More Photography Project

 

 

 

I've mostly been looking at gestures and the meanings that they may have.  Some of them are instantly recognisable as rude gestures.  Others have double meanings like the gesture made famous by John Lennon which is known the world over for peace, was also made famous by Winston Churchill during WW2 as a sign of victory during the war.  I have been experimenting with gestures that can convey both tension or friendship. I photographed myself and one of my friends arm wrestling and the image can be read in many different ways.  I may use this idea for my lithography prints.

 

I have been looking a lot at Willie Doherty's photos of Northern Ireland which are stark and often in black and white.  I have also been looking at the Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei, who uses hand gestures as a way of confronting issues and power.

 

Photography Project

 

 

Our photography project is based on our theme of 'News and Headlines'. As I'm looking at hands and hand gestures as part of my main print project I decided to continue with this for photography. Here's just a few of the images ...

 

 

I decided to use black and white imagery for the most part, as flash on the camera was a bit unflattering to the colour of the skin when I was taking full colour images.

Last Week of the Intaglio Project

More Pinky Promise Prints

shincolay of tissue paper and newsprint

 

shincolay of newsprint

 

 

 

shincolay of tissue paper and newsprint

 

 

I did some of this print on two halves of paper to show the fact that it's a broken promise.

 

 

top roll print underneath etching

 

monoprint with etching on top

 

monoprint on top of etching

 

shincolay of newsprint

 

monoprint over etching

 

monoprint over etching

 

 

Second Year Print....Intaglio Etching

So it's semester one of second year and we've hit the ground running with our first project : 'News and Headlines'.  After researching a few different ideas, I decided to explore how politicians always break their promises .  They always seem to promise the sun, moon and stars before elections and then take all their promises back when they get into power. The image I've chosen to convey this a  is 'pinky promise', one which the politicians seem to have broken.

 

Having sanded, filed, degreased and cleaned my plate I then covered it with hard ground and covered the back with bitumen.  When the plate was dry I etched my image of two hands with interlocking baby fingers onto the plate with a scribe.

 

 

Inked up plate, then cleaned off the excess using scrim and newsprint.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I added washes of watercolour to this print

 

 

 

In my next prints, I hope to incorporate some of the headlines that inspired my project.

Woodblock!