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  • Assignment 2: Abstraction: the questioning mind

    I have already said, that I interpret abstraction here as a process, and have explored different processes, letting the  processes determine the outcome, to a degree. It’s like trying to “automate” the work- a…

  • Assignment 2: Copper Plate etching: Abstract

    So, this was a copper plate etching I started on my last day at this summer’s Non-toxic intaglio course. It is a combination of different techniques, so really just evolved as I practices various…

  • Assignment 2: Abstraction by degree: Cyanotypes

    This was another new technique- quite a simple one, but in keeping with the Breaking Bad approach I’m veering towards at the moment, with my new found interest in Science. This is the use…

  • Assignment 2: Abstraction: Materials and process: gesture

    The course designer suggests approaching abstraction in two ways: geometric and gestural. The thing about being “gestural ” with printmaking is that the marks you make are indirect, so there’s not the same immediacy…

  • Assignment 2: Abstraction: Serendipity

      I’m defining abstraction rather generally. Yet, I understand abstraction as a process: abstraction FROM something… But my problem with abstraction is, what subject matter do I begin with? Or do try to come…

  • Assignment 2: From sketch to abstraction: looking

    One of the biggest challenges for me is using my own sketches to arrive at an abstract image. (I know that this is not what the coursebook suggests as a direction here, but it…

  • Assignment 2: Abstraction: A kind of a beginning

    I’m writing this up in retrospect.  I’ve done a lot of experimenting over the summer, and am only now, at the end of August, bringing things together. But it’s hard to construct a narrative…

  • Practice 4: Ferric Chloride: Hard ground

    This was the same plate again, this time coated with two layers of Johnson’s floor polish, then engraved with an engraving needle into the white areas of the plate that had been stopped out…

  • Practice 3: Ferric chloride day 3: soft ground

    This was an experiment with soft ground. I wanted to know how to achieve soft drawn lines, rather than hard0-bitten ones, and it seemed that a layer of soft ground and pencil could work.…

  • Assignment 2: Abstraction: the questioning mind

    I have already said, that I interpret abstraction here as a process, and have explored different processes, letting the  processes determine the outcome, to a degree. It’s like trying to “automate” the work- a…

  • Assignment 2: Copper Plate etching: Abstract

    So, this was a copper plate etching I started on my last day at this summer’s Non-toxic intaglio course. It is a combination of different techniques, so really just evolved as I practices various…

  • Assignment 2: Abstraction by degree: Cyanotypes

    This was another new technique- quite a simple one, but in keeping with the Breaking Bad approach I’m veering towards at the moment, with my new found interest in Science. This is the use…

  • Assignment 2: Abstraction: Materials and process: gesture

    The course designer suggests approaching abstraction in two ways: geometric and gestural. The thing about being “gestural ” with printmaking is that the marks you make are indirect, so there’s not the same immediacy…

  • Assignment 2: Abstraction: Serendipity

      I’m defining abstraction rather generally. Yet, I understand abstraction as a process: abstraction FROM something… But my problem with abstraction is, what subject matter do I begin with? Or do try to come…

  • Assignment 2: From sketch to abstraction: looking

    One of the biggest challenges for me is using my own sketches to arrive at an abstract image. (I know that this is not what the coursebook suggests as a direction here, but it…

  • Assignment 2: Abstraction: A kind of a beginning

    I’m writing this up in retrospect.  I’ve done a lot of experimenting over the summer, and am only now, at the end of August, bringing things together. But it’s hard to construct a narrative…

  • Practice 4: Ferric Chloride: Hard ground

    This was the same plate again, this time coated with two layers of Johnson’s floor polish, then engraved with an engraving needle into the white areas of the plate that had been stopped out…

  • Practice 3: Ferric chloride day 3: soft ground

    This was an experiment with soft ground. I wanted to know how to achieve soft drawn lines, rather than hard0-bitten ones, and it seemed that a layer of soft ground and pencil could work.…

  • Assignment 2: Abstraction: the questioning mind

    I have already said, that I interpret abstraction here as a process, and have explored different processes, letting the  processes determine the outcome, to a degree. It’s like trying to “automate” the work- a…

  • Assignment 2: Copper Plate etching: Abstract

    So, this was a copper plate etching I started on my last day at this summer’s Non-toxic intaglio course. It is a combination of different techniques, so really just evolved as I practices various…

  • Assignment 2: Abstraction by degree: Cyanotypes

    This was another new technique- quite a simple one, but in keeping with the Breaking Bad approach I’m veering towards at the moment, with my new found interest in Science. This is the use…

  • Assignment 2: Abstraction: Materials and process: gesture

    The course designer suggests approaching abstraction in two ways: geometric and gestural. The thing about being “gestural ” with printmaking is that the marks you make are indirect, so there’s not the same immediacy…

  • Assignment 2: Abstraction: Serendipity

      I’m defining abstraction rather generally. Yet, I understand abstraction as a process: abstraction FROM something… But my problem with abstraction is, what subject matter do I begin with? Or do try to come…

  • Assignment 2: From sketch to abstraction: looking

    One of the biggest challenges for me is using my own sketches to arrive at an abstract image. (I know that this is not what the coursebook suggests as a direction here, but it…

  • Assignment 2: Abstraction: A kind of a beginning

    I’m writing this up in retrospect.  I’ve done a lot of experimenting over the summer, and am only now, at the end of August, bringing things together. But it’s hard to construct a narrative…

  • Practice 4: Ferric Chloride: Hard ground

    This was the same plate again, this time coated with two layers of Johnson’s floor polish, then engraved with an engraving needle into the white areas of the plate that had been stopped out…

  • Practice 3: Ferric chloride day 3: soft ground

    This was an experiment with soft ground. I wanted to know how to achieve soft drawn lines, rather than hard0-bitten ones, and it seemed that a layer of soft ground and pencil could work.…