Monday, 13 May 2013

Stop Motion Popes

So I decided to attempt to do a stop motion as well as part of my project.  I did a lot of them in first year using clay figures and cut outs so for this one I decided to attempt a drawing stop motion.

No one told me just how hard these are to make.

Every scene had to be drawn individually, then photographed and put together.

423 photos later, it was FINALLY ready to be put together.

Its rough and not very professional but pretty happy with having actually achieving it :)

Link for it on "The YouTube" :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLrxhopON5A


I can see the finish line..


For the prints of the twitter speech box I decided to do some on Photoshop aswel.  Now I am plain useless when it comes to technology, especially Photoshop so its very basic what I've done.







Aswel as this, I was also working on a reduction woodcut which has 5 colours altogether.


Attempting to make brown!

Managed it :D 

With 3 colours done

















All inked up, ready to go


With 4 colours
Next thing to do is black and then I'm pretty much done :)

Sunday, 12 May 2013

Etchings, acid, mighty craic...

I worked on a new image to go along with my Pope Benedict theme.  I based my etching on the Ring of The Fisherman.  This is basically the image which appears on every Pope's ring.  Its an image of Saint Peter who was a fisherman by trade.  When a Pope dies or in Benny's case, leaves the church, the ring gets destroyed.  Therefore every new Pope gets a new ring.

So playing on that idea, I took the image of the ring and made it look as though it had been destroyed, broken into 4 pieces.  I hadnt intended on doing an etching but when I came up with this image I felt it would look really well as an etching.

Starting out I did just a typical etching, submersing the plate in the acid, applying bitumen etc.


The image of the ring wasnt standing out as much as I had wanted so I decided to then do a quick aquatint on it to make an effect on the background of the etching plate.




This came out much better.  I decided to incorporate this print into my stain glass window display aswel so I printed on fabric.



As well as prints, I'm working on a drawing stop motion which take AGES to do. Its not very neat or professional looking but I've never attempted this before so hopefully it'll be watchable when its done.  Also working on a documentary for Martin's class on the "unsung heroes" of the art college, the people who work behind the scenes.  So we've basically interviewed Anne the librarian, Sean the receptionist and the lovely Noel, the caretaker and thankfully it's coming out really well :) Just have to put the finishing touches to it and then that's another thing off the to-do list.

#SummerCountdown

Saint Angelus has a certain ring to it...

Since my last blog, college has been fairly hectic! Between long days in the print room, surrounded by acid and inhaling crazy amounts of white spirit, blisters from using the printing press and stab wounds on my hands from my woodcutting tools, its fair to say I am LIVING for summer at this point.  The day I can sit down and do nothing cannot come fast enough!

With my fabric prints of the image of the tweet and also the image of Benny looking all sad and fed up, I finally got around to making the display for them.  These prints weren't exactly met with enthusiasm but I really like them so didnt want to not use them.  I got a frame built that resembled a stain glass window which I put to great use before making my prints ;)


I'd make a great saint :P

I then painted the frame black before going about sewing together all the fabric pieces.  For someone who really cant sew I think I did a fair good job...well, it's staying together anyways :P




























I'm really happy with how it came out, making myself go to college on a Saturday was worth it after all! ;)