Landscape
Figures
ArchitectureCategory: Material Experiments
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Beetroot tales
1: Railbridge 1
Bench 2: Field 1
1: Railbridge 2Stalk stories
Bench 2: Field 7
Intro image: Traces
1: Railbridge 4Beetroot bunnies
Other images to develop
Bench 4: Stable 5
Bench 4: Stable 4
Bench 3: Rithy City 8 -
Treacle
Letter T
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Enamel tiles
I use enamel tiles a lot for mixing inks and paint. These often leave very interesting images that can be photographed and scanned and then composited in Photoshop. Many different types of line and texture can be produced using different media, and different types of scratching or smudging implements.
Images can also be printed on paper, or used as backdrawn monoprints.
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Emery paper
Emery paper is smooth fine black sandpaper, used for fine sanding metal. It has a really interesting texture that can take media such as pastel and paint.
In my work on Assignment 5 I discovered some ways of using it for quite dramatic images.
Some of the accidental textures already on old emery paper from earlier sanding and photographing light shining on new emery sheets gave some quite dramatic effects when scanned – particularly the explosion from the mouth with aeroplanes in the background.
Emery Paper
Emulsion on emery paper
Emulsion paint made flat shape images that retained the brush strokes, and can also be scratched into.
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Drypoint
I had experimented using dremels and drills on acetate and other surfaces from my OCA Printmaking course. See:
http://print.zemniimages.info/portfolio/3-9-experimental-markmaking/
http://print.zemniimages.info/portfolio/3-9-other-relief-experiments/
Demonic dogs, dancing dinosaurs and drippy danhdelion dew
I had intended to use the normal drypoint technique for my image for the letter D, printing with ink. With the transparent acetate all my dog and triangle dinosaur sketches could be easily traced on the reverse.
But when I started I did not realise that the acetate drypoint plates had a protective film. As I scratched into it it started to make very interesting textures around the line – like stitching and drips. There were also very interesting shadows as the sun shone through the window onto the yellowing plates.
So, as I was also thinking about compositing digitally, I thought I would see first what I could make of the images produced just by scratching, photographing and scanning before staining the plates with ink. In the end I liked these images and did not use ink.
Final image
This image still needs a lot of sorting out in Photoshop to get the blending, shadows and glows do what I want.
For more see:
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Alluminium foil
To be further developed as I do more on Saudi Arabia and use in other projects.
Textures: Foil Armaggedon
I also experimented with different ways of incising shapes into the aluminium foil with the intention of painting over with acryllic paint. I first explored scanning, then working with the scans in Photoshop. But in the end I may paint over with acryllic to really bring out some of the shapes before going to Photoshop.
Shapes: Alligators and allosaurs
These developed by accident as I was tearing up the foil for Armeggedon below, and I noticed some of the shapes that started to look like male or female alligators, so I played around a bit with this idea and did a number of different scans, crops and inversions.
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Card and cardboard
This post is to be expanded with examples from other assignments and final logbook
Corrugated cardboard
Using carbon paper is particularly interesting as you cannot tell exactly what you are drawing, and the pen gets stuck in ruts and diverted.
Cutting shapes and peeling, then scanning at different exposures and contrast. The torn edges can be very interesting as well as the sharp cuts.
Try with chocolate: chocolate cats
Different effects are produced on different types of card. It was impossible to really control. But smooth white card glided, absorbent card gave a more water colour effect.
