Student Ambassador: Making a Mess and Heat Press

We began the session by encouraging the students to throw a variety of materials around on a large piece of paper. This, we thought would encourage them to be more adventurous with their work. With 20 minutes before the students arrived I created an example piece:

Ideally, the artwork would be based on the experiences at the sculpture park, of course there are some exceptions where a student may decide to deviate any draw a lizard or something.

I used some amount of reference for both of the large pieces I made, the former being a Henry Moore form, while the latter being a study of stone henge.

While this task had originally been conceived as a warm-up, we granted the students more time to finish their work, as they seemed to be enjoying themselves.

I have not made use of heat-press printing before so I made the most of the opportunity. In between photocopying and enlarging student work, I managed to produce a couple of prints onto cotton.

The prints are somewhat difficult to make out on screen, and are better seen in person. The pattern was based on a study of rock texture, and then reflected using the witchcraft of photocopiers.