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Beauty in the Mundane

Beauty in the Mundane

New concept boards.

Concept 1 : When travelling on the train, using pens, lightly lean on the paper to create marks when the train is moving. Going deeper into the concept.

Beauty in the Mundane

Concept boards.

Concept 1 : To create prints with train tickets. Print over scanned images of train tickets, using the train map and the rail line to add more depth in the print.

Beauty in the Mundane

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Choice of words : balance, twist, minimalistic, repetition, playful, pop, swing and fold.

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A digital print is any print produced on a computer.

Artist create the image using computer software or, more often, they scan in a drawing, photograph or traditionally generated print, then manipulate the image on a computer to create an entirely new image which is then printed.

Prints initially created digitally can also be printed as etchings, lino and screenprints.

Chris Mercier is an incredible artist and master printmaker, whose practice combines digital and analogue print to produce stunning work. Mercier always had a fascination with printing, even as a child. He got hooked on printing as a child because his school has a “letterpress after school club”.

In his work he does use other media’s like drawing, painting, 3D assemblages and videos as well.

Joseph Kosuth and Richard Hamilton inspired Chris Mercier as they made him think more about the concept of “art” itself and to challenge his own perceptions of art.

Chris Mercier sees his ideas and artwork more about the “translation” and it’s not far from artists from the 19th century, it’s just more modern with technology now. Mercier likes to use digital processes for new work rather than to just reproduce existing work.

Chris Mercier finds it is often a process that becomes the inspiration and ideas pop up when he least expects them. Mercier thinks that a mixture of techniques is a good thing when it comes to printmaking and can only lead to new, amazing things and it won’t be looked at as just being “traditional”.

Chris Mercier doesn’t think that there is a big difference between digital and analogue printmaking. Digital processes like physical processes have their own unique marks.

In my opinion Chris Mercier’s work is very simplistic but intriguing, I like the way Chris Mercier uses colour in his work as it’s not overpowering and it’s catches the eyes of the viewer.

Mark Graver is a digital printmaker who attained a masters degree at Camberwell college of Arts in London in 1995. Gravers work took form of photocopied elements, often handwriting of poets, writers and philosophers that were collages using chine-colle into etchings as a form of abstract portraits.

More recently mark has been using digital processes to make photopolymer etchings. A uv sensitive film is laminated to a metal plate, exposed under uv light with acetate over it. After washing out the protected areas the plate is etched and printed, sometimes combined with hand drawn second plate.

The Umbra Sumus series uses these techniques with most of the images starting out as photos that are manipulated and printed onto acetate for exposure.

Printmaking has always been forefront of new technologies and print artists have embraced the new methods and tools as they have evolved. Digital technology is simply another tool in the artists studio. Keep in mind it’s about the quality of the images not the techniques used to make them.

Graver purchased a professional archival inkjet printer to purely make digital works. Mark Graver thinks using digital processes in his work is the same as using an etching plate or woodblock before printing. The prints taken and the work is as original as any other printmaking process.

In my opinion I think Mark Graver’s work is intriguing with the processes he uses. I like Graver’s work and it inspires me to be more creative when I’m working with digital processes.