Monday 18 October 2010

Assigment 2 (update)




I took a week off work to progress this assigment as I had slipped behind due to other committments.

I started off by designing the first single colour lino cut. I chose to base it on a drawing I had done of some gravestones in Brompton Cemetary which I liked because the light was good and created strong shadows which I felt I would be able to use to good effect. Also there was a recession in the image due to one gravestone being very close looking out across others into the middle distance. The sky in between the graves also created an interesting negative space.

I have created a separate page with my detailed learning points as I made the prints.

I then went on to develop ideas for another image based around a grave I found in a church yard in Essex with a cage over it. The body was that of a 15 year old girl called Sarah Wrench who died in the 1800's. The cage was apparently to stop grave robbers stealing her body and that of her unborn child and I found it very evocative.

It reminded me of the shelter drawings of Henry Moore so I did some exploratry drawings and colour notes. I noticed the way Moore used a cage like structure to define the bodies of the sleepers and I drecided to make a cage like mask of a sleepers head.

Once I had created this 3D object I photographed it in dramatic lighting and then used the printed A4 versions as the design for my block.

Tutor Report Forms

I have created a separate page with all my Tutor Report Forms on it. I have also included my comments and learning points.