Friday 22 October 2010

basic wallpaper design...

I'm planning on just having this as the background, and then building up other designs on top/between the design...my main plan is to have my 2 square linen canvas' with lots of seeds growing on one and only one ungrowingseed on another, sitting on the walpaper on the wall.  On the side of the many seeded canvas,have the wallpaper busier behind it and very minimal on the side of the singular seeded canvas.  Let's just see how it goes!

Thursday 21 October 2010

screenprint finals so far...




feeling like im at a roots end...

So, I dont really know where I'm off too next with this project, in many ways I have more than enough to keep me busy but I dont feel like I have an idea that growing anywhere special.  Today I tried to take a leaf out of Claire Scullys book by drawing the seeds rather than just scanning them in, I did quite enjoy it and then I played with the images but I still can't find the next route to follow from here.
Here's my days work...


 This is just a pencil drawing on paper, scanned in and fiddled with.
And this is a basic idea of making the roots seem longer, to make an interesting continuing wallpaper pattern.
Older seedlings of my lettuces and rocket.  Trying to look at older roots, I seem to have an obsession with roots today...
The colourfulness and pretty bits of my fake roots.











Wednesday 20 October 2010

snipets of my work...

This was probably my starting point for this project.  I knew I wanted to be using horticulture in my work as I'm currently doing my RHS level 2 as well as this degree, and I very much got into my gardening over the summer, so it only feels and seems like the right thing to intergrate the two.
I really love images that have been worked by hand to be scanned in.  They seem to get a second depth to them because of the shadow.  I think it just enhances their quality and gives them a slight painterly style.

Notes at work, trying to fill up an empty space of my time.

A day at the screenprinting room...

researching other artists...

Karl Blossfeldt "Trollius europaeus (Europäische Trollblume)", Gelatin Silver Print. Blattgröße: 30,5 x 23,8 cm

Blossfeldt systematically documents plant samples photographically, which captures the smallest of detail by a great use of light and shade, and different processes of capturing the image.

Cornelia Hesse-Honegger 37 different Ladybird Beetles from Switzerland Watercolor, 1976 - 1981

She published her work in the magazine of the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger in January 1988. Swiss scientists, however, expressed criticism of her research, insisting that the fallout in Western Europe from the Chernobyl accident was too small to cause morphological disturbances in insects.

After this attack from the Swiss scientific community on her findings, Cornelia became even more intrigued about the effects of radiation on the health of insects. She wondered whether the insects living in the environs of Swiss nuclear power plants, which emit significantly lower levels of radiation than the fallout from Chernobyl, would therefore be healthy.

In 1989 Cornelia made her first trip to collect leaf bugs in the environs of the Swiss  

 Claire Scully Christmas wrapping paper design Her website...

Totally brilliant stuff and possible one of my favourite artists I'm researching for this project..so far anyway.  I'll have to see what else I can find to beat her.

Prospect Cottage, Derek Jarman's Garden, Dungeness, Kent

He is remembered for his famous shingle cottage-garden, created in the latter years of his life, in the shadow of the Dungeness power station.
The cottage's beach garden was made using local materials and has been the subject of several books, seeing how it would survive in the powerstations fumes.

Friday 8 October 2010

a new year, a new module, here we go again

Here's the beginning of my first module back.  It's a kinda do what you want module, but showing the processes you use, and I'm trying to use as many weird and wonderful processes I can, whilst including my new love of horticulture...