Overall Comments Physical submission, student lives in USA Summary of video feedback 30 Mar 2015 A submission of work demonstrating good engagement and hard work Stronger on technical side than visual side You have achieved an understanding of collagraph printmaking through your hard-work and tenacity Make clear decisions about colour: descriptive/functional or more for own […]
Sasha Barker: View of Mt. Hood (Multiple colour linocut) – cutting lines and shapes There are coloured areas where white lines appear, and there are white areas with coloured linear elements. This interplay creates a lot of visual interest. I repeatedly found this pattern in linocuts, only recently in two other postings to […]
The central idea for this project was to make a portrait of Elvis Presley. I was inspired by Andy Warhol’s celebrity prints, in particular the portraits of Mick Jagger which I included in the research point (see http://ocaprintmaking1.blueconcretemoon.com/?p=1707) Preparatory work I started from a photo and made some sketches to study the image as a […]
Andy Warhol (1975): Mick Jagger The first thing that came to mind was an image I had seen recently when I did some research on Andy Warhol’s celebrity portraits. Warhol had made a series of prints of Mick Jagger. I looked them up and found out they’re screenprints. But I think the way Warhol treated […]
I just saw pictures from a collagraph workshop on printmaker Hester Cox’s Facebook page. The prints were made by workshop students and are just lovely. I would have liked to achieve something like this myself. I thought I’d include a reference in my blog to help me improve my collagraphs. Glenda: Beach hut series Glenda: […]