Final context board for glass panel!

Here is the finished context board i have been working on.

It shows all my ideas, sources, materials and inspiration.

I wanted to create a really tactile board, which if shown to a client would portray my ideas as well as possible.  I have included the finished visualisation for the new build, showing my idea to create a glass panel that would be housed in the to lanterns at the top of the building.

I have shown a example of how i would like to create the finished panel, including one of my own glass prints and a small sample of my own plastic wallet prints.

I hope that this board shows you exactly what i would like to achieve if i were to win the 'commission' as it were.

Final visualization

For my final visualization for the new build i am proposing a stained glass style window for the 2 lanterns at the top of the building. Using thin glass with the image printed on in coloured ink i hope to create the illusion of movement and scope around the new build.

I think the colours i have chosen to use and a good contrast to the dull, plain interior of the building so far. Using Photoshop i was able to take a image i had taken on the site tour a few weeks ago and super impose my design onto the lantern windows. I made the rest of the image black and white to show the colours of the glass panels in more detail, and by adding vector people was able to show the scale of my design.

Do you think this works?

Strong image

This is my final strong image, created using paper rolls, edited on Photoshop on and then made into a pattern. I think the way in which this relates to my project has worked really well. As you will have read in an early post i did about these rolls they were created using important images i have worked with throughout the project.

What does the image make you think of? Does it hold any significance to you. I hope that by injecting an element of colour into the new build the spaces will feel more user friendly and less like a dark, empty space that feels lifeless.

Alternative visualizations

Here are a range of visualizations i created as a backup from the main one i wish to use in the new build.

I have used different light effects, colours and opacity's  to give each image a unique feel.

Feel free to leave a comment and let me know which image you like the best. 

I am proud that i managed to create such finished images, as Photoshop has never been one of my strong points. I even managed to work out how to add vector people to make the visualization feel more real.

I think that i have had a real advantage as i was able to visit the new build first and and gain a valuable feel for the space, helping me to come to a decision on what to install into the building.

Combining my images

Deciding which one of my glass prints was my favorite was a difficult decision. The only way i could choose was to lay my top 6 prints side by side, get a group of people to view them and then give me their honest opinion. 

The general opinion was that the 2 on the far left were the most pleasing on the eye, The top one for the uses of colour and the contrast between the front and the back print and the botto one for the ghost like appearance, the way the image seems to float across the plastic effortlessly.

Viewing the composition from a different angle. The way the light shines off the plastic is especially pleasing. Its an effect i have really enjoyed researching through out this shirt project.

Maybe future work will include the use of light and reflection?

Glass overlaying windows!

  

Trying to get a feel for what my final piece for the new build will look like. My glass prints were overlapped in front of a window so you can see the scene behind. 

They have worked really well and the finished result is really striking. Notice how the glass distorts the view from behind, changing the colours, lines and dimensions etc. This is something that i want to portray when i use my glass panels in the new build. Changing lights and colours is something i feel strongly about and want to  enforce into the new build, bringing light and colour into its blank interior.

The image above is one of my particular favorites. I love how the image isnt really there, yet the whole view from behind is distorted and altered. Even something so simple and translucent can make a huge difference!

Layering

The idea of layering is something that appeals to me very strongly, earlier in the project i looked into the work of Kurt Schwitters, a collage artist that works with rubbish and old bits of tat to create pieces.

Taking this idea and putting my own spin on it i decided to create my own collage wall piece. I used items and images that i have been working with and made my own small piece to try and understand how Schwitters works. 

I am actually really pleased with the results.

Tutorial comments

Some comments from my peers written during the final tutorial. I found these comments really helpful and they helped me to keep focused during the final part if the project! Thanks for the input Charlotte, Amelia, Emily and Hayley! 

Final mono-prints

Here are my final mono prints that i have been working on over the last couple of weeks. They are done in exactly the same way as my plastic wallet prints were. I have played around with printing from the plastic onto different layers to come up with a different effect. I like the prints when they are just left on the plastic to dry as i think the quality to the image is really unique. The grain and pattern left by the ink as it is transferred is really exciting. I think the black and white images work best as the ink stands out from the surface a lot better.

