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Artist Statement
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A zine is a mini personalized magazine that can be in any pattern. With my zine I decided to do food because that´s is something everyone loves. One of the favorite one´s that I drew was the sushi. I felt in this one I added shaded rather well and added different textures to show the rice and the light source towards the sushi. Also, I enjoyed that I got to add brighter colors to this page. In order to bind the book we used a needle and yarn and created knots to hold the book together.
Artist Statement
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In my ink etching I started first with choosing a picture to print that I thought would look good with in a black and white format. After printing off my picture I cut it so that I could fit it onto the back of a piece of plexi glass that I would later be scratching to make the grooves the ink would go into. Once I started scratching, I used harder grooves into the glass to have the ink appear darker after the pressing. Once I was done scratching, I moved onto pressing oil ink into the grooves and then buffing it in with a piece of clothe. Then I placed it onto the press and then water colored it. I chose to use a sunset pictures because I thought it would come out nice with the watercolors being able to blend easily.
Etching
Carvings
On the carving project we first took a self portrait and colored all the dark sections black with a sharpie and left all of the white portion. After that, we took a charcoal pencil and colored the back of the picture and placed it onto the lino cut and retraced over the black parts to transfer it. Then we colored the dark section again and starting carving out all of the white spaces with a lino cutter. After that was all carved out, we got water based paint and placed it onto a bench hook and used a barer to apply the paint onto our stencil. Then we took a damp sheet of paper and placed it over the stencil and used a press to press the paper down onto a stencil. Lastly, we aloud the paint to dry and repeated the process three more times.
T-Shirt Printing
In this project we started off by creating our own personal design we would want on a shirt. I chose to do a flower with a palm tree because I feel like you can do vibrant colors with it and it´s a basic design to do. After we came up with our design we formed groups and shared our designs and chose one that we would like as our final design. We chose the American flag one because we thought it would be fun to print onto the shirt. Then we stretched a silk screen over a frame and put diazo over it and let it dry. Once it was dry we had our final design printed and put it into the light table where it burned off the rest of the diazo and left the silk screen. Then we took the colors of our choice and pressed it over the screen onto our t-shirt and blow dried it until it was dry. Then we repeated the process until the shirt was done.
Mono Print
When we first started this project we learned about color theory and what colors looks good together. For my experimental print I decided to use blue, blue-green and green. These colors are considered analogis because they are all next to each other on the color wheel. On my final print I decided to do different tints and shades of blue. I first started off by adding equal parts of white to blue and mixing them creating a light blue. Then I took the same original blue and added a small amount of black to darken it. I then used the jelly plate and used a brier to roll the first layer, light blue, and pressed my paper onto it, transferring the color. Then I cleaned off the jelly plate and put on the second layer of paint, a tone of blue, and then added ripped paper onto it to give different areas of colors. When I finished printing the second layer you can see that there is different areas of colors. Then I cleaned the jelly plate off again and added the final layer of paint, the darkest blue, and then added more of the paper to balance out the colors. Once I had the final layer done I was finished.
This project was very similar to the lino cutter project but instead of using the harder material, we used a softer material that was easier to cut. We first started off by creating a pattern design that we could print numerous times onto paper. I chose my design because I thought it would look good repeated. I drew my design onto the block and started carving it. Then I mixed my paints on a bench hook and rolled the paint onto the block using a brair. Then I placed my stamp onto the paper creating my pattern. I did this numerous times until my paper was fill.
Stamp Print
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