I finally finished my final exam. I posted my artist statement explaining how I did it. It was very stressful because I have little time to update my blog and finish all of the projects needed.

artist statement

My project was a skull with different random designs on the inside to make it look more decorative. I penciled it in and did a little shading, the back ground was a print of my first linoleum the mushrooms, I carved out each mushroom so I could print them in different ways on the background of my paper. I had a ribbon and two mushrooms placed randomly on the 18x24 white paper.

The media I used for this project was pencil linoleum and black ink. The challenges I faced during my final exam was accidently getting ink on places that were supposed to be plan white, I ended up fixing it by putting finger prints around the background making it look like I meant to do it.

My strengths were the drawing and shading, my weaknesses was defiantly printing onto the white paper, it was a mess. If I could I would have used sharpie instead of using just pencil to make it look more vivid and stand out better. Overall I really like my project and I think I did a decent job on it.

Week 2

1.I think that the Ukiyo-e prints of our time is  posters and t-shirt designs because nobody really paints anymore they just use computers and technology to do all the work for us.

2. a. The process i am working on is my second carve I've carved the feather and the background of the first print layer that I wanted. I'm about to start working on the circle of the dreamcatcher.
b. The problems that i am having is that everytime i carve i keep cutting my finger somehow.
c. I printed my stamp onto a sheet of white paper and it turned out great besides the fact that is is backwords because i wasn't thinking when i carved it out.
d. I choose a dreamcatcher because I really like the way they look.

Week 1

1. Woodblockk process is for each layer you need to use a different color. Linoleum is when you can carve the color that you want the stamp to be.
2. For the reduction print I carved the background stripped on the linoleum and the feather and for my next carve I will carve out the circle part of the dreamcatcher.

Printmaking Project

I'm doing cartoon mushrooms with ribbons attached to the stems.