Work inspired by Van Gogh

This is a piece of Photoshop work i did that i thought was very similar to the work of Vincent Van Gogh. 

I have found that throughout this project i have become increasingly more interested in the uses of Photoshop and think t is something i would like to explore further in the future.

Final glass panels!

My final glass panels that i have been working on recently have been something that i thoroughly enjoyed creating.

Coming up with my own ways on printing onto glass has at some times been a challenging experience, but rewarding to see the final outcome in all its glory. 

I found that the best way to create a strong, striking image was to first find a photograph to use and open it up with Photoshop.

Using the valuable skills that Mary showed me in a previous session i was able to create a range of stunning patterns, brushes and images that would work well once mono-printed onto the glass i had selected.

This one was created using a one of my images i had taken earlier on in the project. It has been turned into a small pattern, of only 4 repeats to create this type of effect. Turning up the contrast and taking out all the hue from the original image left me with a strong, bold black outline to work with. Once the black section had been printed and left to dry i flipped the glass over and began work on the reverse.

I decided i wanted to have a contrast in colours so opted for the orange/brown tones from one of my rust inspired images. The same processes were followed and the outcome is what you see above. A really nice, 

bold image that reflects the light beautifully and glimmers as it is moved.

I used a sightly different technique with this print.I wanted to see if i could manipulate the ink whilst it was still wet on the glass panel, using a piece of white paper i backed the glass whilst the ink was still tacky to see what would happen. Small pockets of air were created, giving the illusion of movement within the glass. This might work well if 2 pieces of glass were sandwiched together.

Maybe i will try this out and document my findings at a later time?

I am really excited to create more work along these lines and see where the ideas take me!

Rubber mould from new build!

Today Kate Egan brought one of my fellow peers a mold used in the new build to create the patterned pillars.

I thought it was really interesting as it is something that was created specifically to be used in the new build. It shows how other artists have envisioned what they would like to see in the new build. 

It is a really study sample and its really interesting  to see exactly what has been used to create a space/place within the new build!

Glass, light, change!

Here is my mini glass panel in situ. I found that by changing the lighting around the panel i was able to create different effects. I hung my panel from a wall light in my bedroom, this created a really nice, dusk feel to the panel that really brought the colours to life. I am really interested in looking at how light can change a piece of work and am keen to research into the subject more before the end of the project.

The way in which the light seems to hide the image is really nice and i like how the light becomes a main feature in the image! 

Mini glass wall hanging

Experimenting with scale, size and colour!

Working onto smaller panes of i glass i did a series of prints using dark blue and black ink. I used my method of mono printing from plastic wallets to create the distorted effect i have become accustomed to.

I particularly like the way the ink seems to move across the glass panel, the movement and light is extremely interesting.

The image to the right is immediately after i have placed my panel onto the plastic wallet. In order for the ink to transfer correctly i learnt that i had to leave it to partially dry before peeling the plastic away.

After the initial image has been transferred onto the glass, the excess ink was used to create a few extra mono prints onto extra sheets of plastic.

I then had to spray each print with hairspray individually in order to hold the ink.

The hairspray seemed to alter the colour of the ink and brought out some very vivid blue colours that i found extremely exciting!

I feel that these prints really put my ideas across to the audience and show exactly what i am working towards.


Below is the final glass print, i have added a black and brackets to the panel in order to hang and display the image. I think it looks extremely professional and i am very happy with the outcome.

Natural materials

The idea of using rolls to create a final piece was something that really interested me. Whilst in the studio one day i came across some scraps of wooden poles on the floor, after establishing that they were free to use i took them home and began to play around with ideas.

Using my glass panels i overlaid them in different ways to create different effects.

I wanted to see how my concept would work using natural materials instead of artificial ones.

The piece is very similar to bamboo, the colours are very similar to the colours i began to look at at the very beginning of this project. I like how i have some how managed to interlink all my work without really realizing! This is something very new to me!

Changing the angle of the camera is a very quick and easy way of changing the way the object is viewed. It alters the light source and cast different shadows on the surrounding surface.

I especially like the small patterns that appear on the inside of the wood. Like the rust i was looking at previously, it is the hidden marks that really excite me.

I would like to explore different ways in which this material can be used, maybe to create a photoshop pattern or even a tool to be used for mark making.

