Colour and Patination

Over the last few weeks we have been mixing up various chemical recipies to produce some good and some not so good results:

Dom (CAA 3) has been working towards her final show and Nick CAA 2) has made some large fabricated pieces that have turned out really well.

As time goes on teh Small Metals workshop will collate a batch of tried and tested recipies to be used to colour and add patina to various metals

 Gentle heating of a solution under extraction

 Wire brushing the surface before re-coating

 Weighing out the different chemicals

 Some of Dom's samples

 Electric blue!

 Chemicals

Mixing a solution with rice to give a different patina

One of Nik's large pieces being laid up in sawdust

 Dom's final pieces ready to colour

 Nik's very impressive finished results

There's some lovley stuff going on in the Textiles workshops...with our FE students all finished and handed in it gives our HE students some time to take over the workshop...see some of their work below.

Look at these cute illustrated, screen printed tags using flocking!

See lizzies work at the end of year show BA (hons) illustration.

Rossane (a final year illustration student) has really mastered multi layered screen printing.

Ellie an ED2 Textiles student is just putting the finishing touches to these beautifully machine knitted jumpers...see her work in the final shows.

Kerry a 1st yr Textile Degree student, screen printing some beautifully delicate samples.

And last but no means least...Amy Pegler, also a 1st yr Textile Degree student and master screen printer...just a few of the many, many samples she has produced in the workshop this week.

DECAY AND DESIGN





Some striking imagery of a decaying mental hospital produced in the Printroom as lithographs by Mark FA3

End of year cake and pop!

Today was the last 'official' day in the workshops for the final year CAA, Jewellery and Portfolio students and to mark the end of what has been one of the best years to date some of the staff and students brought in cake, sweets and pop which we all tucked into on the 'terrace' outside the workshops...

Party hats were worn by all......

Nick's Speakers (ED2)

The home straight...


The final year Jewellery, CAA and Portfolio students are pulling out all the stops in the Small Metals workshop this week...here are some 'action shots' to give you a taster of what's to come over the next few weeks...
More pics to follow ;-)

Beth's earring frames

Peeking into the pickle

Dom's silver press-forms

Rob at the bench

Beth firing in the enamel kiln

Chris constructing her door

FROM RETRO TO FUTURISTIC

The linocut prints shown here were produced in the Printmaking Workshop by Becky and Pearl who are students on the Portfolio Course. Becky's landscape is influenced by 1950's railway posters. Pearl's prints are of a more experimental nature and involve embossing her lino block onto layers of tinfoil and also utilises chine collee.