It has been quite some time since I completed project 3, I had to make a break to work on other things. I’m not happy about having to make breaks because it really interrupts the flow of ideas and experimentation with techniques. But in the future, I will avoid making a pause in the middle […]
Find some printmaking artists who use back drawing. Examine how they use it and evaluate it. Does it work well? What can you learn from it? Make notes in your learning log. I did some preliminary research on the topic, but somehow wasn’t able to locate artists that employed back drawing. Then by chance, I […]
For the first attempt, I went back to the penguins motif. The first was made using the sketch on top of the paper and tracing it with a ballpen. The second was made on top of an existing monochrome print in yellow. I had some trouble figuring out how to obtain a traceable image to […]
I had assembled quite a few things for experimenting with textures on the inked surface, but my first attempts to make marks by pressing items onto the plate did not work at all. I used black Akua Intaglio ink, and it turned out to be much too stiff for the technique. So I switched to […]
I proceeded to the next variations using a different set of masks: A Clematis flower cut out after a drawing I made in 2012 for the drawing course, with a Clematis leaf drawing from one of my potted plants. I designed a registration system using a grid of guiding lines on a sheet of white […]
As a consequence of my dissatisfaction with the printing paper in the previous series, I bought inexpensive acid-free medium weight paper (150-200 gms) and some lighter and heavier materials for experimentation. I also did quite a bit of web research on monotype and stencil making and then decided to buy an electronic cutter. I chose […]
I decided to continue with the penguins for the two colour masked monoprints and made two series of prints. The first was with blue and green tones, the second with orange and yellow tones. In the second series, I used lighter paper instead of my expensive heavyweight drawing paper, but I was very dissatisfied with […]
Henri Matisse’s blue nudes were made relatively late in the artist’s life – in 1952, two years before he died. I thought this would be an indicator that they incorporated many years of experimenting and experience with the technique of using cut-out paper to create compositions. What makes them so powerful? I think […]
Finding a design I had the idea of making prints from animals and began with photos from a visit to the Berlin Zoo, back in 2008. I made some sketches in my sketchbook. I also made a sketch of a simple still life arrangement with two brushes in a glass. Then I wanted to try […]
The next monoprints were experiments with different subjects, painted onto a plate and then printed by hand or using a press. Blue pitcher and basket For the first try, I chose a blue ceramic pitcher and a little brown basket – two relatively large objects for an A4 format. I made two quick sketches in […]