The Archives

• Projects, own work

  portrait badges

  06.08.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  So I’ve been badgering(!) away, and making different badges. The ones above originally looked like this before being popped in the oven. I’m not quite sure if I fully like these- I don’t know anyone that would actually want to wear a portrait on their lapel so perhaps they don’t make much sense… but they were my attempt at a sort of modern victorian cameo.

  Below- the pin backs are held in place with a little piece of felt for strength.

• Projects, own work, tutorial

  silk screening tutorial- stencil.

  02.10.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Silkscreening is a great way to get your designs onto paper, fabric, metal, wood- pretty much anything! The method doesn’t actually use silk- but it’s a fine mesh that’s stretched across a frame. It allows you to use more complex design that a a stencil and spray paint or paint because the mesh allows you to attach islands that would otherwise be lost. You can block off areas of the screen in various ways- using a light sensitive fluid to create a very detailed image, or using viscous fluid to block out some parts of the mesh. The very simplest version of silkscreening uses a stencil, and this is the method I’m going to explain here.

  This particular method uses contact paper (or sticky-back plastic as it’s known to schoolchildren and librarians alike), but you can also use a sheet of acetate, paper, card or stencil film. I’m going to go with contact paper for this one because although it’s not really re-usable (many prints can be made with the one stencil, but once you clean up and peel it off it’s pretty much gone) it does happen to make pretty clean images.

• Techniques, own work

  linear monotype tutorial.

  11.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Turns out the monoprints I posted aren’t really monoprints, they’re more accurately called linear monotypes, and might not be as common as I thought. Either that or it’s such a well know technique that no one bothers to talk about it! Regardless, I thought I’d post a mini how to about it, obviously I’m not an expert, this is just the way I do things.

valeriepica.com

flickr

search

Archives

• June 2010 (2)
• May 2010 (2)
• April 2010 (3)
• March 2010 (1)
• February 2010 (2)
• June 2009 (1)
• May 2009 (1)
• April 2009 (1)
• March 2009 (2)
• February 2009 (3)
• January 2009 (4)
• November 2008 (8)
• October 2008 (2)

Categories

• Artist (6)
• bookbinding (2)
• Links (1)
• own work (23)
• pattern (1)
• Photography (6)
• Projects (9)
• Techniques (7)
• tutorial (1)
• Uncategorized (1)
  • Stationery (1)
• Zines (2)