Module 3 Chapter 4

Printed lines

This is my first page with the various tools I used to print.  I did acquire a few more over the time I spent doing the printing.

From now on I have mixed the two activities.  I was so busy printing away that I didn't realise I had done some of activity one and then some of activity two and then gone back to one.

On the left is printing as many prints as possible before recharging my stamp.  On the right I have printed curved lines.

Again this is printing as long as possible without recharging the stamp and again it is straight lines of stamps on the left and curved lines on the right.

This one is a bit pale but they are overlapping prints in wavy lines.

These are also overlapping prints.  The top one is with a single stamp the bottom one is with two different stamps and in a different colour.

Here I have introduced a second colour into the printing.  

The top one is random overlapping prints and the bottom one gradually get closer together and the line changes.

Here I introduced another colour.  The top picture shows the stamp picking up two colours.  The bottom picture I have changed the colour intermittently.

I missed this page earlier.  On the left are groups of overlapping prints and on the right I have introduced a second colour into the printing.

The top one is two colours overlapping and I quite like this one.  The second one is overlapping prints with a second print added in a different colour.

I went to a workshop to learn Batik.  I had never done it before so I used the printing techniques for my first piece just to get used to how to do the wax and this is the result.

I then did this piece which I do quite like and I am sure I can use but it demonstrates the use of printing a shape but in a different technique.

Module 3 Chapter 3

Kandinsky

I looked on Google images at pictures by Kandinsky but you have to be careful, not all of them are by him.  I was interested to see that not all the shapes are a single block of colour, some are shaded and some are mixed colours.  I chose these three pictures as representative of his work.

I particularly liked the one in the middle and based my own picture on that one.  However, before I started that one I spotted this picture and had to have a go at representing it . I think it looks like a little alien.

I got so far with my main picture and wasn't sure where to go next.  My daughter didn't think it needed anymore doing to it but I thought it did.  So I took your advice from an earlier module and I photographed what I had done so far.  I also photocopied it and worked on the copy.

This is the original

and this is the photocopy with the extra pieces added.  I am not convinced about the black half triangle at the top left, I thought the straight black line would link it all together but it isn't right, it's the only straight line in the picture and looks odd.

Making pictures like Kandinsky was harder than I expected.  Getting the balance right takes some thought but I enjoyed doing it just the same.  It was nice to look at his work again.

Mod 3 Chapter 2 - Creating Movement with line

This first exercise is done with a fineline pen number 8.

The first square is (allegedly) straight lines, the second is straight lines with variable spacing.  The third is wavy lines and the fourth is stepped lines.

The next two are done in 3B pencil and start with wavy lines either side of a central straight line.  I didn't think the first one had much of a wave to it so I did a second one which are more like bulges than waves.

The next four are done in charcoal.  The first page is zig zag lines and wavy lines.  The second page is  the same but using the side of the charcoal stick rather than the point.

The next set is done with pen and ink.  Firstly lines moving round solid discs and the second one is line moving round squares and rectangles.

I then decided to have a go and see what happened when you mixed the shapes.

I missed this page of waves and zig zag's.  All done with a staedtler fine pen.

Here I have used colour after looking at the Bridget Riley painting below.  I couldn't get the waviness right but I quite liked the patterns it created.  Done with coloured pencils.

This is Bridget Riley.  I have pasted the black and white design in on it's side as I find it a bit easier on the eye that way.

I chose these two pages of Victor Vasarely paintings.  I loved the face but my daughter hated it, she thought it was scary.

 These are my Paul Klee choices.  The first is called 'Exuberance' and it certainly has plenty of that.

I chose these pictures by Franz Marc.  The small one is of foxes and the larger one birds.   I love the colour in these.

This last one is my version of a Victor Vasarely.  I made a bit of a mess with the paint and I realised that the colour changes don't work when doing them straight across the page.  They have to be angled or curved to be able to make the changes.  Am reasonably happy with the result as I know where my mistakes are.