Watercolour dolls

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with these thread drawings I painted watercolour on and let it drip and splash naturally to leave a trace. Even though I'm no longer working with these gestural embroiderys I used the drip affect when painting the dolls blush circles.

I videoed myself painting the large sheet on the wall and will post that soon for now premiere pro has me baffled.

I started screen-printing in order to create more dolls but began altering the subjects through print as well cutting separate and collaging together.

Starting Point

This was my starting point preserving people and place, at this point in my work I was focusing on psychogeography rather than process. These finished pieces didnt work as well in reality as they did in my head. After seeing the work of Cecile Mondrile I decided take a new route and made a doll figure from the gopro footage.

Cloth, ink ,thread.

This figure made me rethink my proposal I realised I was more interested in how the process changed the subject into a whole new entity rather than the psychogeographical nature of my work.

Memory object- Shirt

I scanned in all my sketchbook drawings and fit them together in Sequence and altered the levels for screen.

Printed on 3 cotton sheets of fabric

Fabric and pattern

Detail of the fabric. Some of the line drawings didn't come through but Pa told me afterwards when he saw them if I put more extender in the ink that they'd work so I'll know for the next time.

sleeve

Shirt in progress

Front 

Back

Embroidery

 The embroidery workshop with Marion after easter was so beneficial to my work. I had dappled with embroidery before on  paper but never on cloth with an embroidery hoop and I feel that this is where I want to go with my work in the future.

http://www.art21.org/artists/mark-bradford

Ink and straw

My drippy screenprints lead to a series of drawings which I made with ink and a straw.

Photography

Photos taken for digital project of home and the forest outside my work for digital images placing my memories back in their origonal surroundings.

Most of my drawings are done from the subject or from memory but I did work from photographs when I didn't have my sketchbook to hand.

under this objects drawing it says Da sleeps in kitchen. And he was asleep in the kitchen with a birds nest on the table...my home is strange.

Monoprints and drawings

I placed down string and printed in black to recreate the hair net

Glue and carbarundrum, thread and paper

grouping the objects together in a monoprint. I enjoy the process of monoprinting and intend to do more next year but I felt this print was unsucessful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LHQBzkjwx8

Digital Imagery

My objects are separated from any background or any human interaction but with my digital images I decided to put them back in their origonal settings.

I had wanted to change this particular image to make the words clearer and put it in my own handwriting but in the end i didnt get the time.

I don't usually go into depth about my objects meanings when they ask but this particular image is the only one that has two seperate memories attached. The "belly up" refers to things going belly up when I burnt milk at work on the gas ovens someone just said ah well that went belly up. The forest in the background is just outside where I work and it was where I was standing when I got the phonecall from my Mam saying that the house had went on fire. Things had well and truly gone belly up!