I teamed up with Emma one of my classmates to use the same colours.
The Blue to green gradient was for me, meant to represent the Mountains - Grampians - Mount Arapiles that is near and around Horsham. Surprisingly Horsham Is very Flat as in most of the Wimmera, but has a few clusters of mountains spread around the area.
Its a little hard to see but this was the first idea sketch for how the first layer of the first print would go.
The process of creating the prints was basically -
Prepare your paper and wet it in a bath
Mix and spread out the coloured inks - oil Based inks so they wont mix with the water in the damp paper.
Roll your desired colours onto a sheet of Perspex - preferably larger than your paper if you want a bleed print
Place your stencils and flat objects on the inked up Perspex
Take your paper out of the water and blot it dry, you shouldn't see any gleams of water.
Place Perspex on Printing press, carefully place your paper on top and run it though the press.
Set out the printed paper to dry and your are done.
You can print more than one layer on the paper but you have to wait for the paper and ink to fully fully fully dry before putting it back in the water for a second round.
You can also play with the ghost prints on the second round though the press, move around
or remove the stencils for a different effect.
This is the endish result of my first print,
The first Blue to green layer created some cool effects but left a lot of white left on the print on the edges so I wanted another layer. I do like the river in prints in the body, it looks like the trails of wood grubs under the bark of trees.
The Second layers colours are based upon the sun sets that happen around where I used to live in Horsham - Vectis.
Sunsets are one of my favourite things on this earth, Living in Melbourne I miss a lot of sunsets. Either they are blocked by the buildings or I am too busy to see them.
I created a stencil for the sunset colours using a A3 piece of newsprint and cutting and ripping the paper to cover the white paper and to represent the mountains around the Wimmera and the brightly coloured clouds during the sunsets I experienced there.
I wanted to use my empty Metformin pill packets (I have PCOS). I have wanted to use these as a motif in my art in a while, I feel that the juxtaposition of the natural and the man made and metallic add to the notion of my body being my "place:.
I thought that they might be a bit high and thick for the printing presses so I as you can see in image I used a hammer that belonged to my grandmother to press down the little pill bubbles.
On my second print I used the sunset colours with the Metformin pill packets and yellowed leaves from my monstera plant. After doing the first run I flipped the paper around and moved the packets and the leaves and run it though again.
I like the effect that gave so much that I didn't want to do anything else to this print. So its Done!
Then as sort of a test at the end of the class I used the same sunset colours and the outline from a drawing for the Litho I am also working on at the moment, the river negatives to create the basis for this print.
I only used a light run of the ink, then with a rag rubbed away the sides so there wasn't a harsh line.
And taking inspiration from Vinnies salt/sugar on their prints I tried spaying Eco Clean on the plate to hopefully create spots on the page.
It worked way better than I thought it would. It has created a bleeding/water colour effect on the ink, which makes the figure seem ethereal with lightning surrounding it.
Comentaris