Print! - Clutter mini project

We were given a mini one day project on "clutter". I thought and thought about it but couldnt come up with any different idea other than actual clutter. So I decided to base my project on the ornamental clutter in the bathroom, shells. If I was going to do clutter I wanted to do something beautiful so the shells were perfect.
I began by taking 4 pictures as the project brief stated...

<-- my fav

I chose to use my first and favourite photo and drew it onto my acetate and etched it in using a compass. Dry point was my favourite print process so I definately wanted to do it again. Having my sheet prepared the night before I got straight to work the next morning.

After doing 5 or 6 of these dry point prints I started experimenting with mono printing over them to try and create shadow and light within the picture. It was a bit time consuming but I came up with 3 finished prints, each slightly different. They didnt turn out how I expected but I did the best I could do and I am pleased with what I got done in a day :)





Print! - Burn baby burn :P

Firstly I arranged my prints into the simple arched fireplace shape so as to see how big it was going to be and how I need to cut and adjust my prints.

I then cut a semi circle out from the top to create an arch.

And filled in the gaps to complete the arch

I decided that the background of my fire place should be a charcoal colour black to make my dry point prints stand out. I painted 3 strips of lining paper (about 150cm each) with black poster paint mixed with a little white. I allowed them to dry before taping them together at the back.

I stuck my arch made from my fire place prints onto the three sheets of black lining paper. I then took my cancer cell prints and cut them out in different sized circles (cells) and stuck them into the fireplace, starting with red on the bottom, orange and then purple on top.

I am very happy with the way it turned out in the end!