Maddy DePedro Printmaking Work

This is the final project I have done for my ART 309 class this semester. We were given different options on what we could do, but I really wanted to do the reduction lino cut project. This project I did entirely at home since our campus is closed due to Covid-19. I fortunately had a kit to take home to use to when working on this project. I have previous posts that share my process and the items I used to create these. Below is the artist statement for the piece.                                

                                       2020 Summer Fashion

I have always been fascinated by plague masks. Their original use was to help protect people from a plague that killed thousands. People would also wear them to help drown out the smell of death. I never thought I’d live in a world where these masks would come back into ‘fashion’. 2020 has been a victim to a new virus known as Covid-19. This virus has taken thousands of lives so far and is still on the move. It is causing a lot of pain and suffering for everyone, so safety precautions have been put in place to help aid and slow the spread. People are expected to wear masks when they are out to help keep themselves safe. Thus, plague masks are slowly making their comeback and in a variety of colors this time. Primary colors are summer colors and this mask is made for that 2020 summer look. Dive into your 2020 summer quarantine with this colorful plague mask that will help keep you safe while showing off those summer vibes in the comfort of your backyard.

Jason Chan

Jason Chan

Jason Chan

Jason Chan

The first artist that really inspires me is Jason Chan. He is a freelance illustrator that has made several pieces of art for quite a few different video game companies. Some of those companies are Riot Games who own League of Legends and Wizards of the Coast who own Magic the Gathering. I aspire to work in the same field as him and be able to make art for these companies as well. I personally love the amount of detail he puts into his pieces and the various tones and moods he used for each one. I  am starting to branch out more in my own art after looking at his pieces and realizing I need to be able to draw way more than just creatures. His work is causing me to practice drawing anything and everything along as learning digital art on the side.

Nips

Nips

Nips

This is the second Project for my ART 309. I got to start this piece, but I never got to actually finish screen printing it due to Covid-19 causing my University to close campus. I in stead had to finish it at home. I created some stencils to get the bigger blotches of color down and I hand drew all the line work with an 05 micron inking pen. Here is the artist statement for the pieces:

Happiness Is Clarity Artist Statement

    Clarity to me is something that comes when you are happy. Being happy allows you to see things more clearly and helps clear up the head space. There are many things that influence and cause happiness for people. For me, that is Jung Hoseok. Hoseok is a very talented music artist and dancer who makes music that makes me happy. From his solo tracks to the songs he creates with the band he is in (BTS), the songs bring me joy. When listening to his music, I find myself being able to relax and clear my mind. From there I go into a state of clarity and happiness which allows for me to find solutions to almost anything that occurs. For me, happiness is clarity through Hoseok’s music. 

This piece was created to represent the COVID-19 era we are all apart in today’s society. This piece originally was to represent happiness leading to clarity. I changed this meaning to now represent a lyric from the song Bulletproof Eternal by BTS. This band has seven members, and one of them is in my piece. His name is Jung Hoseok and his personality and music makes me happy. In this piece though, he is shown with a medical mask on and surrounded in a barrier of flowers. I too am surrounded by these flowers and wearing a medical mask. The barrier of flowers is to represent we are fighting back and staying healthy from a virus that seems unstoppable at this point. We are bulletproof together, even in this situation.

This was the first project I got to complete in my ART 309 Printmaking class. This is the full edition of 10 with an up close image of the first print in the edition. Here is the artist statement for this piece: 

                                                     Good or Bad?

Do we as humans truly know the difference between good and bad? We all have our own personal beliefs and morals when it comes to this topic. This leads to countless arguments over what is truly bad and what is truly good. We argue about this so much that we tend to lose sight of what we truly believe and become confused. The further we travel down this rabbit hole, the more confusing this topic becomes. What we were once able to decipher between we no longer can due to our minds being obscured by the opinions of others. What was once black and white has become unclear and grey. Each side of good and bad has now become a mixture of both and we begin to wonder what is actually clear. What is good, what is bad? This piece is centered around the obscurity of good and bad. Each side is personified by a winged unicorn that is either good or bad. Through the states I illustrate the above story to bring the viewer to the end result. The mixed and greyed view of what is good and what is bad. The top winged unicorn is bigger and slightly taking over the bottom one to show the imbalance of how we see this topic. One side will always outweigh the other despite if it’s the one we perceive to be “good”.