A breakdown of Heikala

(Heikala, 2019) In 2019 Heikala released her most in depth book yet, giving a detailed look at her inspirations, processes, methods, and meaning to her artwork along with more insight into her own life and her education within the arts. As one of my favourite artists when she released the pre-order for this book I

Skills Development: Drawing from reference

I decided to sign up for an account with the website https://line-of-action.com which offer a range of human and object references to draw in hopes to improve skills and develop unique ways to draw. They offer lessons, timed sessions, and more. When signing up I was offered the opportunity to buy a membership which can

Embroidery: Computerised Research

Working with embroidery by hand has been a lot of fun, however due to the large scale and detail on the design I am working on I think it will be beneficial to work with the machine we have so I plan to make 2 small patches that will use 2 colours and 3 colours

Embroidery: Working by hand

As part of one of my units I intend to utilise the sewing machine available at my place of education that uses a flat image to translate to the patch creation. With this equipment I can select colours within the image and apply a number to it, that number will link to a bobbin in

Screen Printing: Introduction + Process

Today we have had a workshop introducing us to a new screen printing process as the college has provided us with a new screen print maker. It has been fun to experiment with some different ways of utilising these tools with different colours, prints, and textures. As well as a quick look at some other