Yesterday yesterday we did intaglio print, we scratched a picture into a piece of plastic, covered it in oil based ink, then rubbed off the ink of the parts we wanted to be clear. all the ink was pushed into the scratched in dents in the plastic and made a thick black line. i really liked this as it came out simple.
With mine i later put more ink than necessary onto it to give a night sky effect, then with a cotton bud, rubbed off the ink where i thought the moonlight would hit the water etc, this is how it came out. i thought this worked the best as i spent a lot more time on getting it right, also it was way different to what everyone else did.
22/9/10
last week we made sun prints. I i first drew up four drafts of how i would place the objects onto the paper and chose the one i thought would work/look the best, I then placed objects such as key chains and bracelets onto the paper and left it out in the sunlight for about 5-10 minuets, when they came back we could see where the objects were and how the sun had bleached it, i think mine worked incredibly well as i used bold thick object which left a thick bold image on the paper.
21/9/10
In the second half of Alex's lesson i went downstairs and learned how to print, in this we had a piece of plastic and put a small layer of water based ink onto it, then lightly placed a piece of paper on top of it and drew a plant, or object of my choice. I had to do mine 3 times because the first one had too much ink on it so it was really hard to see the outline of the plant but i liked it anyway. I did this by placing another piece of paper over the leftover ink and traced over my original lines so the picture would come out pretty much the same, Then after we finished that we took the plate and made a negative version of our plant I really enjoyed the second half as it was practical.
Vexta
As you can see Vexta uses 3 simple, but affective colours.
If you look closely you can see the small ‘bridges’ to help keep the stencil together. Also to make the piece of art more detailed they use dark colours such as blacks and dark browns to keep it bold. 