Quiz

Design Cycle: Painting

PLAN 

I wanted to show some movement in the painting so i decided to put three different movements done by the girl separated by a line in order to spot the movement. Then I placed clouds to form some sort of unity in the painting. Although, this doesn't involve a lot of elements and principles of art. Aside from lines, shape, colour, movement and probably value. 

I decided to just merge the three girls together. I tried this first using tracing paper in order to see what it should appear as. Movement will be shown through the changing value in each movement. By doing this, I could insert a few other elements and principles and still having movement in the painting. 

My final piece would be this. I placed some perspective on the sketch by adding roads and putting the girl somewhere in the paper where it looks like it belong giving a sense of unity. The elements and principles of art that i'm gonna be using are lines, color, shape, value, perspective, movement, and unity. 

Design Cycle: Painting

Brainstorm

Inspiration:

- My print called 'Raindrops'
- Rain
- People
- Quote 'Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning to dance in the rain'

Research:

Courtney C. Lunt
- painter
- watercolor
- oil
- paints people

















Stephanie Pyren 
- watercolor painter

- uses personal background as inspiration
- uses dance themes

Nancy Spielman
- painter
- oil paintings















Message: 

My print involves a girl who's in the rain expressionless and stationary.

For my painting piece, I want to do the opposite. I wanted to focus less on her face and more on her body language in order to tell her emotions. I want the girl dancing after the rain has passed and i want her to be more happy and less serious. 

Design Cycle: Printmaking

Printmaking

Brainstorm

Inspiration:

- Humans
- La Ludovica by Stephen Alcorn

Research

Chris Rose

- Wildlife artist

- inspirations come from the countryside

- paints birds

- bird illustrator

- does printmaking

- he does linocuts

Stephen Alcorn

- printmaking artist (intaglio, woodcut, linocut)

- does human faces

- owns a gallery that showcases painting, printmaking and publishing

- visual and artist instructor

- does figure drawing (charcoal, pen, ink)

Plan

- Linocut will be used

- Print will appear black and white

• Background will be black
• Girl will be outlined white

Create 

Evaluate

I think my print turned out pretty good. Although, I did face problems in the process. Ink kept entering the lines so I had to continually take the ink off the cuts and I had to ink the lino properly without having it enter the cuts. 

I think my print overall is alright but I didn't like how the background didn't look really good since all the lines in my print looked similar.

Printmaking Techniques

Printmaking 

Relief - surface of the blocks are inked while recessed areas are ink free.

Woodcuts are made by cutting into broad areas of a plank of wood. Artists cut away areas that are not meant to be printed. These cut areas appear as the white parts on the print while the ink appears as the raised parts. 

Artist: Albrecht Durer

Planographic - printing from a flat surface. Image is created by applying a tusche (greasy substance) to a plate or stone. 

The stone is first dampened with water before inked as the ink won’t cling to these dampened areas. When a paper is pressed on the stone, the ink on the greasy parts are transferred to it. 

Artists: Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso

Intaglio - This type of printing involves the use of a metal plate. 

When printing the ink settles in the sunken areas. The plate in contact with damp paper is passed through a roller press under pressure. The paper is then forced into the sunken areas where the ink is settled. 

The plate can be cut by several methods:

• Engraving - The design is cut by using a tool called burin by driving furrows. 

Artist: Hogarth 

• Etching

- The plate is covered by a material called ground. Then the artist draws on the ground using a needle. The plate is then put in an acid bath and the exposed areas will be eaten away. The artist etches on the plate parts that will appear black or colored areas. The length of time the plate stays in the acid bath affects the darkness and character of lines.

Artist: Rembrandt

• Drypoint - Sunken lines are produced by diamond-hard tools that are pulled across the plate. The line’s depth depends on the artist as the lines are controlled by the artist’s muscle. The method of cutting produces a ridge called burr.

Artist: William C. McNulty

• Aquatint - Powdered ground is melted onto the surface of the plate. The plate is then left in an acid bath, the longer it stays in acid, the darker and heavier the texture becomes. 

         Artist: J. Jay Mcvicker

Stencil Prints - It prints open areas of the stencil. 

The artist prepares a screen of silk and blocks out areas not to be printed by filling the mesh of the screen with a varnish like substance. Paper is then placed under the screen and ink is forced through onto the paper. 

Artist: Andy Warhol