Victoria Hough

I have been inspired by an artist called Victoria Hough. Alongside being a college lecturer she makes personalised canvases using textiles. I have included her in my work as it reminds me of House and Home. Vicky inspired me to print on to wood. And thats how I have had the idea to do an old fashioned wooden sign. I love the textiles part of it but the brief says I must do a print, but I will still use the style of Vicky.

 

Vicky has also done a print. This was a lino print which was in fact about 'House and Home' containing the phrase 'Home Sweet Home' the phrase I was planning to use. 

Another Idea

Another idea I have had for this printing project is using image maker. Firstly when I got the printing brief I didn't originally think of using image maker I was thinking more of lino print, wood cut etc. but when I thought about it, I thought that image maker would be a good idea. Thinking about House and Home I was thinking about doing about my ancestors after I looked at my family tree (house and home -- home -- family -- family tree -- ancestors).  I could print my photo onto a pillow case. I would then work on to it, sewing etc. 

When searching the internet I have come across an artist called Maria Walker. 

This artist has inspired me to use text in my work on my ancestors idea. 

Inspiration - House and Home

I was looking at a website called notonthehighstreet.com and I came across these marble pieces. This has given me the idea to do my prints on more than just paper. I am planning to print on to wood and on to tiles.

Going into more research I have gone into tile prints and came across Welbeck Tiles.

   

Another idea I have become very interested in is old fashioned wooden signs. I think this would be a brilliant thing to print and would like to see the results of printing onto wood. 

To do this I will use a lino print and print onto a piece of plyboard. The reason I have chosen to use this type of wood is because when printed onto, you will still see the markings of the wood and will look like an old fashioned sign. 

Pop Art

In college we were practising using layers on photoshop. I used a simple picture of Luke. 

We firstly adjusted the brightness using levels. And then adjusted the Threshold (which makes it black and white). I then removed the background by cutting it out. On a new layer I cut out the skin surface and filled the colour of my choice. Then selected multiply so all the detail was visible. On a new layer i used the lasso tool and added eye shadow then used multiply again. I repeated the process for the lips and the hat and background etc. Before saving it I flattened the image so that it couldn't be changed. I then saved it as a jpeg so tat i could open the images in more places than just photoshop. 

After I had changed the colour of each image I adjusted the hue and saturation so that the colours would change. I then put all the different coloured images and pieced them together so it looks like an Andy Warhol piece. 

Sorry for making you look like a cross dresser Luke!

House And Home

For my 'tale of two prints' project I have chosen to do House and Home. I thought that this would be an interesting subject to do and I have easy access to my house / home. 

To start of the theme I have just took some simple pictures of my house.