Week 8

This week was the fourth and final rotation through the workshops, this time I was based in the print making workshop focused on a project titled copy. This was primarily an introduction to screen printing. Below is the image I made to be printed, all the members of the group had to produce a small drawing which would then be combined. I chose to draw the omen head that I'd developed the week before.

The only printmaking I have previously done, is mono printing and lino cut, which in hind sight  prefer as I believe the matrix which you create to print from is just as if not as valuable as the print. However I was surprised to find out just how involved screen printing is, furthermore I consider it very effective, and I can appreciate it's value however I personally prefer to work using lino cut. below I have used photos to document the stages of the workshop.



We each printed two copies of the collection of images, one we would keep as it was the second we were instructed to take away and work into in any way we wished. I therefore chose to use sculpture, as I felt it was the most effective medium to convey the idea I had had when looking at the work, which was that these are collection of random images and thoughts from a collection of people, therefor this is an attempt to gather and manage our thoughts; and so I wanted to produce a piece of work which showed a visual representation of managing thoughts.

Therefore I firstly made a mud rock cast of a friends arm taking care to leave the underside open as a crevasse, (below).

 

 

Next I ripped the print up into individual images, before screwing each one up whilst leaving as much of the image visible as possible. (below)

I then stuffed these inside of the cast, below.

Below, Final piece "Managing the mind".

I have also developed the work from the previous week using both digital edit and collage from the image workshop. Below, using Photoshop I have edited a collage of two images, the edited white pencil drawing of the omen's head from last week with a photo of a snarling wolf, I chose a wolf as the clay figure I made bared great resemblance to a large canine. I really like this image as the ripples in the wolf's flesh as it snarls merge with the folds in the warped head. however I also see this collage as yet another starting point to be developed from. I find it intriguing how the beast is becoming more prominent than the man.

I'm starting to recognise that my practice is taking a different direction, I've found that whereas I originally began focused on the idea of distorted figures I'm now looking more into the darker characteristics of the human condition.

Below I have documented the process of drawing the refined version of the above image.

Below, I have developed the collage into a detailed a3 pencil drawing, this image incorporates all the themes I have so far studied and embodies them in a single form, however, to viewers who don't know what to look for these themes are not clear.