Art Foundation

As part of a workshop, I took a drawing which I had done, which I felt would look good on a large scale, and began by making a sellotape transfer. The drawing I used was a fineliner sketch in which was one of my drawings for inktober. I used this one as the skull had simple contours, which I felt would translate well onto a larger scale. I felt this as it was in black and white, had no shading and a variety of dark and light areas. I also felt that the cross hatching I did instead of shading would translate well on any scale. To make a sellotape transfer, I had to photocopy the image I wanted, and then place sellotape over the top, ensuring it overlaps. Once I had done this, I took some water, and wet the paper side and rubbed the paper off. It somes off and leaves the ink from the photocopier on the sellotape, creating a transparent copy of the image. I used the projector to project my drawing onto the wall, where I'd stuck up a sheet of large paper. I then decided to use a bl...

Since doing the acrylic transfer workshop, I decided I wanted to go back in after I've done some artist research and look into adding more colours into my work, but keeping it to a limited colour palette as inspired by Ed Moses. Moving on from the last set of experiments, I wanted to focus on using the primary colours/ a simple colour palette to create prints. I decided to use the continuous line drawing of my car I drew. I chose this as I felt its personal to me, and I want to work more onto metal and more obscure surfaces, so by printing a car, its liking the subject into the background, as cars are commonly made of metal. To create the above piece, I found a strip of metal, in which I cleaned, and the prepped. I took 4 photocopied of my drawing and selected the colours I wanted to print with. I chose the primary colours to keep it simple. The key to being able to print in colour and having sections transparent is by using clear gloss acrylic on the areas you want to stay tra...

We took part in a workshop where we learnt the technique of acrylic transfering. We first began by selecting pieces of our work which we could use to do this process. I wanted to use simple drawings I've done so I can work on top of the pieces and add colour, to link it back to unit 1. The first piece I chose to do was a continuous line drawing of my car. biro line drawing of my car vinyl tile On the left is the original drawing I did in black biro. To create a tranfer you need to photocopy the photo to make a carbon copy, to allow it to tranfer onto the acrylic. I made two photocopies of this drawing, one in black and I did one in red too, to see how the colour would effect the outcome. I then had to choose the surfaces to print this on. I chose a vinyl tile and some black card as the two surfaces to print this on. To begin, using a brush or palette knife, white acrylic is spread onto the surface in an even layer, not too thin. I found it hard to get am even smoo...