Print assessment, March 22

Picture book, and 2 finished pieces.

Box progress!

I filled the box with dead broken twigs from a sampling which didn't thrive in my garden because it was overcrowded, cigarettes and empty packets, broken glass, receipts, chewing gum, used U-bahn tickets and an empty plastic bag.


On the right is the box filled with these items with and without the window panel, which is a dry point plate I used during the week.


The plate currently just holds black ink within the cuts, but tomorrow I'm going to apply ink onto certain areas so the image stands out and can be easily recognized in front of the array of found items and rubbish.


Everything that has been placed on or in the box is relevant to my study of the squat. The box shows how it is self contained.


Below is a clearer picture of the inner contents of the box.

Print of broken things

Notes

Scribbles of where my train of thought was at different points during the day

Berlin box

Through the looking glass

As I said in my previous post, I want to use the plate as opposed to the print. The sheet of acetate will be used as a window into a box containing discarded train tickets, empty cigarette packets, broken twigs, typical items found on the street. Why the box? Squats are self contained. The box will be colourful and loud, just like the squat with its threatening warning signs. Here's the gist of it

Segment

The print I have done seemed to me overly complicated and was very boring, it was just a pretty picture. I decided I'd pull a segment from this print (thumbnail shown below), use it for drypoint, and contrast a second metallic plate to show the diversity between the two urban sites I have been looking at. The acetate itself instead of the print is what I'm interested in which I will explain in my next post :)

Berlin thumbnails and ideas

Berlin, squat and high rise combined

I thought it would be cool to combine the high rise buildings of posdamer platz and an old squat in to print to show the diversity of the city. This is how it turned out

New and old Berlin

Posdamer platz, and a squat not far away. Weirdly diverse city...

More Berlin

The Holocaust Memorial.                                                                         Random graffiti, which is everywhere

City street.                                                                                                  The girls en route to do cultural things...

 

Berlin

Photos

Things that caught my eye while walking downtown earlier

Typography

Jelly babies!!

Prints on show in Drawing Awards

Two of my prints which were selected for exhibition in the LSAD Drawing Awards '13.

Graphics elective

Experimenting with the idea of integration

Woodcut

Print with 2 woodblocks

Woodcut

After I printed my two woodblocks (black and grey) I decided I'd play around with the black block and repeatedly printed it. I then mono printed a tobacco brown background. The first one I did was a yellow background as I was trying to mix yellow ocre but the yellow was too strong and there was too much transparency.