Fine art and Textiles. Unit 18

The day started with fine art. We were shown works of art by Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richerter and John Stezaker because these three all used photographs as a base for their work. From these artist we were to create our own piece of fine art using photographs we could find. After a bit of a rummage though the boxes of magazines I found a clothing advert. I decided to add a small landscape in-front of the woman and this is the result.

How does this link to my work with The Reef? What I see in The Reef is a godlike figure above a chaotic sea. Here I see a godlike figure causing a milking vengeance. It also has a clash of old with new, something I might try to add with other pieces of work.

 Here is my 2nd piece. I Thought it would look good to mash these two cars that were in the same advert. Again it has a clash of old and new. I'm not really a big fan of it but it's a step towards my final work.

Textiles was a lot more hands on. We were quickly taught how to mono-print. Here is my first attempt of hand drawing The Reef into a print.

I then did the same but from a tracing of my photograph of The Reef. It was quite hard to trace the image because the photocopied image was very dark.
Here is the print and the tracing.

I then printed onto fabric using the traced image.This turned out much better than the others because I had less ink. Leaving the lines crisp and clear.

I then tried sewing. I felt like I was doing it wrong some how so I quickly moved on to using the Bond-a-web. I did the rookie mistake, forgetting that the shape I draw on the Bond-a-web will be reversed. So now my cloud looks more like a heart. I then used the sewing machine to secure the blue fabric. I'm sure I have drawn circles with straighter lines...

Time for another print. This time it's green and slightly up and to the left of the last one. Again I had too much ink. Opps. It adds to the messy look...
You might also notice that the bottom corner is now missing. I accidentally sewed it to the back of the blue cloud-heart. Textiles doesn't seem to be my thing. :P