The first spook a week was a continuation on the idea of humanised diseases . This one was based off cholera. With research into the origins of cholera, first originating from an isolated village in India which pertained a stagnant lake as it's only source of water. It was going to evolve into an editorial image the shape of the Ganges river cut into the reduction print.
This then evolved into the series due to the evolution in the way I began to cut lino. Seeing what was being cut and what was cut as line work allowed for more fluid carving. Also a sense of adaptability. Not focusing too much on the roughs as once you transfer them to lino the become something else.
The jester Print was one of the first that I just began to cut after sketching the general shape and composition of the image. I kept an idea of what I wanted the atmosphere of the piece to be and got to work.
From this I started to look at not only paper quality but how I did my lino cuts. I went from relief pressing to hand burnishing depending on how I wanted the print to come out. If i wanted a more solid consistent ink look but with more of the carved line coming through I would use relief press. For more texturised and 'authentic' prints I would hand bunish. Burnishing is better for small lino cuts (A5 and Below) while for larger ones.
For a while I was In a bit of a dead Patch. Focusing on cop but unhappy on the lino prints produced I began to focus more on my digital work. After a group critique about developing the lino cuts into scenes and doing different cultures monsters I settled on the idea of Looking at different Cultures vampires.
I only made one but, due to what this one represents and has taught me I will most likely make more outside the course. Using digital collage of three different coloured papers housing the same image I was able to blend them into one creating a atmosphere using not only the composition but colour as well.
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