Petri Dish Responses

I decided to create some response drawings to the petri dish paintings. I wanted to be loose and free with the paintings. I recreated the concept of spreading and contamination, letting the colours bleed into one another. The colours also ran out of the original oval shape creating interesting shapes and forms that representing growths within the petri dish. I have incorporated one of the drawings into a collage. I tried incorporating a body into the petri dish, I don't feel this works as well  as the painting on its own. I feel it is too obvious with it's suggestion, furthering this idea, I am going to strip it right back. Working with layers to create a more contemporary and original piece.

Visual research

I have started drawing so I can start making them into motifs to take further and explore in digital and screen print.

Figure Drawings

Black and white motifs.

I started drawing motifs to take into photoshop and onto screen in the print room, I went to the science and industry Museum in Deans gate to get some detailed drawing of machinery and bolts. Here are a few examples. I also looked at some original architectural drawings , looking at line quality.

Rearranging Images

This week I have been experimenting with my drawings cutting them up and rearranging them in a different composition. As geometric shapes have been key in my project so far I tried to rearrange my drawings using these elements. I like the first drawing I think it works well with the black background, I think the second drawing looks too separate and static behind the white background.

Drawing

Here are a few of my early drawings I have done ready for my tutorial. I feel like I need to do a lot more research and drawing. Looking at details but also thinking of drawing for design. I need a lot more drawings which I can then take forward into the print room and photoshop.

Brief-Urban Influences

I have chosen the urban influences brief mainly because I am constantly inspired by architecture , city scapes and people. I love drawing from observation and so I thought this would be a great brief for me to create a lot of inspiring work . I started off this brief by attending the urban sketching workshop in the media city. It was great to go and draw somewhere different and I enjoyed seeing other peoples work and see how they approach drawing different types of architecture. After this workshop I also went around Manchester drawing a mixture of historical and modern buildings using fine liners with coloured inks on top.

Brian Barrat and Maija Louekari

I found these two textile designers when looking at artist research for my final prints. Brian Barrat has digitally designed these prints starting from his own detailed drawings. He has drawn and gathered images and layered and compiled them using digital and hand techniques to create something beautiful. He has a simple colour palette that works extremely well. His inspiration was British wildlife and taxidermy so his work is very similar to mine but on a more minimalistic level.

The second designer I looked at was Maija Louekari. Maija is a finnish designer who became successful very early on. She uses a lot of drawing and colour in her work. She also combines this with linear lines and geometric shapes. She uses a vibrant colour combination and expressive motifs. Maija also draws from natural and organic form using observational drawing as a basis to all of her work.

City Details.

To kick start my project, I decided to go on my own journey so I walked to the centre of Manchester recording details that interested me en route. I recorded this journey using a mixture of photographs and drawings. I decided to be expressive in my drawing using a wide range of materials.

Drawing from Inspiration Boards.

I started with drawing from the boards that I was most inspired by. I'm drawn to linear, geometric shapes and so I feel confident drawing buildings.

These drawings are very simple, I was trying to recreate the shape and not tone. i think they work well as they have a graphics feel to them.

I'm drawn to colour so I decided to work more expressively with materials and scale. I like the colours of the ink mixed in with the teabag stains. I have tried to be expressive but trying to keep the textured properties of the teabag.

On this drawing I concentrated on tone. I used
bold material to recreate the darkness of the
sculpture. I gave myself a time scale and I think
it works as the material keeps the texture of the 3D object.














One of the objects I picked to draw was a triangle sculpture made out of multicoloured plastic bags. I was fluid in my drawing using inks and then a finaliser over the top to show shape.

Buildings and Sculpture.

Our brief was to collect primary research on our theme. This included drawings, photos and 3D objects which we could then go on to draw from. I was very inspired by this day as it was very hands on and good to go out and collect relevant objects.
It was hard to start at the beginning but I found it easier to go out and explore my surroundings.

Liverpool Journey

I decided to draw parts of the exhibitions that interested me. At the end of the day I had a combination of varied drawing. I liked the order of a set of posters so I decided to use this ordering idea with the presentation of my work.