Brief:
Exploring various different image-making skills, applying observational drawing skills in an urban environment and learning printmaking skills such as drypoint, embossing, collograph, chine-colle and monotype.
Exercise 1:
Went around Techno park and used blind continuous drawing technique.
Exercise 2:
Similar drawing technique than exercise 1 but instead we were drawing structures in the Stellenbosch Central environment.
Exercise 3:
We had to try and capture the movement of people in the Stellenbosch Central environment.
Exercise 4:
Traced with oil monotype. This exercise was very new to me but it was one of my favourite exercises.
Exercise 5:
Oil monotype was used again but the method was stencils. Also one of my favourite exercises. The texture was absolutely beautiful when the paint was pressed onto the paper.
Exercise 6:
Oil monotype was used in a painterly method. This was one of my least favourite methods to do. I did not have control over the paint in the way I wanted it to be.
Exercise 7:
Collograph and stencils methods were used with tinfoil wrapped around the materials that made the texture.
Exercise 8:
Chin colle was a messy process with the pieces and glue but it was a method that I enjoyed a lot
Exercise 9:
Embossing techniques were used. It was very fun to create the materials that would emboss a mark onto the paper.
Exercise 10:
Transfers is a familiar method to me and I enjoyed making various types of transfers
Exercise 11:
Drypoint is my number 1 favourite method. Etching the marks was sore for the wrists but the end result was worth it. The end result reminded me of the texture and style you would find on a wanted poster.
Exercise 12:
Watercolour-based monotypes were made in this exercise and during this exercise, it reminded me of why I do not prefer working with paint.
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