Formal Practice (1)

Formal Practice was a way to develop our skillsets and thinking from A-level. This was a particularly beneficial part of the course for me as my approach to creating became one of experimentation and development than complete consideration to final outcomes. 

Printmaking- exploration using tissue paper and pencil to create fragile marks within the inks. 

Drawing with watercolour and inks drawing was a weaker area for me during the course. However, I found ways around this, such as breaking down images I wanted to draw into composite shapes, and I draw using the silkscreen for my print works. 

Material Manipulation and print design

-- Delicate samples of hand-rendered screen print, sewn into, combined practices.

- Prints by screen and manual using cut stencils

- mixed media stencil prints, using tissue paper and pencil

- first introduction to screenprint, hand drew design transposed through alternate colourways and worked into

- Spatial design encouraged alternative thinking and helped me re-evaluate how I create new work and how materials can be manipulated into new images, using light, shadow and reflection. 

printed photographs on acetate manipulated with stitch and tape to create alternate shapes, using light to create shadow

Digital edits to recreate these images further. 

Book Binding - 

Producing an outcome such as a book allowed me to visualise a commercial element to my work as well as see my print designs as book covers and application to interiors