Live brief Pattern Mash

For my live brief this year, I participated in a Pattern Mash task called Prints of Persia. This was perfect for me as the brief was quite similar to my own brief so I was able to marry the both together and create some prints for it. I used the same mono printing technique and used photoshop to layer different sections up. I also did some drawing which I placed on top of the textures as a motif.

Mid point Review

To mark the middle point of our unit we were given the task to do a five minute presentation on our work so far. I don't normally enjoy these types of tasks as I work myself up and get very anxious. But I was feeling a little more confident after our 2 tutor crit. This task gave me the opportunity to reflect over my work and look at my journey. I was also able to interact with my peers and watch their presentations this gave us the opportunity to give positive feedback to each other which also gave me confidence a boost as the feedback I received was very good. I tried to show my enthusiasm and my journey right from the beginning to help everyone develop an understanding about my concept. I included initial work, current work, artist research, direction and context in my presentation.

Mono-printing

This week I have started mono-printing. So far, this has been very successful for me as it takes into consideration the restrictions I have put on myself and the colours merge themselves beautifully. I use a large piece of glass and use a roller to paint over it and place a paper over the paint and draw patterns and designs I have picked out from my research. Mono-printing has also allowed me to merge new found research with my old research because the textures that the paper picks off the glass    is something that was vital to me in my beginning research, the textures of spice and henna was something I really wanted my work to portray. The paisley patterns and Islamic shapes and geometry combined with textures is something that excites me and portrays my message of my culture.

Research

I have been spending time in researching and learning more about myself and my culture I've tried to look at different types of culture with in a muslim community and Islamic art itself. There are so many inspirational things that I have found interest me and drive my work. As I have found many pictures that inspire me I've decided to put a few restrictions on myself and only give myself a limited colour palette red, blue, and gold (black and white being optional). Allowing these colours to mix and merge themselves with out me having any control over the colour they create themselves is another aspect I have decided to Include.

Foam-board printing

Ive decided to try different techniques of drawing so I've started of with foam-board. Ive scratched shapes and patterns into the foam which I then painted over and made a print with. At the moment I feel my work is quite simple and need I need to push it bait further by trying different things using different techniques that I have looked at so far.

Faig Ahmed

Faig Ahmed is an artist I came across whilst researching into Laurent Mareschal. Faig ahmed is another artist who uses Islamic pattern and inspiration in his work. He used traditional Azerbaijan carpets and manipulated sections of the traditional weave by pixilating and modernising them. The paisley patterns and shapes caught my interest so I decided to look further into Islamic pattern and design.

http://www.faigahmed.com/works/carpets/

2 tutor Crit

My experience of two tutor crit was a good one, I was able to express my enthusiasm and love for my work and explain my journey to my peers an tutors with confidence. Although it was a short minute long talk I was able to squeeze in all the information about my summer research, explain my personal journey and my work so far. I was pleased with this successful presentation as I usually am a nervous person. We were asked to choose between three different places, Airport, Toilet, Church to decide where out work could be displayed. I chose church as i feel it may be a place where my cultural references and inspiration may not be displayed and i enjoy sharing my life, culture and work with everyone.