I've missed several of Beverley's classes because of my new job.
My knowledge of what we're meant to do is a little scatty. We have been given a project to do. A design process for a lino portrait. I'll look at some photos of the boys. They are central to my life and have been, particularly since I became a single parent.
I think this will be a good starting point. All art is an expression of some sort. I need a theme to focus on. I think that is what she's been on about. I've struggled with sitting in class as I find this sort of thing annoying. It is a good discipline though, and I shouldn't be quite so surly as I have been at times. I must be channelling my inner teenager.
Saturday, April 14, 2007
Creating collographs
On Thursday, a couple of the girls and I got together at school to create some collographs and practice a little printmaking.
I have concentrated on creating collographs in a stencil style for practice, as well as using some leaves if dried that morning in the oven. I dried them flat between 2 sheets of grease prove paper and weighted them with some baking tins. Ultimately I didn't use them for printing as they were to brittle to use even after coating them with shellac. On the left is a scan of one of them.
I recently bought some Faust Aqualine Inks, which are easily cleaned up in water, so we used them. We all forgot to bring any paper for printing.
I have concentrated on creating collographs in a stencil style for practice, as well as using some leaves if dried that morning in the oven. I dried them flat between 2 sheets of grease prove paper and weighted them with some baking tins. Ultimately I didn't use them for printing as they were to brittle to use even after coating them with shellac. On the left is a scan of one of them.I recently bought some Faust Aqualine Inks, which are easily cleaned up in water, so we used them. We all forgot to bring any paper for printing.
Art pathways
I've missed at least two weeks of classes, but don't seem to be to far behind.
- Sculpture - We're modelling a foot, which won't be fired, and are required to carve a base for it out of plaster. My foot is still in the boot of my car, where it's been since we started and I haven't even started a plaster base for it. What it has sparked is an idea to do a plaque and get a hebel block to do some carving.
- Drawing - I'm not sure what I missed in drawing, however when I managed to get back to class just before the Easter break we did a class on perspective in drawing that brought a lot.
- Painting - I still haven't done any practice in painting, I did however do my two colour studies, of pumpkins.
- Art Theory & Practice - Schmoozle.
- Printmaking - This friday we will be expected to have 2 collographs ready. One for a background and another for an overprint. Helen, our teacher, is great and we always get to roll up our sleeves and do something. Below is a scan of one I started in class.
Creative writing
I decided that creative writing is not for me at the moment. I really need to concentrate on academic style writing which will do me more good, particularly as I'm studying a BA in Internet studies.
I will continue to do my Art Pathways course which I'm enjoying. Unfortunately, some of the teachers seem disorganised, which is frustrating.
I will continue to do my Art Pathways course which I'm enjoying. Unfortunately, some of the teachers seem disorganised, which is frustrating.
Saturday, April 7, 2007
Printmaking - Stencils - Week 2
We covered stencils as well this week.
We used waxed milk cartoon to make the stencils. I quickly cut out this image, and placed the paper directly onto the table I was using. It is an old table, badly scarred, with flaking varnish etc. This showed up on the print. A happy accident.
The following are a few experiements using the stencil and cutout from it.
A red and yellow rainbow background with image printed over it.
A darker orange background with black image printed over. Another print with a little transparent gold would be nice.
A rough black background with red-orange image on top.
Printmaking - Relief block - Week 2
We covered more contour drawing as well as creating disposable printblocks using the black meat trays made from styrofoam, as well as stencils. Below are a couple of my prints.
I quickly did a contour drawing of a filing cabinet in the corner of the room. As you can see, when you look at the next image, not all the details showed up. We are still using a barren, as we don't have a press.
Most of the other students seem to pull something out of their imaginations. I prefer to use what I see around me.
Here you can see I started to use a rainbow roller. Even though I didn't have a good coverage of ink on the roller, resulting in a grainy look, more detail showed up, if you look at the bottom of the image the comb marks show far more clearly.
Still a little grainy, but this is the image I prefer. I used another colour combination rainbow roller. The darker colour is where it should be and I am happier with this.
I quickly did a contour drawing of a filing cabinet in the corner of the room. As you can see, when you look at the next image, not all the details showed up. We are still using a barren, as we don't have a press.
Most of the other students seem to pull something out of their imaginations. I prefer to use what I see around me.
Here you can see I started to use a rainbow roller. Even though I didn't have a good coverage of ink on the roller, resulting in a grainy look, more detail showed up, if you look at the bottom of the image the comb marks show far more clearly.
Still a little grainy, but this is the image I prefer. I used another colour combination rainbow roller. The darker colour is where it should be and I am happier with this.
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