Printmaking Crit

                                             

The other week we had the "Printmaking crit" i showed the tutor my sketchbook because basically there is where i work and investigate the most, i would say that having a sketchbook allow me to quikly express my ideas and check if they work or not, if i like the result i can try later in other format, so it´s very important for me to make use of my sketchbook, pretty much the entire development of my work is recorded there.

For example i started thinking about basic lines, creating faces with a continuous line.         

                         

 

Then i tried some visual textures and other things such as creating textures with wood glue and playing with shapes and colours. Then i had other idea involving bubble wrap paper, basically i painted the paper with acrylic and then i used that to print on top of an acetate, changing colors and mixing everything up, then i discovered that it could be a good material to use with collage. I also looked some inspiring artists such as Krista Harris and did some proofs with acrylic in the sketchbook, basically i took notes of random ideas that poped up to my mind.

                                

 After all of that research and brainstroming i ended up having more like a finish  idea of what i wanted to do, i was interested in showing the idea of "print" my own way, for me it´s like a footprint, something that belongs to someone or something, that hides a story, and thinking about the idea of footprint i realised that human silhouettes can be understood as a kind of footprint too, actually, you can recognise someone just by his silhouette if you know him well, and if you don´t everyone could be the same person, it can be confusing and kind of cold in a way, not very personal and that´s why i incorporate acetates to the final work, my idea was to show people as a society, kind of reminding mass production concept, and acetates placed that way seemed aggresive and dangerouse, like a society could be.

But on the other hand, people i represented in the work are, most of them, people i know and that i can easily recognise by just their silhouette; so we have both ways of seeing the work.