This Design Week workshop will focus on the different design techniques Paul McKenna uses in making his artwork. It will mainly look at processes used in laser cutting as part of this.
Participants will be introduced to Paul’s work, and he will explain how he gathers and documents subject imagery to be used in his art pieces. He will demonstrate how digital images are manipulated in photoshop and then imported into Inkscape – a vector program which is used for laser cutting.
Live testing of various materials that can be laser-cut will follow. Finally, Paul will walk participants through constructing a finished art piece.
