VSW11 Printmaking: Materials and Methods
I chose to study printmaking only to avoid doing
sculpture. What a rollercoaster! Equipped with a Study Guide that said there
were some very good videos on YouTube, I found myself googling how to make a
linocut and new things like monotype and
collograph. This was definitely new territory.
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| My Homemade Foot Press |
We had to choose a single theme and stick with it for twelve weeks. I decided to respond to the decay process of a mallard duck that had the misfortune to die in my garden.
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| Monoprint: Live Duck |
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| Monoprint: Dead Duck |
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| Linocut: Duck |
By the end of the unit the concept had to be
presented in the form of a non-conventional artist book. I pushed my response to the decaying duck to
reflect on the inevitability of death.
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| Collograph |
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| Collograph |
Finally I printed the motifs I'd been working with onto strings of prayer flags and installed them in a star formation over the duck's resting place.
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| Prayer Flags |
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| Prayer Flags |
I began documenting the decay of the flags, which echoed that of the duck as vegetation grew over them all.
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| Prayer Flag Remains |
It was an unconventional introduction to printing perhaps, but it enthused me to the extent that I have replaced my original foot press with a real one.
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