6/10/2016

Today Claire let us start our final Lino piece. I decided to go with my wood idea because I thought it would be more effective with what she wanted us to do. Claire wanted us to do a gradual Lino print meaning we print one colour then go and take more Lino away then print another colour to show a build up of inks. I started by sketching my idea onto the Lino using permanent marker! I then went straight over to the printing area to start my first print. I wanted to have a plain block colour in the background so I decided on yellow. I printed the block yellow 5 times and then washed my Lino. I then cut away more Lino and printed the next colour over the top. It was very confusing at first and I found it hard to understand but I soon got the idea and knew what I was doing. I only did 2 layers today but I am hoping to do 4.

5/10/2016

Today I started to create some samples using actual Lino. I used an A5 piece of Lino cut into two to create two pieces. A mushroom piece and a wood one. This went really well and I found the Lino a lot easier to cut that I originally thought! However i had a few complications where I cut too deeply into the Lino causing the Lino cutter to go all the way through to the other side! My final two lino cuts looked very good though and I will be trying them out with inks one day next week.

4/09/2016

I stared on my second design sheet today which is inspired by the texture of wood. I started by gathering images and inspiration and then looking through them to come up with a Lino plan. After deciding on a design I then started to create a background for my design sheet. I did this using tissue paper, PVA and brown paints. After my background dried I then went over it using oil pastels which gave a wood effect! I also created another polystyrene mock up to show what my print would look like. I printed these on my design sheets to show my sampling and then went over them in fine liner to give a bold stand out look. I then added my design idea to the sheet including different papers I want to work on

29/09/2016

Today I started making some polystyrene mock ups of my mushroom Lino print idea. I did this by faintly drawing out my idea on a piece of polystyrene and then using a pencil to flatten down polystyrene where I didn't want colour to be. I did this to get an idea on how my first design would look and also to add more detail and colour to my design sheet. I started using the polystyrene example by painting it in acrylic and then printing it on bits of paper. I think it worked very well and I was extremely happy with the results I got and the quality of my first design sheet. I used the polystyrene example on my design sheet to show my workings.

28/09/2016

Today in sole I carried on with my design sheets. I decided that I wanted to have a play around with how I wanted my mushroom print to look so I decided to trace some ideas on tracing paper and normal paper. I looked at different backgrounds I could work on too, I used grey paint to create a background sample and also experimented using different types of paper including tissue paper and brown parcel paper.

(27/09/2016)

Today I started my design sheets. We got asked to create 2 design sheets to help us to achieve a final Lino print idea. I decided to create design sheets based on the mono prints that went well which where the mushroom mono print and the wood effect mono print. I started on the mushroom design sheet by printing some inspiration off including some of my own photography! After looking through what I had gathered I decided that I really liked one picture I had taken of a mushroom that was growing in my garden. The reason that I liked this image was because of all the textures and folds you can see throughout the mushroom. I started by sticking inspiration on my design sheet to show where my ideas had come from and then thinking about what design would work.

22/09/2016

Today in Claire's lesson we started making mono prints. We did this using a plastic wallet taped to our desk and water based inks. Mono printing can be done in two different ways, you can free hand a drawing straight into the printing ink and the put your paper over the top or you can put the paper over the top and draw over the paper. I chose to freehand my mono prints because I wanted a selection of different unique prints. Mono printing worked out really well, my wood textured prints and close up mushroom prints went the best. I will think about this when I am creating my final lino print. Today in Claire's lesson we also created a colagraph plate by layering up different textures and pieces of card we then covered it with emulsion ready to use next.

21/09/2016

Today I finished some artist research pages off ready to hand in to Kat. I actually managed to create 5 artist sheets but only handed in the four that I felt happy with! I finished off the artist research sheet for Cy Twombly who was my favourite artist to look at out of the selection I picked from. I think his work is very unusual and after looking at him briefly in my FMP last year I knew that he would fit into this project with his rose collection of paintings.