tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28365548194861885842012-01-27T09:19:59.681-05:00A blog featuring the hand made works of Jen Gin. The works range from screenprints, surface patterns, textiles, drawings, sculpture and anything in between.Jen Ginhttps://profiles.google.com/111888391570699960987noreply@blogger.comBlogger108125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2836554819486188584.post-84366218057676121862012-01-12T22:59:00.001-05:002012-01-12T22:59:07.781-05:002012-01-12T22:59:07.781-05:00

 I took a trip to Hong Kong over the past 2 weeks in January and found some great sources of inspiration while I was there. I was in awe of some of the artwork that I saw at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, which was a great resource of asian art, cinema, and happenings in HK, patterns that I found all over the urban jungle of the city like the use of clay hexagons at the Botanical and Zoological

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These past few months have been endlessly busy, but extremely productive, full of pattern explorations, painting, drawing, photography, sewing, and collaboration. I'm happy to announce that my pattern design, based on photographs of bike chains and other mechanical objects, arranged in a fleur de lis / damask pattern is being considered as  an

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I'm creating a new series of patterns based on a concept I've named "Imitation Temptation": One of the patterns use these drawings of undersea volcanoes, coral reefs, and poisonous fish. Other patterns use painted snakes and candy, drawn mushrooms, and weird paisleys. Finished work soon to follow! ***

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Design Philadelphia is a great opportunity to learn new things! This past weekend, I went to a compost dye workshop, held by the lovely, Kelly Cobb! We learned about different ways of dyeing with natural material (sourced directly from Greensgrow Farm) from solar, fermentation, to compost dyeing! My favorite part was learning hapa zome - which is

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I've been combining hand painted material with the digital process and came up with a few new patterns: ***

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I had an internship this past summer at Anthropologie, making displays at the Wayne, PA store. I loved every minute of every day there. I would be incredibly happy to wake up every morning to make displays for one of their stores! I'm sad that the summer is over, but hopeful for the new projects coming up! Some of the projects I was involved with:

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This past summer, I spent a lot of my free time on nights and weekends hunched over on the floor painting this giant 50" x 50" piece with gouache! It took up all of my floor space, but was well worth it. I've decided to start making separate colorways for past designs and mapping into spaces in the near future. Look out for it! ***

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Final Critique in my Design Studio class ended last week! What a relief! I'm going to be able to get some travel time in before the Fall semester starts. Until then, here are some of the last pattern designs from the summer. They are abstracted images from observational drawings. From a close up view of a multi-tool: From a box full of skeleton keys: I'm currently in

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I went to Providence, RI this past weekend and my friend took me to an amazing antique market in Massachusetts! There was everything under the sun there, including, but not limited to amazing mantlepieces, antique hardware, jewelry supplies, and I bought an awesome new tool: a hatchet/hammer/crowbar. ***

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My submission for the show is a screenprint on tracing paper, paper, and a transparency. Real life photoshop. ***

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This weekend was packed with the crafty shows: Flag Day Festival in front of the Betsy Ross House was quite an event! It was my first official craft show and I had all of my goods displayed under a tent (which came in handy when a quick rainstorm came through!) Print your own t-shirt along with my other wares of the day There were so many different people there, from craft

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This is the first time that I've had so much uninterrupted time to work in the studio and it feels GREAT. I've been juggling multiple projects like making a piece for the Lightness and Weight show put together by the Soapbox Gallery and making a ton of stuff for the Flag Day Festival in Old City on Saturday. Today, I've been dying fabric and articles of clothing, sorting out materials for the

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The sketchbook I submitted for the Art House Co-op's 2011 Sketchbook Project has been digitized! ***

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The color board for "Strange Garden", which is the fresh garden with an Alice in Wonderland twist. The board is made of layers of imagery that stick out. The orange and green protrude from the board the most, the blues are a second layer, and then acid pink and yellows are the bottom layer.

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Does this screen print look like the sketch? print on fabric VERSUS pastel on paper ***

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Making some new work for a print that will be in a show at The Clip Art Gallery (put together by the lovely folks that bring you The Soapbox Gallery!) called "Lightness and Weight".. I'm exploring more clouds and moving further towards some buildings.

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I've been preparing for Flag Festival, a Victorian-themed festival in Old City, Philadelphia on June 11. I've been creating hand-carved stamps, carved out of rubber and mounted onto pieces of wood that were branch pieces. The images include, hot air balloons, ladders, gears, and feathers so far. In the next few weeks, I'll be getting together prints and other goods for sale and

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I love my Japanese pattern books. They are full of endless and easy clothing possibilities, which is just what I need since I've decided that I wouldn't buy any more clothing and commit myself to making clothing. I made a new summer shirt dress from Sweet Dress Recipe: zigzag! Even though I can't read Japanese, the book makes everything super easy with illustrated steps

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I am going to attempt to make an exact replica of this sketch from my sketchbook of the PECO area in Gray's Ferry, Philadelphia into a screenprint without any digital processing. We shall see how this turns out...  So far, I've been armed with a filme opaquer marker for obvious non-textured line work and making china marker rubbings on acetate to simulate the pastel/paper

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I've had a long obsession with ladders. It reappears in work over and over again, which is odd because I have an acute fear of heights and it specifically focuses on going up ladders (don't ask me to go up more than 3 rungs on a ladder). "Going Up" was made specifically for the First Flight show, in celebration of the advent of the spring season, at Masthead

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This is the beginning of a new screenprint to celebrate the advent of spring! It is all hand drawn linework at this stage, but will soon be transformed into a repeat pattern. ***

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I've decided it is time. I am finding my way across many invisible bridges as an artist. A business card is a valuable tool that any artist needs. In the business card, I wanted to show the hand drawn quality of my work and voila! Here are my cards, printed locally at Fireball Printing: ***

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This is the second print that I did for A Nation of Evil Men: Dahmer's Altar. When Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested, the police found a lot of disturbing things in his home. Things like parts of dead bodies rotting in vats, a human heart in the freezer, and a collection of skulls in his closet that was painted in a craft paint finish to look like stone. This collection of skulls was interesting to me

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These critter are pterosaurs swarming over a swirling ocean! The screenprint is for "Age of Reptiles", opening at Paradigm Gallery next Friday, February 25 at 2020 South Street, Philadelphia. I had a hard time coming up with the idea, since we don't really know what dinosaurs looked like. Pterosaurs are one of the most diverse dinosaurs, ranging in small to gigantic sizes, fur, beaks, and

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Two yards of 36" silk, folded into four sections, ruffled by machine, and painted with brilliant red dye paint and then soaked in a black dye bath to produce a gray-ish cast on the once pure white silk. This is for a collaboration project with Mitchell Noah in Louisville, KY at the O.Z. Gallery, which opens on February 25, 2011. ***

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