What I like in the prints by Clare Curtis is the independence from photos which leaves the space to introduce phantasy and imagination into the design. As an example, I chose the print “The landing”, a citiscape which condenses several elements of the town into a single view. The perspective is “unrealistic” but the image […]
For the reduction linoprint, I chose a subject from my visit to Norwalk, Conneticut. I had stayed there until evening and had made photos after dark. A photo I particularly liked was that of the local library. It was a nicely lit scene and I found it warm and inviting. I corrected the falling vertical […]
It was a tutor recommendation to look up etchings by Dutch painter and printmaker Rembrandt van Rijn to study his hatching and crosshatching technique. The suggestion was related to the somewhat underdeveloped hatching techniques I employed in my sketchbook work. During Part 2 of the course I hardly drew at all, but I think I […]
Since a while I had developed the idea of making some prints which would work as a Christmas card. My choice of subject was inspired by recent research on Andy Warhol for the final assignment of the Watercolour course, where I came across his poinsettia screenprints. I thought it would be a good idea to […]
Task 1 (Project 5): Test cut linoprints I made a few impressions from my test cuts in black and purple. I used a student set of linocutting tools with 5 different blades, plus some unconventional tools like scissors and a screw, and varied the marks by changing how I applied the tools. The details […]