Friday 12th December, 2014

Today I incised aluminium with the similar idea I tried using paper. It was hard to correspond the paper idea using metal as the materials work differently.

I think this idea looks very messy though because of hand cutting.

I'm planning on taking it in Monday and talking to Cerys about it because I'm really stuck!

Thursday 27th November

Today I had my final lecture with Adam all about post-modernism which made me think about what era we are in right now and how it is to reflect at an era that has changed society. We all are free to speak our minds and these days we question everything put in front of us and people get involved whether that's expression through music, art or design. I believe this lecture left the module on a very good ending because it geared us towards the present and future and what mark we want to leave within society.

This afternoon I carried on with some enamelling, trying to reproduce a block colour using the water packing technique, I sanded the bumps down once fired and cooled and then popped samples back into the kiln, this created an even surface. I really enjoyed using yellow as it stood out and it worked great for the effect I was trying to achieve.

Tuesday 11th November, 2014

Today Julie shown me how to use the enamelling kilns and wet packing enamel and also how to apply dry enamel. For the outcome I wanted I think wet packing the enamel onto my pieces would be the most effective for blocks of colour. I tried this technique and struggled estimating how long my pieces should be in for but I realised the kiln was temperamental, so I will have to practice knowing if or when the enamel on my pieces has set.

I prepped some white based pieces to see if I can get an opaque colour pay off after layering another colour on top, I'm not sure how it will work so I'm going to experiment on more pieces to find an interesting colour, I'm sticking to warm colours to reflect my research on monarch butterflies.