Stacey Hughes

Tuesday, 6 May 2014

Textiles-Skins

I started off by doing a mind map of what type of skins there is and what I could use. I started of by doing animal skin but the majority of my class are doing animals so I thought I would keep it simple and go for human skin. Before researching further into human skin I did a little bit of research on paint.

Here are a couple of images I found within my research

I really like the effect of the paint that has dried and peeled off.

Research into human skin:
I researched into human skin and I found two that I liked which were dry and oily.

After doing this I researched further into it and products that people use on skin.
I came u with a range of ideas such as:

Face masks
Makeup
Fake tan
Face paint

I really liked the idea of face paint so I went on and painted some faces.This image is just half a painted face I did a rainbow.

Here is a group pf people whos faces i painted i painted them the day of the dead doll style.

After doing these faces I feel I wouldnt be able to take it any further and extend on it so I decided to look at other things on skin like tattoos.

Henna tattoos

I have looked into henna tattoos and found out that henna also refers to the dye prepared from the plant and the art of temporary tattooing based on those dyes. Henna is used to due skin, hair and fingernails, as well a fabrics.

Here below I have done some henna tattoos on my hand.

Before tattooing if the tattoo isnt being done free hand the tattooist carbons a drawing up. This is done by getting a picture of the tattoo and tracing it onto tracing paper then getting some carbon paper and put it underneath the tracing paper with the blue side up then draw back over the image and when youve drawn around it all if you lift the tracing paper up it will have blue/black in on the other side.

This image below shows the blue/black ink that is ready to put onto the skin.

After carboning up a drawing you then put either stencil cream or watered down dettol on the skin to clean it and also to make the stencil work and the ink will stick the the cream, if the skin is dry the ink wont transfer. Here I have put the stencil on myself but it didnt turn out very well as i just used water.

I have primary research which is my own tattoos. I have half a sleeve all in black grey white with a twist of red.

After looking at tattoos I thought I could try tattoos on different types of skin and see what works best. Here I have used tattoo practice skin and just done some little doodles

Here are a couple of pictures of me practicing on tattoo practice skin. I wrapped it around an empty bottle because when you tattoo a person their arm/leg ect. isn't flat.

Whilst in the process off tattooing on different skins I put modrock on a mannquin waited for it to dry and then painted it.

After doing this i went on to draw tattoo deaigns onto the mannquin and they are ready to paint.

Here i have carboned up a rose and printed it onto my friends arm after doing this i then coloured it in using sharpies thia is what it looked like after

Life drawing

Life drawing techniques:

Here are a couple of pictures of my life drawing. I really enjoyed doing life drawing rather than using materials like wire as they are too fiddly. Firstly, I used pencil to get used to drawing a figure in front of me as I have never done this before also so I could get used to the technique. I used pencil first because I am used to this material and felt comfortable starting with it.

Here I have used acrylic paint I have used blues and yellows to show the dark and light shades as skin is not all one colour. I prefer working in colour rather than black and white.

After using paint I went on to use charcoal also I did a little bit of research about contour lines

Research: Contour lines

When drawing you need to pay attention to the curve of the form, but also the perspective of the form.

Charcoal- I really enjoyed using charcoal as it is light on the paper and it shows where the shadowing is on the model also it makes the light on the model stand out.

After including contour lines withinh my drawings I started to work on black paper using white chalk to show where the light was on the body. I found this harder than dark shades showing where the shadow is.

I went on to download an app onto my phone called sketch up and sat in front of the model I found this really easy to use and really enjoyed using it here is a couple of pictures.

After using this app I felt I should try out different techniques so I went on to using the material which I feel I can work best with which is charcoal and attached my charcoal to the end of a long stick. After doing this I went on the add detail with by hand.

I really enjoyed using a stick as I felt it worked best for me. I found I could get the body proportion size better and more accurate being stood further away from my page and that I could go back after to add detail.
Matisse-
He was willing to go to great lengths to achieve a good quality line! It could be that drawing with a pole was a self-imposed sort of handicap, to keep the drawings of this masterful draftsman fresh. Sometimes having too much skill can actually be a liability when it comes to making art, so a technique like this can provide a balance.