Week 15

This week I monoprinted layers of shades and tints of red over the dark green hue of camouflage. I found the darker shade of red to look most effective over the green as it added more subtle depth to the mono print. As I used a different brand of printing ink for this, the 'red' was more of a coral colour and when mixed with black it looked purple. So in effect, the mono print which was most successful was where the purple colour was layered over the top.
I decided to look back at my sketchbook and picked out elements of what I liked. The piece with the newspaper and photographs making the trousers interested me most and so I decided to use the same concept, but instead with my mono prints, photographs from the London trip I went on in December and with my Dad's photographs. When I am finished, it will form the shape of a pocket that I drew previously in my sketchbook. Whilst doing this, I found that the process was very tedious and I was becoming bored.
At this point, I looked at injecting another artists work into my own. I found an artist called Vlad Kulkov and I have been using pen and pencil crayon to recreate the techniques which are used in his pieces.

 

 In Monday's lesson I am going to focus on adding this to my black and white photos to decorate it with some colour, I will use crosshatching, using pen and pencil crayon again.
Another part of my sketchbook that I like is the mixed media drawings that I did towards the start of the first term. I am going to do some observational studies of some sporting medals. After this I am going to photocopy my drawing and experiment with ways of adding my influence from the artists I have chosen.