Pathways Week 3

This is where the final weeks on pathways jumbles a bit because I missed a session due to a job interview, BUT not to worry as this post will be completely understandable and overall the blog is organised.

3D:
In the 3D workshop, I worked on wire sculpture, more specifically drawing with wire. I have previously spot welded before so the skills acquired where still to my knowledge. Working from a larger image of one of my drawings in my sketch book, I created a flat wire sculpture of the drawing. To do this I used various sizes of wire, pliers, a spot welder and various techniques to sculpt wire.

Elizabeth Berrien:

Elizabeth Berrien is a wire artist working in both 3D wire drawings as well as 3D sculptures. She has really intricate detail and likeness in her work, knowing how difficult wire sculpture is these pieces are very skilled. I like in the fireman piece how she managed to create a sense of depth.

Laura Antebi:

Laura Antebi is a 3D sculpture artist who uses wire. most of her work is animal based where she uses recycled wire fencing to create her sculptures. I like how she used spray paint on her wire work to add colour to her wire sculpts. I also like how she works into her wire sculptures later with other materials like with the divers helmet where she has used steel bars.

I created the overall structure simply by tracing and welding the wire to form the shape. After getting the major areas in I treated the wire like a normal drawing and put in a center line to the head so I could attatch the face. After the face was finished I tied thin wire the top of the drawing and shaped it to form hair. Lastly I needed to emulate a beard and eye brow, to save time and repetativity, I took the initiative to create a technique that would cover a thicker area, to interperet a beard AND look like a drawing at the same time. To do this I curled wire around a pen into a coil and spot welded it to the sides of the face. I did this for 4 coils.
The finished piece is below, but what's better I personally think is the shadow cast by the drawing. The silhouette acts more like a drawing than the wire.

How the shadow casts the drawing

Textles:
For textiles we looked at Manutex printing, which is a style of screen printing using industrial inks. The process involves painting an image or pattern onto a silk screen with ink, turning the screen and scraping Manutex onto the screen which creates a transfer.

I couldn't find any manutex artists in general, but here are some silk screen printers who use the same methods.

Andy Warhol:

Andy Warhol is the biggest name in both screen printing and pop art. He often uses popular American icons such as Marilyn Monroe as the subject for his work and creates various coloured prints of his images. I chose to look at some of his pieces out of the main attention and picked these two pieces. They both have a macabre feel to them based on the subject and colour. These two pieces are good examples of how colour works, for example would these two pieces work as well replacing the red with a blue. The red is a warning for danger giving the two pieces their edge.



Ben Rider:

Ben Rider creates comedic and I would say commercial images. I can see his work being used for things like T-Shirt designs. what I like about his subjects is the humour and in the case of the Frankenstein prints I really like the background colours. The backgrounds are really bright and vibrant and make nice surfaces for the black print.


I worked on a few surfaces to create images from both dolphinholme and my research but not having much success with the method. Here are my unsuccessful results

I later realised that because I was working on a wet silk screen, the ink was bleeding. I finally dried the screen and tried 1 last time and it worked successfully.