daSilvaArt

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New main brief called "House of Cards" where i will make my own card suits design!

You can also find all my work for my HND2 Creative Printmaking 2020/21 on instagram:

@dasilvahnd2scraps

And some of my personal work:

I must say, this brief was a roller coaster! Mostly due to the current situation of how everything has changed and the way our classes are being set (doing a creative course through zoom can be a tad frustrating!), so for me in the beginning was a bit demotivating. Although i feel i still produced some nice work for the online workshops we had, and some that i totally despise to be totally honest…

I really enjoyed the workshop where we had to go out and see the world in a different way, find things that would represent “beauty in the mundane”, and ones that would show the “line, dot and shape”. The photographs I got from this are very much to my taste, and it was interesting to go out with the perspective of looking at things differently.

Overall I feel like I produced a large amount of work from the workshops by the time we got presented with our brief and what was expected of this unit. By this time, i decided to approach the “beauty in the mundane” theme in a different way, using mundane objects and turning them into something else, into life creatures, giving them the dark visual effect and shadows, with a hint of syfy connotation to them, with which i’m very satisfied with the results. The result of the photos for these were so satisfactory to me that it made it a real struggle to create prints with the same visual impact as the photographs!

I decided to explore these prints with Risograph, being that it would be easy to create similar prints with different layers, but also wanted to challenge myself with using screen printing with the same stencils. For the Screen prints, and because i decided to use A3 size stencil, and i was only able to use screens that are not much bigger than that, it was hard to create perfect prints (without ink missing or without it bleeding in the paper), some of it created happy accidents, some not so much, but over all, i am please with the results and i feel i still managed to get some of that visual impact i desired similar to the photos.

I've chosen these prints as my finals, i had a few that i felt satisfied enought but these for me since i made them i felt they reach the closest to the desired effect. Trying to achieve that same impact has the photographs did was in fact a challenge as i thought i would be, but this prints come ver close to it. It has the "darkness" effect and to me, the blue texture in the back ground (originally was the texture from a tree) works really well and adds to the syfy effect i was wanting to get from it. A3 Screenprints

This prints were made unexpectedly. I cut the stencils i've used in the past and made a composition with the 2 "creatures" ive been printing. I feel they work well together and I'm pleased with these prints. In my opinion, i think they would also look good with some premade backgrounds i could do.

A3 Black paper with 1layer in black 1 layer in magenta

For the cover of my A5 zine i used a collage i made from monoprints and scraps i kept from this project, i then digital manipulated this collagw, which let me to create this imagine, which for me can be seing as a creature itself or a sort of alien structure. Either way i find this imagine very interesting.

For the interior i used to same idea as my A7 zine, using my favorite images of this project. The middle page i used the interior print as well, for me it works as a poster.

I used more variety of "creatures" on this one as i had bigger pages and thought it would make it interesting.

For this zine i use a brown paper as i preferred the effect that caused on my images. I use some of my photos from this brief as well as prints.

Because of the thickness of the paper i used a ribbon of paper to hold them closed, i really find the idea interesting and appealing.

The sentenced i used on the zine is from the book "Dracula" from Bram Stoker, which i found it goes well with my subject: "Listen to them, Creatures of the night, What music they make."

On the back i have a photo i took while doing my screen prints, with a bunch of them together, due to the colours and textures, i find the imagine very attractive and thought it would work well on the back of my zine together with QR code for my Instagram page for this project, as well as Tumblr link.

For the interior of this 8parts A7 zine i used my favorite screen print of this projects.

While making research about zines, looking for inspiration or more methods for creating one, i came across this website:

More experiments with a different image, a halftone of one of my pictures of "Creatures". Will want to experiment it with Risograph and possibly play a bit more with the half tone to make the image more visible. I'm pleased with it non the less.

Today I've experimented through screen printing with my recent pictures of "Creatures" from the mundane that i created.

I was very satisfied with the photos so i was a bit unsure of how it would work translating them into screen printing, as i like the detailed environment created with the light/dark in the photos.

Although i think some of the prints didn't work as well, some of them worked pretty well, and gave me a better idea of how to explore this. I want to try them into Risograph to maintain the A3 size, since with the screens i felt i was having a bit of trouble with the images.

Today i explore some possible ideas to produce prints from my concept. Using the previous photos, of which i'm very satisfied with the result, i experimented digitally, manipulating them using the resources i have at the moment available, such as: Canva.com; SnapSeed; Photo Editor.

Also found this web page which i thought could be useful until im able to have access to Photoshop (this Pandemic is making things harder but we improvise!😉)

Will choose some of these to product some prints on Thursday, when we have some studio time...can't wait!

Also made this manipulation but simple mirroring the my previous collage. I'm quite fond of the result from such a simple alteration, i like the environment it creates and the composition, ot almost looks likes a creature of some sorts. Think it really connects with my work.

*Transform/Creatures* ideas III

Using mundane objects my intention is to create the idea of these creatures and surrealistic environments, giving this objects a new dimension and visual interest thats the observer wouldn't normally take in consideration.