Printmaking

Artists Work

Edvard Munch was an artist of the expressionism movement in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. He worked mainly with paint or in the form of printmaking. What I love about Munch’s work is that it is deep and expressive. Within his print making, he wasn’t afraid of experimenting with techniques. He had a tendency to take parts of one of his pieces and excerpt into another, which is something I find quite interesting about his work. A particular piece of print work Munch did that I particularly like is The Kiss (Dur Kuss) 1895 which is a dry point etching on card. The flow of this image at first glance looks like a drawing, it wasn’t until looking more deeply I realised it was in fact an etched print. I love the flow of this image and the subtlety of the greys and black. The lightness of the parting of the two faces, to me, makes the two figures merge into one, something I believe Munch intended to emphasize the passion between the two people.

Project: Cream Album Cover

For this project, I adapted a section of the psychedelic album cover Disraeli Gears by Cream. The final print produced, includes lino print and collage. During this project, I also re-engaged myself with the technique of screen printing.

The section of Disraeli Gears I used for the project

My Lino cut, post printing

My drawing adaption of the album cover section, fine pen on tracing paper

My drawing adaption of the album cover, pencil on paper

Lino Printing

Here are my two basic lino prints, one in black and the other in a gradient of magenta. This process of the printing was very straight forward. What I found to be more of a challenge, was getting the right flow with the cutting tools used to make the lino image itself. Overall, I do belive my images came out very well. Once these were created, I looked into experimenting more with collage and screen printing with the image as well, to make it more psychedelic and abstract.

Collage (Chin Colle)

The pieces below are my productions of collage using tissue paper and glue. Some of the tissue paper I used, particularly the more bold coloured paper, was fairly thick and more difficult to tear and cut. It also was very stubborn with the glue I used, however after some patience I managed to create these fairly abstract pieces.

Screenprinting

The two pieces below are the abstract screen prints I created. Having not done screen printing since I was in College back in 2012, I found the experience refreshing and fun to revisit. I also found the process a lot simpler than the way I was originally taught it. When creating these particular screen prints, I drew directly onto the screen with acrylic paint, pastels and talc. I love the way the final images came out and love the contrast of the colours.

Here are two examples of screenprinting using paper stencils, cut by me. The issue I found with this technique, was that I needed to be cautious of the paper moving or folding. As you can see, particularly in the second image, it can affect the quality and outcome of the image.

Final Images