Thursday, 19 April 2012

Paper forest/woods completed?




So here a photo of my paper forest in a box, I quite like the outcome and how the blackground makes everything stand out. I had a conversation with a fellow class mate Keturah about putting lighting in it with a touch and tracing paper. It's something I will try.

Saturday, 7 April 2012

Floating feathers

This is the print I said I would upload since I've already got a picture of the plate on here.
I'm really happy with this one; it's one of my favourites. I like it because it look like a photo of feathers floating down.

I have enough prints to make a mini collection book of my findings in a woods or to mount some, even though they're samples I think I'll use them to be like a recording of findings. I still might do more on my 1st week back while I'm getting images onto a screen for printing. It's all go!!

Friday, 6 April 2012

Idea

I really want to use wire and modrock to make a small tree like a bonsai tree but I probably won't since I've got enough to do but I'm tempted. I still got a week+ left of holiday so who knows

Papercutting

I did this paper cut with a shadow in mind. I've done several different paper cut which are either, cutting out the positive or negative area but all are flat so for this I wanted it to be more 3D.
I like the outcome because it cast a good shadow that adds to the piece and also because the out cut background enhances it.


A birds footprints

I took this picture after christmas on my phone and decided to upload it since Hansel and Gretel fairytale talks about leaving trails and I thought about footprints for my idea on monoprints which is about logging what's on a forest floor.

Monoprinting bark?

I wanted to try printing tree bark since it has a closer link to my paper forest idea. I didn't know if it would work or not and to me it didn't really but the backside of the print you can tell much better what it is and I preferred it.
I also like the printing plate so snapped an image of it before I washed it.

Papercutting tree

This an image of a paper cut tree I did while I like papercutting I don't think I will do anymore as I should have all I need and I just need to make my paper forest.
I enjoyed doing it but it can be time consuming. I'm happy with the out come and if I did it again I think I want to do a bigger one, like an A0 tree or something.


Monoprintint feathers

Last week I monoprinted some on my zebra finches feathers. I did this because they're many types of birds mentioned in Grimm's fairytales and some rather small.
I'm quite happy with the outcome of it and this is the plate I used. I will upload the print later

Using my phone to blog

I don't really use my blog to much but will a bit more now I have the app on my phone but the images probs won't be as good and I'll try not to write in text language but might slip up here and there.