Visit to the Turner Contemporary

Visit to the Turner Contemporary I visited the Turner to view the new Entangled:Threads and Making exhibition, which had a huge impact on my final zine. The exhibition was so magnificent and is definitely one of the best I’ve seen. Below are a view images from my trip:

Phils Workshop NO.2

Phils Workshop NO.2 Phil’s second workshop looked at drawing the face. A task I used to avoid, as I found it so hard. However, after Phil’s workshop I understood that maybe I was making it more difficult for myself. We used the method of drawing grids to help us draw what we see instead of…

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Screen Printing

Screen Printing  We had the opportunity to undertake a drop-in screen printing workshop, i decided to take this up as it is a method I’m very interested in. I took in inspiration from Melanie Bowels, Atelier Bingo and Amy French. Below is my work:                      …

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Martha Workshop No.5

Martha Workshop No.5 For Martha’s fourth workshop we look at putting together a magazine layout, such as columns, titles, A and B master pages, colours, page numbers etc. This was very helpful as I learnt the essential principles on indesign for putting together a professional layout. Below our screenshots of my work:

Martha Workshop No.4

Martha Workshop No.4 For Martha’s fourth workshop we looked at the colour wheel and experimented in Photoshop and the colour guides. This helped me get a basic understanding of the use of colour in Graphic Design. Below is my work:                  

Martha Workshop NO. 3

Martha Workshop NO. 3 In Marthas third workshop we worked on making our laser cut templates and practising how to do so. We all used a scanned illustration of a hand drawn title and then learned how to use the pen tool to trace over the text and use the ‘anchor, point and curve’ tools….

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Martha Workshop No.2

Martha Workshop No.2  For the second workshop with Martha, we looked at our masthead and tag lines and locking them up. We were given a tutorial and an exercise to draw out and lock up our titles. My work Below:                       This helped my understanding…

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London Trip- Saatchi Gallery & Tate Modern

London Trip- Saatchi Gallery & Tate Modern For this project I took a trip to London to visit exhibitions to gain inspiration for this project. First I visited the Saatchi Gallery and looked at the Print exhibition. Below are a few images from my visit:                    …

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Phil’s Drawing Workshop NO.1

Phil’s Drawing Workshop NO.1  In Phil’s first drawing workshop with us, we worked on our life drawing. Firstly we were told to spend 10 minutes drawing the woman, then after this we worked on Blind drawing and partial peep drawing. These exercises very much helped me, as illustration is not my best skill, I learned…

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Martha’s Workshop- Handglovery

Martha’s Workshop- Handglovery We had our first workshop with Martha where we were taught about the 5 principles of Design and were told to find out about ‘Handglovery’. 5 Design Principles: 1- BALANCE 2- REPETITION 3- CONTRAST 4- ALIGNMENT 5- HIERARCHY From these design principles we were given three outlines sheets for Alignment, contract and…

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