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For my next print maker report i decided to look at Anita Klein, an Australian painter and print maker. I wanted to look at her lino cuts because i have not really looked into lino cuts and also because i find her work interesting as i am about to do my own lino cuts after i finish this report. Picking Lemons - linocut We were taught that when we do lino in colour we work from light to dark. So we cut out what we want to be white, then use the lightest colour over it, then cut out what we want to stay that colour and roll over it with the next colour and so on. What interested me about these is the simple but bold sections of colour that work so well to create shadow. Obviously these are very illustrative, and usually not something i am usually very interested in, although i can appreciate it. There is something about these lino cuts that really interests me to try it out on my own work. Shadows - Linocut  The same idea with white, grays and black. the idea of clean,...

For my photography unit i was to take 10 images with the theme, Street Photography. we looked at some artists in class, including Dougie wallace, martin parr and Niall McDiarmid. ( i will do separate blog posts on these other artists)  On saturday (23rd of sep) i went to Edinburgh and tried to do some street photography, i wanted to just try and snap photo's as soon as i saw a moment. I used my phone as it was portable and more discrete.  I liked this sign. To me a lot of what catches my eye in a city is graffiti, rubbish and defaced signs. Something about this sign caught my eye. I like that it is a collage probably made my loads of strangers at different times. This was a sticker on a window and when i kneeled down i could make it look like it was climbing a building. I liked taking photos of people, just snap photos of passing moments. Overall I found this pretty fun, but I don't know if it is my favourite of all the photog...

Any student or artists has the privilege of spending hours, days or months perusing the conclusions of a great man & profiting from a life time of ardent inquiry & understanding.  I have been reading a book called the elements of colour by Johannes Itten. As i am making my way through it i thought i would add some blog posts on what i am learning as i go along. First part of the book explains how colour is seen... Colours result from light waves. A kind of electromagnetic energy. The human eye can perceive light waves lengths between 400 & 700 Millimicrons only. Each hue can be accurately defined by its waves lengths/ frequency. The light waves are not coloured - Colour arises in the human eye & brain from measured differences in photosensitivity. Basically Light is made up of wavelengths of light, each one is a particular colour. The colour we see is a result of which wavelengths are reflected back to our eyes. White objects appear white because...

For one of my units i am to explore and create work based on the theme "Environment".  Brain storming and mind mapping i decided that i wanted to use social media as  an idea of our digital, social environment. I am starting my research by looking into the physiology behind social media use. I would say now, in many ways the Internet has become the backbone of society in most countries because the number of users it is constantly growing, and because of this marketers and advertisers seek to get noticed by social media users that love to network. Hence creating an entirely new environment inside an invisible world.  But why do people obsess over using social media? Well apparently using social media causes  oxytocin levels to rise in the brain.  If that is true then it is addictive. Oxyticin is known as the love hormone because it is released when people cuddle or bond socially.    One web sight i looked at claimed that research shows...

Stanley William Hayter  December 27, 1901 – May 4, 1988. Hayter was an English painter and print maker. In the 1930s he was involved with the Surrealism movement and around 1940 onward with Abstract Expressionism. I started by looking into his prints and found a lot of engravings, they were so interesting. This one really stood out to me. Le Chas de l’aiguille - 1946- Engraving on paper I love the confidence in line, the simple marks that together make a face. The information is all there to let you see a face. The lines are tangled but controlled. What i find interesting is this is very expressive, but it reminds me of automatic drawing that i discovered when looking at surrealism last year. He was a noticeable figure in both surrealism and abstract expressionism so i can see both and how the two come into play.  I love the simplicity of it, but i also was really attracted to this piece ... Myth of Creation - 1940- Engraving, aqua...

Pablo Picasso, I don't have to write an into to who he was... come on,  I wanted to look at some of Picasso's prints. I did a report on his lino cuts last year that I fell in love with ( https://catrinaannbarquist.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/picasso-lino-cuts.html  ) While looking through some of Picasso's prints I found myself really interested in a series of etchings he made (156) around 1970 at the age of 90. Eau-forte 19 Février 1970 - Etching on paper. So visually the first thing I notice is the strong contrast from light to dark, linear to tonal and obviously scale. My favorite bit it the shadow like allusion on the arms of the two figures to the left of the darker section. I like it because of the crosshatching effect and how much has been etched in for the ink to take to create the shadow. Shadow in print making is something that I find really attractive. The image to me, seems very sexual the way the women are holding the bodies makes m...