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Concept & Process
Source of Inspiration
I wanted to explore the relationship between identity and physical appearance. This idea came from discussion I had with another OCA student during a study day. This reminded me somehow of an article I came across on BBC on ‘choice blindness’ and triggered a reflection on how we often make judgment on people when don’t know all in the first minute of meeting them. This is the so- called ‘first impression’. I reflected on whether we would make the same judgement if we could only partially see the person and thus decided to address this through exercise 3.2 and 3.3.
Materials
- Round acrylic brush n.6 and no.8
- Large flat square brush
- Griffin Alkyd paint
- Mixing knife
- Household white spirit
- Rags
Working Process
- Reference images selection.
- Digitally manipulation of selected photo to reduce them down to five tones and ease the painting process.
- Working on one character at the time, reflecting and implementing lesson learned in subsequent prints.
- Various techniques used. This are indicated under each print.
I considered caring on some A3 format prints but quickly realized that it would be difficult with alkyd paint as it dries relatively fast, so I stuck with A4 format. I used a 2mm acrylic sheet as printing plate and undiluted paint.
Definition
- Wet-on-dry: the sheet of paper is applied dry against the matrix, pressed and removed.
- Wet-on-dry + soak: the sheet of paper is applied dry against the matrix, pressed, then the back is soaked with white-spirit
and removed.
- Wet-on-wet: the sheet of paper was soaked in white-spirit 10 min prior printing.