#print project

We did it Boys!! 🥂 Now let's start the Cups Swords pip cards!

🃏🌟Major Arcana here

I added Teresa's 100 Clever Creative Cards (2018) to my DLCC legacy software archive.

Rare Windows 10 title on DVD-ROM! 😲

It was a busy reading week, in-between work I looked into Gill, I thought maybe making a sort of inspiration mood board page might help me get into his mind set of what inspires him and when looking into him I found he had produced and published a series of works on his thoughts and feeling about various topics such as art and religion. I read into those seeing if I could cherry pick some quotations to run with but sadly nothing stood out. 

After that I started to play with the female form again, it was certainly idea I was drawn to but I didn't want to run with that first idea without getting some research to back my thoughts up! I played with drawing the female form on receipts which then moved on to drawing on tracing paper, a medium I think gives any image a sense of magic or something similar to that! I drew the female form using a white pencil and liked the way the image was invisible on a white background but popped when put on top of something with colour. In my head it was as if the image had control of what was seen by the viewer depending on the background which I liked a lot. I then chose to play with basic potato print printing over the image with ‘>Object’ it was direct which I liked.

Scans of each idea

I found looking into Eric Gill somewhat fascinating; not only has he managed to do so much within the art and crafts movement yet he has also managed to be the most problematic in his conflicting views between Catholicism and is curiosity for seeking pleasure. Its a shame because it affects the way I see his work now, i’m not even surprised at the fact that his personal opinions have been sept away or sugar coated for him to continually be celebrated.

Tate Britain - 16th October

This is our first brief that actually reflects our chosen pathway which is super exciting, we were told to meet outside the Tate Britain where we were to go over our brief and get more info about what what the days plan was.

We had been given a print that was located within the secret print room inside the Tate and had time slots within the day where we could analyse the image, I had been given a beautiful wood cut print by Eric Gill that dipicted 6 small illustrative images with latin text around one of the images. Within the brief there were questions that gave us prompts of what to look for and what we could analyse; having these to work from was helpful and it also allowed me to look into the other prints that were around and influence my thought process!

After leaving the Tate I chose to look into the artist, the type of printing method he chose and his other works