Recreating Skin..

I was really interested in trying to recreate the texture of skin so I decided to try it using latex. It comes in liquid form so I poured it out onto a sheet of acetate and let it dry for a few hours. I added acrylic paint to get a skin - ish colour and added threads to be the wrinkles. However the end result was not as I had hoped and I think it looks a bit gross so I guess it's back to the drawing board with the latex.

I think next time I might try experimenting with swatches of leather.

I began crinkling tracing paper to get the effects of wrinkles in the skin aswell and this was far more successful :)

Printing Fabrics and Other Textures..

This week I was looking at the textures of different fabrics in order to investigate the texture of skin, mainly looking at denim and sequins. I inked up both textures and then put them through the printing press. I found the results to be quite interesting.

Denim

Sequins

I plan on printing socks, lace, shoelaces and woolen hats next and have been looking at the work of artist Jim Dine.

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My studio space this week :)

Dry Point Etching

This has definitely been my favourite print technique to date :)

Using a scribe I etched the wrinkles and lines of the hand onto a piece of acetate. Then I inked up the acetate sheets, took away the excess ink and then printed them.

Here are some of the results, done with plain black ink :)

Hopefully next week I will experiment with layering the prints and using different colour inks and paper.