What is color? How does it affect what we see? How does it effect our emotions? Color plays an essential part in not only the visual arts but in all aspects of life. Could you imagine a world or black, white and grey? Color transcends the ordinary into the extraordinary. Color is such an individualizedContinueContinue reading “The World of Color”
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Dragonfly Exposure
Onto the photo emulsion project. For this project we had to do a design with at least two photo emulsion exposures. I decided on a dragonfly theme for this project. I wanted to project to have multiple design elements. The dragonflies would be the primary elements but I also wanted to work with layering, incorporatingContinueContinue reading “Dragonfly Exposure”
Screenprinting: Experimenting With Screen Filler and Drawing Fluid
The next screen printing project was right up my alley. The theme for this project was experimentation. It is always so invigorating but frustrating to the creative process when you are experimenting with techniques and materials. The project required using screen filler and/or drawing fluid to create a print. Paper or acetate stencils could alsoContinueContinue reading “Screenprinting: Experimenting With Screen Filler and Drawing Fluid”
Printing Again…
It has been a while, how easy time slips away from you. Back in the printing class since the end of August and here we are almost at the end of October. I took a good break over the summer got some art workshops in, took an amazing trip to Greece an Italy. An art loversContinueContinue reading “Printing Again…”
Acid Adventures
The first attempts at etching with copper plates is complete. I think I really like the etching of the copper plates. If I had to pick one technique over all the ones we have tried this semester, I think it would be this one. To get our feet wet on the acid process. We startedContinueContinue reading “Acid Adventures”
Fancy Free with Intaglio
More and more I am learning the the possibilities of printmaking are endless. My first project with an Intaglio process was with a drypoint technique on an acrylic plate. The print design is etched into the acrylic plate with an etching needle. I enjoyed the process of the etching process for this technique. As willContinueContinue reading “Fancy Free with Intaglio”
Meanderings…A beginning
Welcome to my creative Meanderings…let the journey through my creative mind begin. This journey has been many years in the making. I am finally going down the path that feeds my soul and makes me smile inside. It is the eve of my final critique for the Drawing II class. I continue to surprise myself.ContinueContinue reading “Meanderings…A beginning”