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| negative print |
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| positive print |
Yesterday we got split up into groups of eight and all moseyed on down to the printing place, in this lesson we learned how to make prints using ink. We rolled the ink on to plastic rectangles, then carefully placed a nice clean bit of paper on to it, now for the tricky part.. drawing the organic things.. leaves, twigs and pine cones etc, without leaning on the paper. We drew with pens and pencils and made markings with are fingers and palms to create extra tone, we then peeled the paper off and this created a 'positive' print, nice. Then using the stiff rolling machine thing, rolled a new piece of paper over are print, this had extra pressure.. and with a little help from someone else i managed to create a 'negative' print.
I was chuffed with both my prints as they came out well and you could make out that it was a twig of some sort.
We then did a different type of print, using scraps of materials that had a lot of texture, bubble wrap and netting etc. With these we simply just rolled the ink over the bits of material making sure there was a nice even layer, taking it over to the table and placing it face (?) down on a clean bit of paper with scrap paper on top we pressed down using are palms to produce a quick and easy yet effective print.
I enjoyed doing both of these prints, because it made a change from staring at a computer screen and doing something hands on creative instead. :)
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| sun print |
In todays lesson we made sun prints, these are prints that are made by leaving objects on special sun paper, leaving it out in the sun for two minutes, it creates a shadow and you have yourself a print. Before all of this we had to draw the objects, nothing to detailed, just an outline. The point of this was to create a replica of the sun print. woo
Dan kitchener lives in london and works there and in the south east. His passion is creating stencils of images ranging from mechanical/organic forms to gritty urban landscapes. The inspiration for much of his work comes from the people,
landscapes and atmospheres encountered in everyday life, and mainly his interest in light, shadow and composition. Dan explains, "I'm fascinated by light, the way that it can convey so many moods and emotions with such delicate and subtle differences. I also love the way that beauty really can be found in such mundane objects as railway pylons and cabling, and the everyday urban landscapes that we all come across. I guess it's just a question of how you look at them..."
