The concept for this project was home. Pick 3 objects that symbolise home to you and make 20 drawings. From these drawings we made lithograph & silkscreen prints -drawing on mrpvc. All of our prints this term were to be in black and white. We were to focus purely on the techniques of each process, specifically the drawing techniques/methods of mark making.
The following are an example of the drawings that I made. The objects that symbolised home for me were the teapot , the kettle and an abandoned car that we used to play in growing up. I worked from a combination of still life and photographs.
Lithography
Step 1: Practising drawing image from observation
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| biro + graphite line drawing |
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| biro line drawing |
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| biro drawing by Des MacMahon- showing me how to add depth + perspactive to my drawings. My drawings wer etoo flat |
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| biro + graphite drawing |
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| biro line drawing |
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| biro line drawing |
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| drawing with pen , charcoal, acrylic paint + water |
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| drawing with pen , charcoal, acrylic paint + water |
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| drawing with pen , charcoal, acrylic paint + water |
border of gum arabic
drw onto limestone with touche, liquid touch litho crayons, litho pencil
draw image onto stone with red conte so that I can layer onto image with litho drawing materials
litho drawing materials
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| liquid touche |
asphalt
make sure the grease stick is as wide as the stone
finished image on the stone after the first etch
proof image
one of the last of the edition. This is as dark as I got it.
Mrpvc-silkscreen
Step 1: Drawing image on paper and then onto mrpvc
Photographs-colour & black + white of the crashed car/cobey house
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| This is the car drawn on mrpvc using zigman pen, pencil, oil pastel and acrylic paint + water |
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| pen drawing |
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| pen drawing blown up and photocopied |
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Screen 1: the drawing exposed onto the screen
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Screen 2: drawings exposed onto the screen. I'm going to layer the top drawing , the frame of the car onto the drawing underneath- the ditch/foliage
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Silkscreen
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Contextual-Lithography & Screenprinting
When I was researching my main focus was looking at how artists made the best use of materials and the various types of mark making they used. I focused especially on traditional artists as opposed to contemporary artists as our brief was to focus on drawing. I found the traditional artists like Degás, Eric Moench, Gertrud J. Dech, Frich Eichenberg paid great attention to detail in their drawings
Lovis Corinth. Karl Liebknecht ( from a death mask). c. 1919. Lithograph
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| Reginald Marsh, Bowery.1928. Lithograph |
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| Add caption |
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| Peter Phillips, 1965, One colour lithograph |
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| Louise Nevelson, Untitled, 1963, one colour lithograph. edition 20 |
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| Trendon Doyle Hancock, combinations of etching, lithography & silkscreen |
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| Giacomette, Interieur de café, lithography |
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Doyle Hancock-etching, lithography & silkscreen
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| Kara Walker, Scene of McPherson's Death. Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War2005. Offset Lithography and silkscreen |
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| Mick Moon, Melting Pot, screenprint on woodblock |
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| Nonni, Richard Gormon, Ireland. A two-run lithograph drawn with crayon and tusche wash mixed with distilled water |
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| Doyle Hancock-etching, lithography & silkscreen |
