Heart and lungs

I was looking online for examples of realistic knitted anatomy when I found this pattern on Knitty. Over the last couple of weeks I knitted my own in the hope that it would help me when I come to design a heart for my final piece.

Watercolour Wednesday

I recently purchased some watercolours and, as it's been so long since I did any watercolour painting, I'm going to do a regular feature that I'm calling “Watercolour Wednesday”.

Printing: new frames and old screens

As both the Textiles Foundation group and the Advanced Textiles group are currently preparing for their end of year exhibitions, the college has suddenly run short of the frames needed to make printing screens. James kindly made me two brand-new frames using some cheap wood from B&Q, so all of my new screens are now ready for printing.

Ribcage v.2 - expanding foam

I'm currently attempting to make a second ribcage. This still needs to have some rigidity, but it needs to be flexible enough to be opened up and light enough to suspend from the ceiling. Over the last two days I've been experimenting with applying expanding foam to a wire frame.

Hand prints

Over the last few days I've made two new printing screens, both based on some drawings of hands that I'd done over the Easter holidays. These screens combine to make prints representing the skin and the muscles of the hand. I have some further drawings that show the major veins and arteries, the main nerves and the bones of the hand, all of which I'm hoping to make into screens. The plan is then to use the images in combination to build up images of hands in which all of the layers of anatomy can be seen at once.

Skiing sheep

Dirt at the Wellcome Collection

Entry: Free

The Wellcome Collection's current big exhibition is Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life, which runs until 31st August. It's the most information-heavy exhibition I've seen at the Wellcome Collection and it makes very good use of the available space. I'm actually surprised by how much content the curators have managed to pack into the room.

Back to reality

My ridiculously long Easter holiday has finally come to an end. It was good to be back in college today; I work a lot better with other people around me. And I was given a present!

A tiny skull! Thanks, Tina! We thought it was a rat skull at first, but after looking online I now think it might be a rabbit skull.