Printmaking and Fine Art...
We spent the Printmaking session working on our final pieces. I put acetate over a design I'd drawn the night before and began etching it. I'm going to try adding crosshatching and tone after I've done a first print, so I can see where the shading needs to go. It's very hard, especially on a larger plate, to see where you're etched and where's still blank!
Fine Art...
- The teacher had built a large, complex colourful still life.
- She showed us how to cut a square hole in a piece of paper to make a viewfinder and select an area to concentrate on.
- We worked with watery PVA glue, brushes and tissue paper to represent the square area. No scissors! The material forces you to work in a way that feel unintuitive and foreign, forcing you to come up with new solutions. It doesn't rip very easily and the edges can be quite jagged. The teacher encouraged us to use glazing to create subtleties in the colour, building up layers of paper.
- Then we turned right away from the still life and tried to paint pictures of our tissue paper collages.
This whole process was all about simplifying and concentrating on flat, bright pure colour, not representation.
(More pictures to follow...)
Suggested research:
Sean Scully, who uses printmaking to inform his painting ideas.
The Fauvism movement
Henri Matisse worksheet
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