Prints! Prints! Prints!
-Uncertain Oddity
By Oliver Scott
This project we focused more on making prints out of a rubbery tile. The designs were cut out with small sharp tools until the piece was finished. Ink would be spread onto the top of the tile and pressed onto paper. To me, this print represents a strange looking squid and its surroundings. This print in important to me because I enjoy creating art that has to do with the sea and its creatures. Something in the way they look and move really interests me.
The imagery I used was a sort of abstract, with many of the tentacles moving in different ways and facing different directions. No one part of it is the same. Also with the circles, I chose this abstract pattern of two circles constantly growing, but one of the circles overlaps the other. I left some space blank on the print, just for a background, because I wanted tere to be some space left in it. I didn’t want a jumble. For my colors I chose blue and gray because it can be one of my favorite color combinations and because I wanted to create a print with the gray squid and blue circles. I used a new method of printing. I pushed glued colored paper onto my frame and stamped the ink on. I am proud of the product. In a way this print symbolizes my fear of the ocean. Ever since I was a young child I have been afraid of large bodys of water. My fear of open water stemmed from me not knowing what was under me, which could be seen as a fear of the unknown. This print represents what could have been under the ocean.
I designed my print in this way because something about the ocean is strange yet interesting to me. I wanted to make a incohesive mess of tentacles where no one looked the same as another. I think that played into its alien properties.
-Uncertain Oddity
By Oliver Scott
This project we focused more on making prints out of a rubbery tile. The designs were cut out with small sharp tools until the piece was finished. Ink would be spread onto the top of the tile and pressed onto paper. To me, this print represents a strange looking squid and its surroundings. This print in important to me because I enjoy creating art that has to do with the sea and its creatures. Something in the way they look and move really interests me.
The imagery I used was a sort of abstract, with many of the tentacles moving in different ways and facing different directions. No one part of it is the same. Also with the circles, I chose this abstract pattern of two circles constantly growing, but one of the circles overlaps the other. I left some space blank on the print, just for a background, because I wanted tere to be some space left in it. I didn’t want a jumble. For my colors I chose blue and gray because it can be one of my favorite color combinations and because I wanted to create a print with the gray squid and blue circles. I used a new method of printing. I pushed glued colored paper onto my frame and stamped the ink on. I am proud of the product. In a way this print symbolizes my fear of the ocean. Ever since I was a young child I have been afraid of large bodys of water. My fear of open water stemmed from me not knowing what was under me, which could be seen as a fear of the unknown. This print represents what could have been under the ocean.
I designed my print in this way because something about the ocean is strange yet interesting to me. I wanted to make a incohesive mess of tentacles where no one looked the same as another. I think that played into its alien properties.