Week 9

This week I have looked at different ways of printing as this is how Warhol created most of his work. I first of all looks at monoprinting and produced a series of subtractive and additive prints. I preferred using the subtractive method as it is more striking.

However, I went on to use subtractive and additive methods together and found that this created a more interesting composition. I printed this on to wet paper and used a wet paper towel to take away ink. This allowed the shapes to bleed into one another and represented camouflage more as the shapes were attached.

Furthermore, I experimented with polyprinting. I found that with this the same print can be made over and over again, like Warhol did, however these don't produce the same tidy finish as his methods.

I used two colours in this and liked how the black sections aren't just a block colour. This fragmented look almost makes the camouflage appear distorted. I then looked at the difference between positive and negative space in the following prints.

The first print is more prominent as I used enough ink, however I like the second print as this isn't limited to one area, like the square around the first one. The first print connotes isolation and I don't believe it should as soldiers are the people who gave us freedom in this country following the World Wars. Although, this isolation could present the mental disorders that many suffer after serving in the forces. The second print could be repeated again and again, perhaps in different shapes to present other objects, like medals.