Katie Whitton

Degree Show

Vice-chancelors commendation! :)

Me talking to people about my work

Putting up Degree Show

2 of the 4 lengths produced for the Degree Show.

I spent most of the day putting these 3 lengths in different orders before I finally decided to go with my tutors advice and just put the 2 below up as they are brighter from a distance. I am glad I came to this decision as my digital more detailed length went up at New Designers in the end.

Hand in contents list.

Hand in pile! :D

Recent screen printing

Here I have used linen which I found difficult to use as the fibres do not absorb the pastes easily. I am please with the result though, it would work well on a mans shirt.

This is not a final sample but I learnt a lot here. Blue is not very dischargeable so the orange pigment illuminator went slightly browny when mixed with the blue. For the blue stripes, which bled, I painted the dye mixed with chemical water onto my screen, dried it and then printed with the procion paste (manutex). The reason it has bled was that I pulled the squeegee too many times (5 rather than 3).

Dip dye with discharged shapes.

Wallpaper Competition 2013

Wallpaper design

I will print out extra notebooks which can be cut out and stuck onto this design. I am really excited about this.

New Designs

I have slightly changed this design by softening the line of the painterly flowers.

This design is from the back of the page in my skip book. The pens have seeped through the page resulting in these marks. I have left the top of the design blank as I will screen print back into the design once printed.

I was pleased with the result of the previous design using circles so I have developed this further. When evaluating the samples I have produced so far I found the painterly mark from an earlier heat transfer sample interesting so I scanned this mark in and altered the colour for this design.

By adding a little context drawing to my designs, the design gains a figurative element and a contrast in scale. I will screen print onto this fabric.

I have developed this length by overlapping elements from my drawings. I will continue to do this in the print room. This piece will be 70cmx250cm.

Again I have scaled up a drawing with abstract and figurative elements combined with the textured mark from the heat transfer dyes and the context drawing. I will work into this in the print room.

Stripe!

I have decided to make this design smaller rather than the top of a length as I feel my other designs are stronger.

After trying lots of different variations e.g. no note book spiral showing, spiral showing, half drop repeat I have decided on the original layout. However I have rescanned all of my drawings to make sure they are all the same quality.