Kaylyn Carey Keyes

Project Statement

My group and I had explored Harvey’s Quay. We looked at what had stuck out to us. We were inspired by the architecture, the birds (swans mostly), the river, and the people (us).

For my pieces I looked at swans, a birds eye view of the river and Milano’s, the Terry Wogan statue and other little bits that show and represent Harvey’s Quay.

Today I took part in Aoife Barrett’s Print Van Go outside of the Limerick Printmakers Studio with my print class.

I had a lot of fun printing outside in the sunny weather. It was fun messing around with making stamps and prints.

Final Book

This is the other book my group and I put together for our final project.

I love how fun and colourful this one came out. I really like how this one came out too.

Final Book

Here is one of the final books that my group and I put together.

It was fun watching how our separate pieces all came together well.

Here’s the digital drawing I made of the design I did for the A3 Lino carving. I used the layout of the map of Harvey’s Quay. I made simple drawings to represent places and things that can be found on that street.

I tried to make a Lino print of the Terry Wogan statue that’s close to the Sarsfield Bridge. I didn’t notice until I made the first print that I hadn’t drawn the statue flipped before I carved it.

I ended up making a dry point print of the Terry Wogan statue, this time the right way round. It turned out much better than the Lino print.

I had done research and learned that when the Shannon Bridge was constructed it began to make a shrill whistling sound. It was from the winds hitting the support. It was quickly rectified but the bridge became locally known as “The Whistling Bridge”.

I liked the idea of making a little stamp of a whistle inspired by that little piece of history.

Des McMahon had pointed out a mistake I was continuously making while trying to make my dry points. I was wiping the ink off with the wrong type of fabric. I had been accidentally removing the ink from the grooves.

My attempt at a dry point print of my birds eye view was a failure. I had experimented with card paper for the first two prints but the came out pretty bad. They do look interesting however.

Here are some of the sketches I had done of my ideas.

Today I used dry point to make prints of swans for my swan study. The swans were one of the most interesting part of Harvey’s Quay and I wanted to incorporate them into my project.

Today I did the dry point workshop with Des McMahon. Above are the examples we were shown of dry points and etchings.

He showed us roulette wheels used to make interesting marks and grooves. He also showed us some tricks to get some amazing effects and details.

For our project we were split into 6 groups to research the history of a specific area or street. Then taking a building or anything interesting and incorporating them together for our prints. We ‘selected’ an area through the lucky dip, which was just one person from each group throwing a dart at a map.