Print assessment, March 22

Picture book, and 2 finished pieces.

Print of broken things

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

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.

Print week 2

Prints I did today, using masking tape on acetate mono printed ontop of a dry point plate.

Print

Start of my print, dry point, plate 1, black building. I'm doing a 2nd plate for the gate in the foreground and in going to put the other components by mono printing.

Prints

Prints done today

Thumbnails

Thumbnail drawings of photos which iv chosen to work with, exploring shape and tone.

Print elective

Photos iv chosen to work from for the elective

Woodcut

I did a second woodcut, referencing a photograph I took one day as part of my study of crowds.

 

Here's the photo which I worked

 from; posturised and original.

Finished prints :)

Mono prints 22nd November

Completed print from woodcut :)

Woodcut

I decided to do a woodcut because I came into college thinking I wanted to do print, and resorted back to it. The fact I had been experimenting with line, I believe this was a good progression from drawings and and photographs, which I played around with on photo shop, emphasizing and dramatizing lines.

Half way through cutting

I took the image from a photo I took when researching the nature of crowds.

The photo that it came from, original and posturised 

 The finished block

Prints to follow :)