Working Bigger

I felt the need to start working on a larger scale so this painted cardboard piece is my starting point.It represents teh idea of colour, line and city scapes. I plan on working on top of this base to create something more interesting.

Ceramics

I have moved onto the reason of why we sometimes try to hide from our Urban Environment.

Gossip was one of the main reasons I could think of that people would want to hide away. These ceramic pieces represent common words of our everyday lives. The wors are removeable, showing t he ides of putting words into other peoples mouths.

Since this picture was taken , I have refined the outlines of the pieces and added holes to allow them to be hung like a mobile, or at least this is my intention.

Hopefully they will be fired and ready for glazing sometime next week. I then hope to further this aspect of my project by moving onto working with teh nastier form of gossip and seeing how I can change the shapes of the lips according to what words are being said.

Monoprint

This monoprint was created using acetate stencils which I made from my make-up cut outs which remind me of city sky lines. The make-up theme fits into my project as one of the ways we hide ourselves in our Urban Environment.

First Woodblock

These three prints are of my first 2 woodblocks. As you can see I forgot that they would come out backwards when printed but I learned my lesson!

The theme here is that of 'airing your dirty laundry'.

In this print, I blocked out the writing that was in the leg-hole of the underwear using paper.

Photoshop to Paint

I began trying to re create exactly my photoshopped image using acrylic paints but the method was too restricting.

So I abandoned the 'perfect' approach which i generally veer towards and got looser with the paints. I think the image improved and I much preferred this style.

Print introduction

Thursday morning , I spent in the print room experimenting with the materials and equipment. The piece is only a rough idea but it was helpful to get me thinking on what I would really like to produce with print.
   I plan to work more with mono-printing next week.

3D washing lines

These are images of my 3d washing lines. This includes the smaller practice version , made from white card, and my papier mache piece.

The larger is my more recent work {this weeks} which is being covered layer by layer in wallpaper paste and paper to build up its stability.

The initial cardboard fell apart when I left it over night but I re assembled it and hopefully it will be ok after the weekend!

Content of my Work to Date

Content of My Work to Date (1/11/2010)

Urban Environment

Erin Delaney

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·         Initial research including photographic study of my Urban Environment, an illustration and investigation of these images using sketching, painting, batik and combined materials.

·         Development of the conceptual aspect of my research; what do I see in these collected images? How do they affect me?

·         Focusing on how we cover ourselves up; make-up city skylines with magazine stencils, ‘Lipstick Jungle’ Photoshop and painting. Looking at pixilation and the creative possibilities.

·         ‘Airing your Dirty Laundry’; work centred round urban laundry and clothes washing habits.

 3D mini washing line from card with wire washing                                                 

Line drawing inspired by image of an urban washing line

Felted image of a washing line

·         Contextual research and investigation of others work which relates to my topic.

·         Evidence of learning to knit though not yet project related.

·         3D textiles work; re-vamping your unwanted laundry into useful garments. Top and jacket from jeans and personalised boots from scrap material produced to date.