Nice feeling to have completed the course! The assessment parcel is on its way and I’m finalizing works on the blog – some additions were made to improve navigation and hopefully permit assessors to quickly find what they are looking for. It is a bit strange to think that the only way to continue printmaking […]
Overall Comments Digital submission, student lives in USA Summary of video feedback 8 May 2015 An abundant submission demonstrating hard work Visual outcomes improving You have achieved a good understanding of a range of printmaking techniques and are able to apply them Sketchbook supports your work but needs greater breadth of exploration before engaging with […]
Task 1 (Project 13): Combination mono and linoprints For this project, I chose a view downwards a stairway located close to the UN building in Midtown Manhattan. I was fascinated by the shadow pattern of the handrail on the stone pavement, and by the curvy outline of the stairway. The result was a line-dominated linoprint […]
Once you have completed your prints and developed the theme in a variety of ways, write a supporting statement (about two A4 pages) describing your final work. Include comments on how the prints appear and any technical difficulties you encountered. Describe the reasons for your choice of method and technique and a few paragraphs about […]
The experimental printmaking phase had left me with lots of interesting prints and approaches to follow up, but I had not worked towards creating a coherent series of four prints around my subject. I realized this only when I looking through the prints to try and select four prints I could possibly present as project […]
The next phase consisted of combination prints, mostly based on monoprint and collagraph combination prints. I employed multilayer monoprinting, painted and textured monoprints, backdrawing, and Chine Collé. I used different types of paper and printed on dry and damp paper, by hand or with the press. Multicolour monoprints Two-layer painted monoprint and its ghost I […]
I started the printmaking with painted and masked monoprints from a perspex plate and proceeded to the collagraph plates. The prints were mostly monochrome and employed only a single technique because I wanted to have them as reference points for subsequent multicolour and combination prints. Monochrome monoprints Painted monoprint and its ghost Hand burnished on […]
Sketchbook studies My intention was to try depicting my subject in a variety of media and from different angles. I wanted to see which aspect would capture my attention and interest the most. Apparently this was the visual rhythm of the 5 flowers and their leaves, and the simple but very elegant shapes. Drawing […]
My idea for project 15, the final project of this course, was to develop a series of prints around tulip flowers. Before making the decision, I also considered cats as a subject, taking into account recent tutor feedback with some encouragement towards this direction. But I wanted to take a subject that would be still […]