Week 19

In Monday's lesson I am going to use ink on two pillow cases that I bought this weekend, I thought this would be a cheap way to use fabric. I will use the red and yellow drawing ink. Once it dries I will work over this with biro and will eventually sew into the fabric. If the ink takes a long time to dry, I will continue putting work into my sketchbook that has not yet been mounted in.
-I found that the ink did bleed together as I wanted it too and I believe it has created a striking effect because of the use of the bright colours. The ink didn't take that long to dry and so I was able to start working onto the fabric using black ballpoint pen in the style of Vlad Kulkov.

In Tuesday's lesson I am going to work onto the rest of the inked fabric, using coloured pen as well as black.

- As replicating Kulkov's technique is quite time consuming as it requires a lot of layering, I only managed to finish the red,orange and yellow inked fabric section.

In Thursday's lesson I am going to monoprint onto fabric using dark green and dark red ink. I am also going to work over the blue and green fabric I prepared on Monday.

-I found that the monoprints looked most effective when there was plenty of ink and a lot of water used. It also occurred to me that these colours are similar to the colours on the medal received for service in Northern Ireland.