Projects

1. Can wood litho be done with fine tones using poly plates?
   Answer: Probably yes but....
   Considerations: Wood litho prints only have a 20 run limit before they darken up. The effort required doing a drawing outweighs the end result. 10-20 good prints and a plate that cannot be used again.
   
   Solution: Do the litho part using poly plates. Add the wood texture / wood cutting, water colour using a background plate.
   
   Other considerations: Poly litho on wood base as finished product: success
   Poly plate litho with wooden colour base ( water colour soaks into the wood, whereas it just sits on the plastic plate. ) success
   
   Transfer Plates to a laminate sheet to avoid printer dot screens: success
   
   
2. What are some ideal print methods in Aged care?
   Test 1. Poly Plate, Carbon paper, Leaves, Chalk mask. success
   Variation : Puff pens from newsagency
   
   
   
3. What is an easy way to etch wood? ( i have considered using termites, mice, all kinds of stuff )
   Trial 1. Soldering iron
   
   
4. What is the link between Art and the garden, particularly in Asia?
   
   What an extraordinary difference of approach between the civilisations of the East and West! While the gardens of the great Western civilization is expressed, in unmistakable terms, man's dominance over nature, in the East. Nature is seen as a guiding force: man himself, not as something separate from and superior to nature but as part of the natural world. ( P44 Gardens in Time )
   
   Comments: Contrived gardens, access to slave labour, indicating more of a rural economy?
   
   Oldham , 1980, Gardens in Time, Landsdowne Press, Sydney, p44.
   
   
5. Research study into effective materials and methods for Aged care art therapy.
   
   Controlling idea: There is therapeutic benefit in working with colour and using fine motor skills.
   
   Criteria: Successful workshop produces artwork (greeting cards ).
   
   What are techniques and methods suitable for disability groups and aged care settings?
   
   
   Test X:
   Project: Making a greeting card - Leaf collagraph
   1. Find leaves
   2. Roll with oil paint
   3. Put through a laminator with paper. If need be use dishwasing liquid as a transfer solution. Hand Paint on top; cut out image and fix to greeting card. Success
   
   Method: Residents are almost deaf, used to being sedentary,
   Get a rapport by writing down each residents name one by one. Introduce yourself.
   Establish the topic, hand out cards.
   Choose leaf, ask Emi to make base, roll with ink. put it on paper, put through laminator, cut out, fix to card.
   Show them the different type of bases that can be made.
   Invite residents to make bases. They can roll leaf and put it on paper.
   
   
   TEST XI: Pronto plates
   Same as above with pronto plates
   Demonstrate. Give out
   Do it
   
   Assess results and level of participation.
   
   
   
   
   
   Residents choose a pattern
   Residents trace the pattern if they can. If they cannot then they can paint the prints that others make.
   Residents then paint the cards that they made in various colours or make coloured bases.
   
   V!!!: IS there another way to make paper litho?
   Toner as a water repellent - Fail - unsure why, should work in theory.
   
   V: What materials do I need?
   Pronto plates cut to size
   Sharpies
   Carbon paper
   
   
   
   VI: Iron leaves on to paper using carbon paper: colour.
   
   VI: Take photo, print to pronto, Dab ink, print
   VII: Get a bunch of stencils. print them on to pronto plate. Roll them with ink. Residents can press them on to paper.
   VVI: Does a laminator work as a press success
   VVII: Does Morning fresh work as a transfer solution? : success
   
   
6. Who are the great polish poster artists? What are their ideas of art?
7. What would a modern Kamishibai Butai look like?
8. What is the secret of staying motivated in life?
9. What is Art about?
10. What does art look like when seen through the eyes of systemic functional grammar?
11. What can be done with paper lithographs?
12. How can flash be used to enhance the storytelling power of comics? How can money be made out of flash comics?
13. Can a book or story heal a child and if so, how?
14. How can exhibitions be set up to make money for the victims of crimes