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Back At University!
Hello everyone!
I am back working at the University Of Sunderland, an I’m in my second year (stage 2) of BA Hons Fine Art. So, here is the story so far, since I’ve already been back for a couple of weeks.
I have started a new project in which I’m not entirely clear on what I’m doing. I want to continue to explore the space using installation, but I want to do something different than what I produced in my last project. So Over the past couple of weeks, I have picked up from where I left off, building boxes and making designs for installation space. Trouble is, it’s not really getting me anywhere fast at the moment. I did on the other hand, have a tutorial with one of my tutors, which spawned the idea of exploring why I’m making the boxes that I make. Since I enjoy making the boxes, but have no real reason as to why I’m making them, my tutor suggested going deeper into that topic, into why I am making them.
So that’s what I’m up to so far; I’ve made some boxes, and have a couple of ideas for temporary installations. I will continue making boxes, and will contemplate and research similar papers about how we get so fascinated with making certain things. I will also be making some installations over the next couple weeks, as well as dipping my hand into 3D modelling and 3D printing.
But for the time being, here are some photo’s of my space, my work, and the area in which I’ve been producing these boxes.
Enjoy.
Project One – Week Six
Hi everyone!
Over the past week I’ve been working with 3d modeling software and been making good use of the 3d printer that is at the university. The images below are some of the items I’ve been printing with the 3d printer and it shows the evolution of the objects and how they progress.
Enjoy.
Mono-Printing Workshop
Hi everyone! 
So last Wednesday I had a mono-printing workshop; it was a little workshop for everyone to learn how to use the space and how to make mono-prints. To make a mono-print you need to place a small amount of print ink onto a flat surface (a sheet of metal is best, a surface with ins’t your desk), you then use a roller to spread the ink into a thin layer in the shape of a small square, roughly a bit larger than an A4 sheet of paper; this is your ink-well prepped. To prep your work surface, you need to set out the paper you’re using into an easy to access pile. Have any tools easy to access too, as you don’t want to be looking through drawers with inky hands. Once your work space is set, grab a new clean roller, roll over your ink-well, and roll over another flat surface (like before, not your desk space. You want a surface you can move to a sink to clean. Depending on the ink you use, it could be hard to remove it from the surface). Once you’ve prepped your printing surface, place a scrap piece of paper onto the ink and lightly rub the paper. This is to remove any excess ink; to prevent your work being too inky. Lift the page and place a clean piece onto the surface.
At this point, it’s your decision on what you do. You can draw onto the page of the paper and the ink will pick it up on the other side as a mirror image. You can use any item to make an impression onto the page, your hand, a pen, a toothbrush, etc. When you have drawn your image, peel the paper off the ink, the image you have drawn will be on the other side of the paper. At this point, you could place another piece of paper on to the image and make a series of mono-prints. If your image comes out too faded, you need to roll your roller in to the ink-well, and roll a new layer of ink onto your work surface, and repeat the process.
For the workshop I had to make a couple of prints to learn how the ink would appear onto the page. After that we were told to try and make images using the process. The first image is my practice piece. The rest of the images are my work pieces. I aimed for a cosmic look, and I believe a few turned out the way I wanted.
Enjoy.
Railston Artworks 