Printing

Here are some more of my printing pieces I have created, to the left is a piece that was made by direct observation from a pomegranate. I chose this fruit to do my printing from because of the complicated shapes involved inside when you cute the fruit in half, which I enjoyed looking at because of the little seeds and harsh shapes that the viewers eye is drawn to and taken around the fruit. This printing piece I have created is an etching. This was created by looking at the object and drawing onto the etching plastic with a nail creating grooves into the plastic so that once I had finished the piece and added the ink onto the surface the ink would go into the cracks and then I wiped the excess ink off so the the lines would become clearer once been through the printing press. With this first one I just used plain card to print onto, with this card I had to damp the page so the the ink would stick onto the card and show.

This is the same printing piece as before however the thing that I has changed is the surface I have printed onto. I have used a fabric which has had emulsion painted over the top of to create a bumpy surface so that the ink that has been printed goes into the grooves of the fabric. With this print I have made sure I used less ink, as I thought that my first effort had a lot of areas where the ink had smudged. This was mainly because of the dampness of the paper. With the fabric, I did not have to dampen it because the fabric absorbs the ink well.

Here is another relief print. This piece is also from direct observation of a very rare fruit called a persimmon. The relief print works really well with a detailed fruit. This is using the same technique that I used when I was drawing the kiwi fruit. However I used more ink because I wanted to try and add some block colour in the piece. After looking at my first creation from the kiwi, I thought that the lines were very basic and I needed to add more solid colour to it so then the piece looks more 3D and realistic. I made the solid black areas by using a different tool, I cut a small piece of thick card up to push over the top of the drawing, although you can't see this with the pen drawing once I pulled the piece of paper off you can see the areas that I used a lot of pressure with the card which I think brings a different quality to the print that I like a lot.