Badge Making

Over the last three wednesdays, we have been making badges for the exhibiton. We used images of our work that we liked and printed them out and turned them in to badges. I decided to print out drawings i had done of castles, roses covered in blood and my paper cut out castles. I thought they all looked really nice and really nicely presented in little bags and a nice cover to go ontop. When we had the private view Thursday I noticed a couple of people take a few of the badges I had made this made me feel really happy as I felt my work and myself were appricated.

My Final Project

For the exhibitoon i came up with a few ideas such as making a quilt or a wall hanging. After working with Stacie Cullen in paper making I realised that i wanted to do somethink relating to that.
The story I chose to do in the brothers Grimm project, was Little Breir Rose, (Sleeping Beauty). I tried to create work with the main icons in the story such as the spinning wheel, Little Brier Rose, the castle covered in thorns, the 12 good faries and the 13th bad fairy. I knew that I wanted to combine paper cutting and textiles together. So i created a number of paper cut outs of castles which didnt work out well and threw them in the bin. I then decide to do a paper cut of castles covered in thorns this took some time because they were very delicate and ripped after about my 1000 attempts i put the cut outs on to silk screens and created a series of prints on a variety of materials that i had chosen my self different colours different textures that i thought would worked well with the story. I also chose a variety of different inks. I then started to sew into them and stich into most of them and riped into them too.
Once I had done that I thought it would be a good idea to add faries into the design, which i thought would work well because of the story. So I collect most of the fairy images i had collected and got a black marker pen and coverd the image in ink. I then cut out the images and glued them onto A3 paper i then photocopied the images and then oiled them up and  put them onto a silk screen. I decided to use calaco material for the prints and also used a pale pink and lime green coloured inks for the faries.
After I had done that I then put the material into embroidery hoops and began to sew into the faries wings. When i had finished all of my work I then tacked the castle images onto the wall that I was using for the exhibiton and I then hung the embroidry hoops with the fairy wings from the ceiling using fishing wire. I thought this idea worked really well and it also looked nice at the end. I got a load of nice compliments from the public about my work.

Exhibition

Yesterday was the exhibiton for my course called 'work in process' we held the private view yesterday which was a sucess :D. Everyone helped each other to make the exhibiton a sucess. I really liked everyones work i liked how different each of the pieces were and how beautifully presented they were. I really liked Isla's shoes I loved how beautifully painful they look and how well presented they were. I think the exhibition was the perfect end to the first year of the new course :D