Experimental Postcards

Based off our primary research and objects we made experimental postcards using different techniques such as drawing, collage and mark making. Some of these techniques included continuous line, stitching, using objects as stamps, abstract images and using different medias. We will be editing these on Photoshop to make them look better and to help build up our print. I think its good that we had to make 25-30 because the more techniques you cover the better your ideas look you could have one you really like and one not so much but doing lots can help come you come up with really good ideas and develop ones further to make them even more interesting.

You straight away see my colour theme and see that I have done a lot of drawing and mark making I need to do some more collage and do some more stitching as the one I have stitched on worked out really well.

Some of my favorites 

This was based of a old tire in my back yard I made cardboard shapes of tires and cut a hole out the middle  I then used water colour to print them I found it didn't show up as much so I used black ink , I then stitched the tire details into the middles of the circles after that I used fine liner to outline and define the tires I drew these in an abstract way to make my image more interesting. I love how the ink isn't a block colour; the colour looks like it's been worn away. It really adds interest to the image I think were as having the block colour would look more graphic theses look more like the tire in my photograph because the tire is old and the colours are worn away in areas and it's rusty.

I first splattered paint onto yellow card to create a rust like texture I mixed different tones of browns. I then cut and stuck down strips of masking tape down the card in a vertical style to recreate the reflective lines which appear on the side of skips. I then used acrylic paints in a messy style layering colours and smudging them to make the skip look dirty and rusty. I think this worked out really well and is really effective due to the acrylic smudging and the texture of it.

This is one of my collage postcards. I used different papers, such as this yellow card I bought which appeared to have a burnt effect but it also reminded me of rust. I made a skip shape out of this based of my photograph and then I added different items which I saw in the skip using different papers. I made the carpet using a graph paper and others items out of coloured card. I stuck them all onto a piece of card. I feel this works well because it looks quite abstract the colours are dull and even though it's a flat image I do feel that it does stand out because it's not detailed, there are no bold lines and it's very different then most of my other postcards.

This is my ink drawing of the back of a phone drawn on to the burnt effect rust look paper. This drawing is really bold, it's graphic I love the mix of thin and thick lines some lines look degraded and almost pixel like which reminds me of technology.  This is really effective because of these details I also like how there's only two colours I feel the black looks really strong against the yellow background. 

I made this postcard by using one of my objects which was a piece of sponging of a broken headphone I painted with ink and dotted the sponge all over the page until the lines were slowly disappearing and then i'd re-paint it again with more ink. I have never used objects to mark make before but I really like the way it turned it because you can't always draw exactly what the object is but by using them you get the true effect of that object. 

This was simply drawn with pencil and is a figurative drawing of a broken USB stick. I think this works well even though it's basic it's strong because it's so basic and not detailed as much as some of my other postcards. The lines are quite clean and they're thin. The object is almost asymmetrical drawn and I really like the unusual shape of this drawing.