Last week, I brought up the question about what clothing. There was an idea of having us all wear old clothes and then have them spray painted, but no offonce to savva this was a nasty idea and me and jon decided that we were going to go with our plain white top with paint splats. I made up some concepts to send to everyone so that they would understand what we are going to do.
17th May 2010
Today was a very good day for getting bits done and sorted for the exhibition, we had sent out e-mails to tell everyone to come in and give us a white top so that it can be designed for the weekend (by myself and Jon) the turn out was quite good receiving over half of the amount of shirts.
Me and Jon will start working tomorrow on the logo that will be sprayed on the back and the templates etc (shown in detail tomorrow).
Inside University
Myself, Jon, Mike, Richard, Martin, Savva, Craig and Teresa. All turned up and spent the day collecing everyone images (A3 work) collating them all together and checking that nothing was pixelated etc. We then took all the work on a disk drive to the printing department and got them all printed, all the work came out really well. There was no problems with the printing and savva managed to laminate all the work which made it look even better, really bringing out all the colours.
Me, Jon, Teresa and craig. Also went and picked up a 3 seater sofa from a shop for free, that will be used in the exhibition. We carried it from the shop to uni, only to find it would not fit in the lift so it has been left on the ground floor near the other seats (blending in) till we pick it up friday haha.
Some more work for the exhibition
As we all know, I have been Mr. Splat maker for the exhibiton, well know we know the location and time is starting to run out. I have been in full creation mode to get enough done, after seeing the size of the shop I knew this would not be an easy task. I was determined to come out with 10 splats in a range of diffrent shapes and sizes.
Luckily I managed to get loads of cardboard boxes from BnQ, they are not as thick as the original that I have made but will still be a good size. I then proceeded to draw on all the diffrent "cartoon splats" using pencil and a thick black perminant marker.
I then spent allot of time, cutting then out with a stanley knife and scissors. Needless to say it took a fair amount of time to do (mainly because I had chosen to make very tricky designs.) Some of the cardboard had become quite weak, but I used celotape to hold them together. Also once paper mashay is applied then it will become stiff again.
I then went ahead with the paper mashay, using kitchen towl and a mixture of water and strong pva glue. It was a very sticky job, but somone had to do it!! I just put on a good film or two and did one at a time unti they were all done. Then it was a case of letting them dry, as to go rock solid it takes at least overnight and then some.....
(Above is an image of a splat that had dried the night before and was all ready to be painted.) It was then just a case of adding a thick layer of poster paint to cover all the white paper mashay. I will be painting some yellow and blue as well, for the yellow I will apply a white primer before painting so that the yellow will stand out and be bright.
Here you can see another smaller one that was painted in yellow, It does not look as good as the original mainly becasue of the highlights and extra layer of pva glue to make it shiny. I will not start airbrushing the splats until they have all been painted with poster paint, so they can all be done in one go.
Once all the paper mashay has dried I will spend the rest of tomorow painting them and letting them dry. ( I have probably produced too many for the space that we have been given, but at the end of the day it is better to have more than less.)
Tomorow
Jon will be comming round and we are going to start crating the designs for the tops and finishing his pencils and I will continue to make my spalts. ( So we have a lot of work ahead of us.)
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