Who knows?

Exciting ideas for the final piece!

The image that i have chosen to base my visualization on is the image of the paper rolls i created earlier.

Im not entirely sure why i am so excited by this image but i believe that it has a really sense or adventure hidden within it and will look just amazing taking pride of place in the new build. As a glass cover for the panels.

Combining Ideas

Maybe its time to look at combining a few of my ideas together to create something completely new and unique? In the very first week of the project we were asked to use paper and sticking materials to create wall pieces. Mine was unsuccessful to say the very least. I was using paper to form cylindrical shapes, and then trying to form a sculpture from the shapes. 

The idea behind the cylinders (or rolls as i refer to them) came from some debris and rubbish i saw during on of my first trips down an alley way.

During the new build tour i also took some images of scaffolding poles, purely because i liked how they were assembled. I now want to just play around with my ideas, revisiting the very first task to see if my knowledge i have gained has in any way changed the outcome.

I printed out a selection of images i have used/worked on over the last 8 and rolled them up into long cylinder shapes. Taping the joins together i began to experiment with composition.

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh, possibly one of the most influential artist of all time. He was a leader of the impressionist movement and a great figure in the art world in the mid 1800's.

At the start of his career the majority of Van Gogh's work was dark and very dull to look at, it wasnt until he moved to Paris and became friends with the likes of Monet that he began to lighten his pallet and work with more soft, subtle tones. 

It was around this time that his work began to form a new identity. His work become solely about the marks left on the canvas from the brushstrokes. He used small, gentle lines to create the base of his paintings and then using tiny brushes worked into it to create the images now known all around the world.

Although not widely acknowledged during his lifetime his work is now hung is some of the most prestigious galleries all across the world. It is said that Van Gogh only sold one of his paintings during his lifetime and that his most famous paintings were all done in the space of 3 years.

I was inspired to look into the work of Van Gogh after i began experimenting with sources of light. I knew a a lot of his pieces were focused quite a bit with light and was keen to dig further into my knowledge about the artist.

The is something quite spooky about the work he creates, i think the colours are very deep and give the sense of loneliness and solitude. The way in which he paints is really fascinating and is something i look forward to maybe trying out myself in the future!

Spotlights

Similar to my work with refection from light, i looked at what affects i would get in my work if i held the panels/wallet prints directly under a spotlight?

I wanted to see how the light would merge into the image, would it disperse and become part of the image or would it be a very prominent part of the work its self?

I played around with taking photographs really close to the spotlight and then further away.

Notice how the image on the left is considerably darker than the one to the right? It was taken extremely close to the spotlight, meaning the light made the rest of the image appear to be a lot darker than it actually was. The image to the right was taken with the spotlight being considerably further away, the light is able to disperse across the image and brighten the whole thing.

These images lead me to do some experimental work in Photoshop.  I looked at how i could change the way an image was viewed according on a specific light source.

I blurred a section of the image, to create the illusion of light and then used a tool called a 'dodge brush' to add extra light to the area.

Here is the end result. Do you think the tool has worked well to create the desired effect?

Remembering back

I realized after publishing that last post that i has taken an image in the very early stages of the project that ties in really well with what i am currently doing. Its a very simple image of a puddle on the way into Manchester, if you look closely you can see the circles around where the raindrops hit the surface, this looks very similar to the light reflecting onto my glass images. I may try to copy the texture of the puddles surface and impose this onto my images at a later date.

Notice the similar qualities in one of my plastic wallet prints?

Looking at reflections

I found that whilst in the studio taking images of my work it was really difficult to find somewhere that didn't cast a glare from either a window or a light fixture. At first i tried to get around this problem by holding paper up to the light source in order to stop it reflecting onto my work. I found that i was unsatisfied with how the images turned out, and after re-looking at some of the earlier images began to grow really fond of the way the light worked with the image itself and in some strange way give the work a new focus.

What do you think of the images below?

Final Pattern Ideas

Here are all my final pattern samples that i have been working on, i found the idea of repetition and layers really exciting and have been working in quite close detail on creating some very bold patterns from my own imagery. So far i am really pleased with the outcome and think any one of these patterns will work well as a final piece to be displayed on my glass panels!