Printing Brief - Experimentation and Tutorial
It was a busy reading week, in-between work I looked into Gill, I thought maybe making a sort of inspiration mood board page might help me get into his mind set of what inspires him and when looking into him I found he had produced and published a series of works on his thoughts and feeling about various topics such as art and religion. I read into those seeing if I could cherry pick some quotations to run with but sadly nothing stood out.
After that I started to play with the female form again, it was certainly idea I was drawn to but I didn't want to run with that first idea without getting some research to back my thoughts up! I played with drawing the female form on receipts which then moved on to drawing on tracing paper, a medium I think gives any image a sense of magic or something similar to that! I drew the female form using a white pencil and liked the way the image was invisible on a white background but popped when put on top of something with colour. In my head it was as if the image had control of what was seen by the viewer depending on the background which I liked a lot. I then chose to play with basic potato print printing over the image with ‘>Object’ it was direct which I liked.
Scans of each idea
After my tutorial with Rachel we discussed how being so direct maybe isn't the right path to go down if I am chasing the celebrate the female form as something that isn't objectified and something more than that, I also expressed my enthusiasm for woodcut but due to the concern of time I chose to recreate the same effect with Lino which I could do in less than half of the time than wood carving. All this gave me a lot to work on.