More wax

Blues and greens melted together and scratched away to form a pattern

New approach

Wax paintings layering up colours and scratching a pattern into the wax

More printing

Invite I'm making for lectures

Printing

Printing onto carpet :) how I'm trying new materials

BUTTONS

Never do I ever want to see a button again

I filled a pair of canvas shoes with buttons for a silent auction at university now I never want to see a button ever again

Pattern prints

This is a picture of my screen printed pattern onto different materials, I.e carpet, cloth and paper

The start of a pattern branding?

Pushing my pattern forward

Pattern

This is my rose pattern I love the colour scheme and think by doing it by hand gives it a textured look and not look flat

Patterns

This looks like the start of some wall paper making mmmmm what to do next?

ready for plaster mould

i have made the same buttons but in earthenware clay and going to make a plaster mould so i can create glass buttons too.

my favourite small button

i really love this small patterned button i just love the texture to it

patterned small buttons

smaller buttons

before they go into the kiln

before they go into the kiln and fired to 1060 bisque firing i just love all the detail that the porcelain picks up

button on a button

This is a porcelain button with different shapes and textures of buttons pushed into the clay with wholes cut out to represent a button

other porcelain buttons

This is a picture of several porcelain buttons with different materials and objects pushed onto the clay

This is my porcelain button with lace pushed into the clay to give it an embossed feel

Ceramic and textile badge

This is a porcelain button with lace pattern pushed into it and fired to a bisque fire and backed with recycled plastic shaped bug and sewn onto a piece of material

My current work

My current work photograph by josh cockcroft

Button prints

I'm playing around with my button print on different materials I:e chiffon paper textiles using brown acrylic paint mixed with acrylic printing medium and another layer of white ontop

Glass screen prints

I am working with layers of glass with prints and include my material prints too. I am going to put my glass in the water jet cutter so I can have a running stitch going through the layers of glass

Screen printed piece

I screen printed onto paper using acrylic paint and acrylic based media it's an image of lace

Screen printing

This is an image of my screen I'm using to screen print on glass and fabrics

Drawings

These small drawings I'm working on are for visual research to put into my glass art work, I have used just a pencil to create the different textures and tones! My next step is to progress these drawings further in colour, layered up and in both glass and textiles.

Recycled flowers

These flowers are made from recycled polystyrene and ironed down to let the air out of them! Then sewn together in a flower shape and added 2 buttons in the middle to finish them off! They didn't take long to make and are easy to make too. I am really happy with the out come and hope to make a lot more

Productive day at Uni

Doing presentations at university and this was the outcome.

Small prints

This is a picture from my small sketchbook, of button prints onto different backgrounds.

Drawings

This is a page from my sketch book, I love to work freely and very messily stitching into patterns or objects.

Another cut out

This is my favourite cut out I've done so far, I love how the colours work and how the imagery tells a story through paper.

Start of the cut outs.

I've started to make paper cut outs with images of roses, buttons, silhouettes and birds and then layering them up and stitching into the cut outs! Ive started to work on a scale of 15cm by 15cm to begin with but my aim is to work bigger. I will then translate the cut out paper onto glass with prints and layering up! I really want to cut wholes through the layers to create a running stitch and weave my own printed material through the wholes.

Finished piece

Screen printing

This is a picture of a friend and his brother that I have photoshopped and stamped. I then cut three layers of bullseye glass at 12cm x 15cm and screen printed on top of one layer. Let it dry for an hour and then cleaned the other two layers of glass and then layered them into the kiln making sure that the print is sandwiched between the two clear glass pieces. I programmed the kiln to go up to 804 degrees and soak for 15 minutes and we will have to see how it turns out tomorrow once it comes out of the kiln.

My desk is tidy for once!

This is my studio space and my desk is actually tidy.

Water jet project

This was a project I did on a water jet cutter cutting both the carpet wood and glass. I designed my work on rhino 4.0 and then transformed that into the programme for the water jet cutter. I screwed all the layers onto a plain white wall in the way I designed it on Rhino.

First project in third year of my degree

This post is my recent pieces of work, a combination of textiles and ceramics. At the minute I am trying to combine glass, ceramics and textiles together to either make an installation piece or a wearable piece. As you can see from the image i have created my own print and lino printed onto a piece of material and sew padding on the back to give it depth. I then made ceramic porcelain buttons with lace pressed into the clay, biscuit fired them to 800 degrees and stitched them onto my fabric.

This image is like inspiration "a walk to university" just love this picture so much i thought i would start my blogging with this picture.