Ella Gurr
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After etching my stone last week I was ready to print this week, again I used three different types of paper to continue to see how my prints look and feel like on different paper, these being; Somerset Satin White, Hahnemuhle and Rives Tan and a very thin Japanese paper. The print came out really
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Last week I finished this stone portrait of my mum, dad and brother, so this week I started the etching process. Now that this is my third time doing this I’m starting to understand the process better. After both etching processes were complete, the stone inked up really well and I was happy with how
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I started off this week ready to print the first stone I sketched up in week three, I bought three different types of paper ready to print on, these being; Somerset Satin White, Hahnemuhle and Rives Tan. Just to see how each one looks for future prints. Here you can see the three completed prints,
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After finishing etching my stone last week my first thing to get started this week was finally to print. I have only done the printing process once before so it was all pretty new to me but we went through it step by step. The three prints at the bottom of this photo were the
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Which artists, movements, groups, cultural and social ideas and beliefs, and other artistic forms in the past have had bearing on my own? Looking at artists in the past that have had a bearing on my work I would first talk about the Senefelder Club, in this group of artists were Francis Ernest Jackson, Edmund
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This weeks blog entry is going to be a longer one as I finished the first two drawings I have been doing as experimentation on my stones, so I have a lot to recap on. The first two pictures below show the start of a new lithograph, this time instead of sketching the portrait with
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This is a self-evaluation of my previous work last year and also a look towards what I would like to achieve and change this year within my work. Where has my work come from? In second year, I became more preoccupied in the theory behind my work, my subject matter developed from just observational painting
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Today I went downstairs in the School of Art to have a look round the gallery’s as currently being shown are many different prints, I came across two pieces by Francis Rudolph and found these to particularly interest me in regards to inspiring my own work this year. The first print by Francis Rudolph was
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This week I planned after doing some sketches in my sketchbook to start a drawing on stone, just something experimental to get to grips with the materials and techniques, going forward in the next two weeks. This is a quick portrait of my brother, in my sketchbook my drawing is more smooth and suggestive of
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The process of lithography was one I really enjoyed in second year so with my third year work I have decided to continue using this technique. I had never grained my own lithography stone in preparation to draw on it so this week I was taught how and left to do one myself, the steps
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