#creativeprintmaking

Here is a final presentation of Hearts suit with all the cards of the suit in a simple but classic way.

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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.

I made 2 diferent collages using past work i had put away: Images of faces doing expressions, used in the past for portrait unit; paper with marks of printing i've kept for other past works as well.

My intention was to create a composition with these, which i experimented before compromising to a definite one.

I then decided to apply some stitching, inspired by Annegret Soltau, but in a diferent way that would work and provoke impact within my collage.

The hand of this one was accidental, i had it cut out already but was distracted doing some more research and when i looked down, i had it on top of my collage and i felt like it worked really well! Happy accidents!

Digital Manipulation: i decide to montage the 2 different collages to create the digital, where i overlaid and played about with diferent settings.

Started by using tracing paper to transfer the design into a lino plate, which i then cut and started by doing test prints with black relief ink.

Then i went on to experiment with different background:

As i thought, i'm not please with the "leg" so i decided to remove it.

After going through my moodboard i decided to create thumbnails of possible ideas to design the card suits. My intention is not to totally change the shape of the suit but instead use it to integrate the imagery i want to work with. So, by making this quick sketch thumbnails i can have a better view and thought tis would be a good starting point, with possibly more and different ideas coming up as the work progresses.

For Clubs i quite like the idea of using the BioHazard sign as inspiration as the shape fits perfectly with it, but i still want to explore the gas mask idea too.

For Diamonds i'm still a bit uncertain but i would like to keep it colourful as is such a big shape, dont want it with a flat colour. Quite like the idea of using pentacles as a design as this is also the symbol for this suit.

For Spades, due to its shape im incline to work with skulls or bone structure.

Part I

For this workshop i experimented with diferent images i had already at home from past works and the intention was to create something inspired by Adam Pendleton. I'm using the sentence "Mind the Gap" which i saw in an old photo i took in a train station, but the reason i decided to use its because of the deeper meaning this can have in a social and political sense. Meaning the Gap between people and economic levels and how we treat each other, specially now in Pandemic times, where people create even more of a "Gap" between them, among other things. I felt this sentence was very appropriate in so many levels.

After playing a bit with composition i decided to make a stencil of the sentence and experiment with that, using some spray paint.

Digital manipulation response:

I liked both coloured and black and white, but i like more how you can see the textures on the coloured one.