This time I had to make a ‘materials dictionary’, in which I collect as many different types of objects, and list the associations I have with those objects. For example I included matches, and my associations included : litter, camping, cigarettes. I think the exercise is meant to make you aware of your connection with the material world around you.

Most students have put the grid in the middle of a big poster-board and placed their associatons around the edge of the grid. But I wanted to take it a step further and incorporate a box in my design to make it more like a dictionary/book/discovery.

You’ll probably agree that the lino-cut of the frog is still more interesting, and I’m glad you agree, because I want to show you how it turned out in the end..ta-da!

 

 

Now that I have my ten lino-cuts finished, I’m on to mono-prints. Mono-prints are a little like lino-cuts in the sense that you create the image on a base of some kind (in this case it has to be a smooth, hard, base), then place paper over the top, and apply pressure to transfer the paint (and picture) onto the paper. Therefore, again you create the negative of the image you want to end up with.

 We are studying five different techniques which can be implemented to create a mono-print. For instance you can paint straight onto a big slab of glass and then press the paper over it to get your picture. Or, you can spread paint all over the piece of glass, lay down the paper,  press it down just a little, then take up a pencil and draw onto the back of the paper and that will create lines and your masterpiece.

Another technique in shown in my example below. For this image I entirely covered the piece of glass with paint, then using only an old rag, I wiped away paint, until I had a picture of the lamp that is sitting on the desk in front of me. As part of my project I have to create a sample of each mono-print technique, and this will be my ’subtractive’ sample. And now that I have all my samples done, it is time to create four proper prints. I’m a bit worried, as it is all so new and daunting, but we’ll see how they turn out.