Ella Gurr
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This week I started the above work on the first of my exhibition pieces, I decided that alongside my main seven portraits I am doing I am also going to do smaller portraits of family members to broaden my exhibition work and really make it feel like I’ve explored every familiar face in my life.
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This week I started working on two smaller portraits as I have decided to go along my central portraits I am going to have some smaller ones of my family, presented a bit like how nineteenth century family portraits would be like. I have decided that unlike the central portraits which I have decided to
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This week started with me accidentally removing the portrait that I had previously applied to this stone using gum transfer, I used too strong of an etch which wiped the portrait off completely, I thought perhaps maybe some would be brought back after inking the stone up in the second etch but alas it did
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I started off the week, re-graining this stone below as last week when I did it circular scratches appeared in the stone surface, most likely as a result of me managing to get some grit mixed up between changing the grain. But with a re-do the scratches came out so I was ready to be
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It is the start of February and the first week of the semester, I came back into the studio to my two old stones from last year (pictured below), I decided to re-grain both the stones so that I could start new work on them next week. I have also pictured below a portrait drawing
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Reaching the end of the year I wanted to do a blog post just looking back at all the work I’ve done this year just to round up the results of my work, my opinions/reflections and where it will lead me. Below is a gallery of all of the final prints from this year from
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It is Monday today and this is the last week of the semester, everything seems to have accumulated to a lot of work that needs to be done. I have four stones finished so far and four different prints that have experimented with portraiture. The stone below is my fifth stone for the year, I
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Next week is the last week before Christmas meaning I only have time for this last drawing and then next week will consist of colour printing my previous stone and then printing the stone pictured above. The stone above allowed me to practice a more romanticist approach to portraits this week, focusing more on perfecting
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Starting off this week I finished drawing up a new stone, this time I was more focused on Romanticism influences when doing the portrait. I also wanted to avoid using the tusche wash and instead just use a Korn lithograph pencil to draw the portrait. One minor mishap I had was that after drawing the
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So far this semester I have drawn up three stones, I have really enjoyed starting to explore the limits of portraiture using lithography as my medium. With these three stones I have predominantly used a touche wash to create the portraits but now moving onto my fourth stone and progressing late into the semester I
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