Print Making Workshop

We began by collecting images of our interests that we had also included in our sketchbooks.
I had done a few pages about my interests in tattoos and nature, so I combined the two;

I then traced my design on to tracing paper and used that as a base for when I cut it out of the lino with tools;

We were then advised to include a lino artists work, so I included parts of pre-existing work that worked into my theme of nature;

I was then ready to start printing on black paper, brown, white whichever I felt would match the wide range of colours that were available to be applied using rollers;

An artist for us to consider incorporating and some of his work;

I enjoyed this workshop because I was able to try something new, I now have a basic understanding of new techniques to apply to my work, if I want the visual effect of a repeated pattern on whatever texture/materials that I may want or need and I find this useful information.

Photography Workshop

 To start, we were paired up and asked to take portraits that were creative, given the materials we had to work with, portraits that captured the personailty of our partner.

Then, using whatever materials we could see in the room, take self portraits that were unconventional.

 I took this self portrait using the reflective screen of a Mac;

 Creating a distorted image using aluminium foil;

Self portraits that didn't involve our faces, that still expressed something about ourselves;

(The red string symbolises our ties to fate which is a popular belief in Japan.)

Trip to Civic exhibition

Colour Mixing

We began by tying hair back, putting on a plastic apron and gloves when we were then assigned a colour to create.

I was given this shade of purple;

First, I took a 50ml scoop and filled that with the mixer from the barrel and poured that into a plastic cup;

I then took my wooden mixing stick and dipped the very end in 'Brill Red' and mixed that into the mixture, then getting a new stick to add a drop of 'Blue'.

The colour was then too dark and not the pink/purple shade that I needed to create.

So I then added the smallest amount of  'Brill Violet' and 3 half scoops of colour mixture to finally get the colour that I needed;