Title: Shrouded darkness
Medium: Ink on Paper Size: 17.7cm X 12.7cm Month of completion: December Exhibition text: This piece is a drypoint print, intended to show all the thoughts we experience even during sleep, which is why the background is a heavy black color and the "dreams" are exploding out of the sleeping man's head. The work was based off of the German expressionist movement which involved a lot of prints. The man's dreams range from music notes and smiley faces to exclamation points and spider webs, showing the sporadicness of what lies in the subconscious waiting for sleep to free it. |
This was my first time block printing so i went through several trials of printing trying to get off the right amount of ink so the image was visible but the background still maintained the darkness. The dark background was intended to put the center in high contrast and also represent night as the theme I used for this piece was dreams. The center features a sleeping
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man with his head exploding with ideas but his eyes are closed. The ideas of course are the dreams. In one sense I wanted to have things that were very vague in his head but I still wanted to have things that could be positive and negative and interconnected.
The printing process was surprisingly fun but very messy you had to scrape the ink onto the tablet before rubbing it all off with newspaper so ink tended to get every where including your hands and the back of the plate, because of this it was very easy to mess up prints with smudges of ink being on the paper after you grabbed it.
The printing process was surprisingly fun but very messy you had to scrape the ink onto the tablet before rubbing it all off with newspaper so ink tended to get every where including your hands and the back of the plate, because of this it was very easy to mess up prints with smudges of ink being on the paper after you grabbed it.
This piece was also inspired by the German expressionism artist Kathe Kollwitz. Using only cross hatching and stippling to get the shading you wanted and working in only black and white.
Reflection: I'd defiantly say that this piece went better then my block print. I think it would have worked out better if i had carved deeper into the tablet to get more defined lines in the print. But for me it was an overall success.
Reflection: I'd defiantly say that this piece went better then my block print. I think it would have worked out better if i had carved deeper into the tablet to get more defined lines in the print. But for me it was an overall success.
ACT Answers:
1) The effect my inspiration had on my work can be seen in the medium used as prints making, and how shading had to be done using cross hatching.
2)Kollwitz has work that carry's a lot of emotion in it ,especially when one considers the cultural effect in it. Through her work you can see the lines of worry in a persons face and a feeling of hopelessness is received from her work.
3)Well a conclusion is made on how the war effected the subjects of her work and explains the sadness one feels from a piece and it was something that effected her culture as a whole and seeps into her work.
4) The central idea in my work was about dreams and how jumbled they are in a persons head, in my inspirations work Kollwitz has a main focus in portraying emotion.
5)Inferences had to be made on how the war effected her and her culture which must have had an effect on how she portrays the people in her works.
1) The effect my inspiration had on my work can be seen in the medium used as prints making, and how shading had to be done using cross hatching.
2)Kollwitz has work that carry's a lot of emotion in it ,especially when one considers the cultural effect in it. Through her work you can see the lines of worry in a persons face and a feeling of hopelessness is received from her work.
3)Well a conclusion is made on how the war effected the subjects of her work and explains the sadness one feels from a piece and it was something that effected her culture as a whole and seeps into her work.
4) The central idea in my work was about dreams and how jumbled they are in a persons head, in my inspirations work Kollwitz has a main focus in portraying emotion.
5)Inferences had to be made on how the war effected her and her culture which must have had an effect on how she portrays the people in her works.