before and because they interested me and I thought they would be really interesting to work with. we brainstormed colloboratively, recorded sounds, horrible sounds, eating, cutting, stamping, cutlery, swearing, popping balloons, ripping, shaking we all […]
Reflection after week 2? – 02/10/2015
I am feeling positive about exploring different ways of working – enjoy and find useful the use of unreadable text and images amusing to me that the reader cannot read the narrative but still can view the marks still the use of limbs as a visual keeps coming up ( unsure where this comes from […]