FINAL MAJOR PROJECTS

Early Morning on the Wye

FINAL MAJOR PROJECTS

The Butter Market

FINAL MAJOR PROJECTS

The Golden Valley

JOURNAL PAGES

INTRODUCTORY MEDIA

This is my business postcard that can also be used as a blank message card.

A NEW OUTLOOK

My Hereford inspired prints are going to be viewed  through the eyes of this slightly nostalgic character, just off the train.

REFLECTION

I composed the prints below with letter press printing in mind. I feel that this limited and dictated my composition perhaps over simplifying to its detriment. I was aware of leaving space for letters or covering up parts of the image.

For my Final Major Projects my general subject matter is Hereford, the prints below allude to this but they are a little random as they were derived from my mono prints.

I intend to firm up on my subject matter and be selective in what I take forward from these prints. Although I like the letter press I am not going to use it to the same degree as the constraints are too great. I like the effect of printing on to newsprint as it has a softness and mottled appearance. I will continue to use mono print and I am going to try and include some etching and more of my printed textures in future compositions.

LETTER PRESS PRINTS

LETTER PRESS PRINTS

LETTER PRESS PRINTS

LETTER PRESS PRINTS

LETTER PRESS PRINTS

MONO PRINT 6

MONO PRINT 5

MONO PRINT 4

MONO PRINT 3

MONO PRINT2

mono printing

During the Easter break I made lots of small Hereford inspired prints, they are quite pale so don't reproduce that well.

Julian Trevelyan, Pioneering Printmaker.

I have been looking at the work of Julian Trevelyan, I love his simple shapes and bold yet subtle colours and the little shapes/symbols often hand coloured that he used to decorate his work with. Trevelyan studied at the Stanley William Hayter Atelier 17 in Paris where he met and worked with Alexander Calder, Vieira da Silva, Miro and Picasso, he was married to artist Mary Fedden.

Dry point etching

I am going to experiment with some dry point etching to add to my mono print compositions, here is my first go.

MONO PRINTS

I have been doing some Mono printing with a view to incorporating it into my collage, this reminds me of a 'cliff edge'

Horizons

Life is an Uphill Battle

A small American mini bus

In the Parking lot

At Dusk

Day time

The Bus on the print background

Life is an Uphill Battle

Some textures

 from print and wax crayon drawings of little cars.

Visiting Artists/Illustrators

The artist who made these posters for the Brighton Art Fair is called Sarah Young she describes herself as a print maker,painter,designer,maker and illustrator. She works from her studio on the south coast of England and prints at Inkspot press in Brighton. I love the vibrancy humour and composition of her work and I think she would be a very interesting visiting artist to have at HCA, with many different techniques to talk about.

FINISHED POSTER

This is my finished poster alongside Max Huber's music programme cover, Venice 1958, I hope mine captures something of his.

NEARLY FINISHED

These are some variations on a theme!

INHERITED PROBLEMS

I love the colours and shapes in this image unfortunately when I looked at this closely I realised that it had lines on it from when my printer had been misbehaving when had made my collage in year one, this spoils the image and they are impossible, to get rid of it seems, anyway I was determined to use it any way and they do not notice in my final piece.

PIANO KEYS!

  I was inspired by the Max Huber print below, which was a music programme for a festival of music. His image had the suggestion of piano keys, so I thought I would also use use piano keys to suggest music in the classical music poster that I am making. I want the poster to be more about at atmosphere than facts, and I want it to be soft and dreamy looking, so I like the soft layered effect of Max Huber's work. I got carried away transforming photo of the walls of a tent into piano keys!  It was an interesting exercise in photoshop but an actual photograph of piano keys might have worked just as well in my final poster.

OLD TEXTURES AND SHAPES TO USE!

Until my opportunity for screen printing arrives, I am looking at my existing shapes and textures  that already exist in some of my old work and giving them a new lease of life as something new, here this is interesting as this is an old piece of work (pre-art degree) piece of work, which I had cut up and collaged into a new piece of work in year one with Alan which I am now going to turn into something else, so I get three different pieces of work from one. The one on the left is a part of my year one collage, and on the right is the start of turning it into something else, it has nice velvety textures.