Sunday, February 9, 2014

Discount Code for papers and other art goodies

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Saturday, February 8, 2014

Reductive Printing

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dop·pel·gäng·er

 noun \ˈdä-pəl-ˌgaŋ-ər, -ˌgeŋ-, ˌdä-pəl-ˈ\
: someone who looks like someone else
: a ghost that looks like a living person
Nic Cage and his doppelganger.

Monotype

Monoprint is a unique process by which a combination of painting and printmaking techniques can be used. A painting is created on a flat non-porous surface such as plexiglass and then transferred onto paper. Students will learn how to create different approaches to ink application by working in both additive and reductive processes, use of texture, brush strokes and vibrant color. Other techniques will include: Xerox transfer, chine colle, and several other printing techniques.
Students will
  • utilize the ghost image to create a series of prints based off of someone they have a person relationship. This is how it will relate to the idea of a doppelganger.
  • Create 7 different prints
  • Incorporate Chine Colle, xerox transfer, and found object printing in prints.
  • overprint plates / images 

Tools
Plexiglass, stiff paint brushes, portrait(xerox), found objects

Monotype

Monoprint is a unique process by which a combination of painting and printmaking techniques can be used. A painting is created on a flat non-porous surface such as plexiglass and then transferred onto paper. Students will learn how to create different approaches to ink application by working in both additive and reductive processes, use of texture, brush strokes and vibrant color. Other techniques will include: Xerox transfer, chine colle, and several other printing techniques.
Students will
  • utilize the ghost image to create a series of prints based off of 1. a found object, 2.images.
  •  This is how it will relate to the idea of a doppel ganger.
  • Create 7 different prints
  • Incorporate Chine Colle, xerox transfer, and found object printing in prints.
  • overprint plates / images 


Saturday, January 25, 2014

Drypoint Assignment Update

Drypoint Assignment
Collect a few images of line etchings or drypoint prints.
Some websites to check out:
Crown Point Press
Artists to look at:
Rembrandt
Paul Klee
Picasso
Jenny Schmid
Durer

Choose an artist's etching and make it your own.  For instance, Durer's Rhino could be changed into another animal. Your print is to be inspired by another artists line etching or drypoint print.  I am looking for similarities in line quality, composition and printing quality. If you chose a line etching there will be some differences as it is another technique but I will allow these line quality discrepancies.
http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/images/Durers-rhino-1515_i1218990307.php?type=tax_images&taxon=6&sort_order=desc&sort_key=year

You will need the following materials to complete this assignment:
Cooper plate
+file edges of plate
+polish plate
Etching Needle
Etching Papers- Arches, BFK, Stonehedge, Domestic Etch
Tarlatan(provided)
Pins
Transfer Paper
Black Ink(provided)
Gloves

Final :
An edition of three prints.
An edition of prints are to be identical; same paper, ink and margin size.

Checklist
____Completed Edition of three.
____Signed, Numbered and Titled in pencil
____Clean Plate Edges
____Clean Margins (no fingerprints, unwanted ink, etc.)
____Properly cut/torn margins
____Margins no smaller than 1" around plate impression
____Proper ink application, is the print over-inked or under-inked?
____Flat prints(prints were properly pinned and dried)
If you can not complete the checklist, print again until you can.

Who was the artist you chose?

What was the print called?

When was it created?

How did you tweek the image to make it your own?





Thursday, January 23, 2014

Drypoint Assignment



Remake
New version of an old drypoint or  an etching.

*
Rembrandt says, “Check me out”.

Other artists to check out
Goya, Dox Thrash, Kathe Kollwitz, Vija Celmins, Dürer, Elizabeth Catlett, Grey Cohoe, Louise Bourgeois
Crown Point Press


DRYPOINT
Drypoint is the form of engraving that contemporary artists use the most. Drypoint lines are simply scratched into a plate with a sharp point. Students will explore the tools and techniques that are used to create line, surface texture and variation in the finished print. Students are required to record the changing image as finished prints.  


Students will demonstrate an understanding of:
  • Correct techniques wiping plate for a clean wipe
  • Tearing Paper
  • Registration and Printing
  • Flattening and signing prints
  • Cutting plates
  • Cleaning
  • Critique Etiquette
  • Checklist
Tools
Copper plate, etching needle, etching paper, transfer paper