Term 3 –
where now?
I can’t
believe it is already term 3. I’d intended to do lots of reading over Easter,
but of course I didn’t. I needed a break from it as the build-up to the hand-in
of the last module had got quite intense. So, back to it, with a new module to
think about.
This is
a long module, with the deadline in August, so there is plenty of time to do
lots of things. That obviously includes doing nothing, so I need to keep myself
up to my work. The intention is to take
the experimentation done last term, and to push forward some of the ideas, giving
rise to a very practical module. So I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to
do:
-
Prioritise the visual. Give myself permission to write less.
- Further printmaking research. Continue with drypoint. Monoprints? Etching?
- Experiment with ink/acrylic and smudgy materials e.g. charcoal.
- How do the drawn/painted/printed marks relate to each other and to what I am expressing?
I’ve
already done a little bit of experimentation. The results are not earth
shattering but they provide a potential basis for development. I drew
the same view (from the famous Armley generative wandering) three times in
different materials. Obviously it got easier to draw each time I did it. I liked
the last one best, in ink and ink wash, as some of the marks were close to
etched marks, and they were really nice and definite and black.
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| Armley in ink wash |
I have
also now taken some photos of cranes (latest obsession, replacing gasometers)
and used the colours in the photos as a background, working them up in acrylic
wash, then drawing the cranes (using variously graphite crayon/pencil,
charcoal, and ink) and overpainting them with the wash. I thought this would
give a more layered look than it did, but I think the wash was too thin. I
usually use acrylic at tube consistency so this was a bit of a departure for
me. Not too sure about the results, but still like the blackness of the ink.
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| Crazy colour cranes |
I want
to pull some of these ideas into printing now, so the next thing will probably
be to sketch something to do in drypoint in the next week or so.
