Overall Comments Electronic submission, student lives in USA An impressive submission of work in which you have not been afraid to challenge yourself Good engagement with tasks and a readiness to engage in technical exploration of materials very evident Purposeful, focussed play will be helpful to future development Blog is very thorough. Use your artist […]
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 […]