Let the marketing bombardment start :)
More pub doodles…
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My New Website is now Live !
Finally, my new website for my company is updated and live…
Check it out: www.kaanaydogmusdesign.com
Memories from Faro (Portugal)…
SOLAR PLATE
its name is cool, outcome is even cooler…
I think my favorite printing method is Solar Plate… The last day at my uni, there was a solar plate workshop. For this workshop I brought an image of the bridge that I’ve taken in Porto (Portugal) 2 weeks ago. You need to take a photocopy of your image on a transperancy. Then expose your plate (you need to work with a test strip first to find the exact exposure time for your image, mine was 90sec). After exposing you need to develop your plate under hot tap water, and put it in LittleJohn (the oven at uni named like this).
We did single colour and two colour versions, the effect you get, the grains, the texture of the paper…Because you pass your plate and paper under a press which applies 9tons of pressure per inch, metal carves the paper with small dots, you can feel every little dot, it is absolutely amazing…Nothing like this can be achieved via high tech / computrerized methods.
I’ve done some postcards with my plate, which I will be giving them to my friends that I visited Porto together, since that bridge is a very memorable one for us (they will lough so much for this sentence, I am sure, if they ever see this …:))
(I hope they don’t read this before I give them the cards)
This term I joined to the life drawing society of UAL. There were classes every week, and every second week there was a tutored session, which I benefited incredibly. I will definetely continue to life drawing next term.
We had time restriction as well, which was most of the time 5 mins.
Last Thursday I’ve been to the private view of Morag Myerscough’s new exhibition, Shop, at her house. (Her House Gallery is the name of the gallery, and her house is upstairs). Morag displayed some chairs out of her chair collection - she has 105 chairs in her posession-, while Vicky Thornton displayed her cushions, textiles and ceramics, Luke Morgan’s posters were also on the walls.
It was a very warm and a cosy private view, there was a story behind each chair displayed. Reading the stories was fun and very interesting. As a Christmas present to myself I bought 3 small tea-light candle pots, 2 of the blue ones, and 1 red.
above photos from: supergrouplondon.co.uk
WOOD CUT TIME
Last week I went to a wood cut workshop at my uni. I took one of my sketches with me (maybe you remember, i posted it before, this is one of the illustrations that I drew the day my neighbour jumped off from a high wall)..
Anyway first you transfer your drawing with a sheet of carbon paper onto the wood. Then you cut and carve.. you cut out the white areas, anythin you leave will have a colour. I prepared 3 wood block (can be thought as 3 layers in photoshop :)
1 for the background (blue), 1 for the outline (black), and 1 for the make-up (red)…
The texture achieved in the end is very impressive, nothing like this can be achived via any software or other methods.
In this link you can find how our curator, Morag Myerschough, describes the preparation stages of our show, Lots of us Showing Now exhibition…
We worked very hard, and were ready half an hour before the private view started… Here is the result…
It was such an amazing night last night, with all our great work and, with all the people who came to our private view… We received so many positive feedback. Many thanks to our curator, Morag Myerscough.
It was the time for looking at all the good work that we have done this year, and time to celebrate. Also many thanks to my friends who came to this private view and who shared these nice moments with me…
I also should admit that I felt very emotional when our tutors gave us a CD, which says thank you on the label, with their favorite songs…
Such a looooong day.. We created our exhibition space from scratch… Wiring for the lamps were completed, walls painted, tables installed, cleaned, and varnished several times, dummies of the posters hung on the walls, books placed on table…anny lots of tiny tiny tiny details… I’m tired..
I hope everything goes right tomorrow. And it stops snowing…
