Monos..

I did a few monos an didnt get to use them in college so i decided to expiriment with them at home over christmas.
Heres the outcome. :)

and when finished..

to be finished..

Im really enjoying doing these! I wish i had expirimented more all semester.. but better late than never i guess!

Screen print. :)

This was my first time doing screen printing so I was excited to learn something completely new. I was playing around with an image that I thought wouls suit this prosess so I was happy enough to start.

As my project looked into my parents and there masculine and feminine professions I chose to construct an image containing two jobs my mam claims to despise food shopping and the washing I always found the way she deals with it hilarious:). As the brief was humour I combined these in a way I found funny.I chose to use an image containing 4 shopping trollies hanging off the cloths line.

There was alot of colours (9 to be exact) so we figured out a cool way of speeding my process up a bit.
4 in 1:

I just had to control the coulurs so they didnt blend too bad.

I did it all layer by layer and made a few mistakes along the way with exposure so I had to just do what i could with the regestration problems.

The dots on the bed came through on a couple. I know it wasnt meant to happen but i quite liked it. :)

Some of the colours merged. kinda rainbow-ish

On my first attempt I didnt have the right colours and couldnt get my pressure right.

In the end I printed one or two with no greys in the trollies.. this may have worked better..

Final expirimented with prints.

All in all i loved this process it was fun :)

An etching on the side..

In my spare time while waiting around for stuff I decided to do another little etching to intergrate into my work and it also gave me something to play around with over christmas.

I chose to do an image of a bra simply because to me its one of the most feminine things out their. And seeing as i was looking into gender and symbolism I thought what better than a bra..?

So I printed it in a couple different colours...

Then I decided to expiriment and play with them over christmas. :)

So I tried sewing ..

I added very light semi transparent paper with trolley silhouettes cut out of it to link an image I had been working with to it. The trollies were on a cloths line so I thought why not but a bra in the mix..

Im pretty happy with the way this one turned out I really enjoyed sewing onto paper.

Woodcut.

The woodcut I did came from my Humour project. I chose an image I drew of a Hoover-tank.. showing a humerous connection between male and female. In this case it came from my praents professions wich are both quite gender steriotypical.. My mam a Cleaner/Housewife and my dad in the Army.

I chose to try out my first reduction print.. It was somewhat stressful to say the least.. I made plenty of mistakes from not reversing my image, to not cutting enough away.. but from every mistake I learned alot. I just need to plan better and take my time next time. :)

First two colours of reduction: White and light grey.

Third colour of reduction: dark grey.

Final colour of reduction: Black.

This image disappointed me a little as i dont think it suited a reduction style print. and maybe if it was the right way around. :P But I still want to practice more with woodcut and develop a suitable style.

Some Multimedia..

I did multimedia at the start of this semester and heres a couple of images I played around with.

Skelleton wallpaper.

I didnt get as much use out of multimedia as I wanted in the first semester but I intend on playing with it more in semester 2.

Lithography. 2011.

This my Lithograph that i did in november. It was my second attempt at Lithography. We got more into the technical side of the process this time I found it really interesting and pretty intence at times. Still lovely all the same though. :)

 Drawing stage..

 I used touch to draw on the stone to get a softer effect. I used a combination of light, medium and strong to create a range of tonal qualities.

I tried a pooling method to try let the touches blend together better. I really like the way the touch looked on the stone before printing. It had a nice sepia effect.

 I printed an edtion of eight prints from this stone. I was happy enough with the outcome but if I was to do it again i'd spend more time blending as the dark bits were too dark and the light much too light...

 I printed a couple off center as to add to the print with inks or water colours to experiment and see the outcome.

I really enjoyed this prosess and can definetly see myself having another go in the future. :)