Drypoint Printing

In this lesson we were required to produce samples of etching using the same techniques the Chapman Brothers that does painting and prints.

Materials Needed

• Perspex plate
• Etching tools
• Caligo Printing inks
• Scrims
• Watercolours
• Printing press

Health and Safety

• Make sure you keep your work a era clean and tidy
• Keep area ventilated
•   Wear protective clothing
• Use a cutting matt when etching to stop the plate from moving.

Using a sharp etching tool, incise into the perspex.

Rubbing small amounts of caligo ink into the incised lines with scrim, work in a circular motion ensured the ink is pushed in.

Wipe off any excess ink off the surface of the plate.

Lay the etched plate on the printing bed and on top the plate lay a pice of dampened piece of watercolour paper.Cover with the felt blanket and roll through the printing press. Carefully lift the print from the plate. Allow to dry.

Monoprint

It is a one off print, the word ‘Mono’ means one.
It is known as monotype, monoprinting is a way of
producing expressive one-off images, allowing you to use
the strengths of printing together with the 'spontaneity' painting and drawing.

There are three types of monoprinting,  one is positive or additive.

Ink is rolled onto a plastic sheet or glass, paper is then laid over the top. A
drawing tool is used to apply pressure which transfers the ink onto the opposite side of the paper.

There are different ways to do monoprinting,  here are some;
Drawing into the ink
Laying paper and drawing onto it
Painting directly onto plate
Stenciling
Printing with or without a press

http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/missfcmay/monoprinting-16346331
This link at the top take you straight to positive and negative printing methods along with images

The next print method is reductive or subtractive

It can be created by covering the plate entirely
with etching ink. Remove the ink partially or wholly for the
lighter and white areas of the picture being made to produce a
negative or subtractive print. This can be carried out using
brushes, toothpicks, cotton swabs, foam, rubber, fingers, etc. When
the picture on the plate is finished then it can be run through an etching press with dampened paper

Painterley

Tools which can be use for this technique:

Biros: Soft, thick lines for additive method
Sharp pencil: Crisp Lines for additive method
Cotton buds: For creating areas of texture during additive method or
taking areas away during reductive method
Tooth picks: Fine Line detail for reductive and additive methods
Paint brushes: For reductive, additive and painted method.

http://marytaylorart.com/Gel/How_to_page.html

Facts

 The Harlem-renaissance era


The Harlem-renaissance era is actually called the New Negro Movement. It shows the black cultural identity in the 1920s and 1930s.
Critic and teacher Alain Locke described it as a "spiritual coming of age" in which the black community was able to seize upon its "first chances for group expression and self determination."   The intent of this movement, however, was not political but "aesthetic."

The Harlem Renaissance eara has influenced future generations of black writers, however it was largely ignored by the literary arrangement after it was decreased in the 1930s. With the arrival of the civil rights movement, but later on it "acquired" wider recognition.

Read more: The Birth of the Harlem Renaissance: History & Timeline | Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmharlem1.html#ixzz3O5WlgDkL

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/harlem-renaissance

It involved racial pride, supported in part by the militancy of the "New Negro" demanding civil and political rights. The Renaissance involved jazz and the blues, which attracted whites to Harlem "speakeasies", where different races  couples danced.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_harlem.html


Greek Mythology

There is not any actual text, for example,  the Christian Bible or the Hindu Vedas that shows all of the myths characters and stories. Instead, the earliest Greek myths were part of an oral tradition that started in the Bronze Age, and their plots and themes were discovered in written literature of the "archaic" and their classical periods.

The poet Homer’s 8th-century BC epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, for example, tell the story of the (mythical) Trojan War as a divine conflict as well as a human one. They did not, bother to introduce the gods and goddesses who are their main characters, since the readers and listeners would already have been familiar with them.


Around 700 BC, the poet Hesiod’s Theogony gave the first written origin story, of Greek mythology. The Theogony tells the story of the universe’s journey from nothingness (Chaos, a primeval void) to being, and details an elaborate family tree of elements, gods and goddesses who evolved from Chaos and descended from Gaia (Earth), Ouranos (Sky), Pontos (Sea) and Tartaros (the Underworld).

Later Greek writers and artists used and elaborated upon these sources in their own work. Mythological figures and events appear in the 5th-century plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides and the lyric poems of Pindar. Writers such as the 2nd-century BC Greek mythographer Apollodorus of Athens and the 1st-century BC Roman historian Gaius Julius Hyginus compiled the ancient myths and legends for contemporary audiences.

Heroes and Monsters

Greek mythology does not tell the stories of gods and goddesses. But human heroes–such as Heracles, the adventurer who performed 12 impossible labors for King Eurystheus (and was later worshipped as a god for his accomplishment).

 Pandora, the first woman, whose curiosity brought evil to mankind; Pygmalion, the king who fell in love with an ivory statue.

Arachne, the weaver who was turned into a spider for her arrogance. Handsome Trojan prince Ganymede became the cupbearer for the gods.

 Midas, the king with the golden touch.

Narcissus, the young man who fell in love with his own reflection–are just as significant.

Monsters and “hybrids” (human-animal forms) also feature prominently in the tales: the winged horse Pegasus, the horse-man Centaur, the lion-woman Sphinx and the bird-woman Harpies, the one-eyed giant Cyclops, automatons (metal creatures given life by Hephaistos), manticores and unicorns, Gorgons, pygmies, minotaurs, satyrs and dragons of all sorts. Many of these creatures have become well known as the gods, goddesses and heroes who have shared their stories.

The characters, stories, themes and lessons of Greek mythology has now become art, and literature for thousands of years. They appear in Renaissance paintings such as Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Raphael’s Triumph of Galatea and writings like Dante’s Inferno; Romantic poetry and libretti; and more recent novels, plays and films have these myths.

http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/greek-mythology

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