Category: Digital Residencies

Nia, Seren, Bella

A record of how we used paper in different ways throughout the residency .

Seren/Nia/Bella

We’re starting to bring our paper elements together…

Bella, Nia, Seren

Having made our own paper, lino printed it and paint splattered, we are now working on bending, folding and cutting it to create 3D objects based on organic forms. Not focusing on replicating life forms but seeing where the medium of paper can be taken through colour and manipulation.

Seren

Exploring various creatures and themes in 3D and some sketches, before starting to work out how to use the folded, spattered paper in our final residency week.

This week we have been transforming paper that we painted and made last week. It has been fun trying out some new techniques and experimenting with something different.
Our recycled paper doesn’t like to bend to much as the fibers were still quite big even after all the blending. It was lovely to print onto as it had all the texture.
The painted cartridge paper however really held the form we gave it and so could me more elaborate cuts without the paper crumbling. We were able to make small structures that could bend and fold in their own way which will hopefully come in handy next week.

Seren

For me, making starts with collecting things – anything really that catches my eye and might be useful later. At the moment I’m a bit obsessed with collecting ring pulls from cans!

Result of this week’s collections: experimenting creating textures with scales from an old piece of clothing…

Isabella W

While I have been away I have been able to fill the first couple pages of my new little sketchbook. As my traveling kit isn’t huge I have stuck with a HB pencil and practiced my perspective drawing as well as understanding where light is coming from. These are all 5 minute sketches. It’s been so nice to get back to my little drawings.

On top of the paper we previously made and the splatter pieces that we worked on individually, we did some lino printing. This type of printing is technically simple and fairly quick to do in comparison to other types of printing methods, which allows the artist to print images quickly and efficiently.

At home I decided to continue the idea of recycling old paper, and chose to rework a piece I’d previously made during my Foundation Course; adding more paint splatters and cutting it into reasonable sizes to later print on.