Final Printmaking Project

The only guidelines that were set for our final project this semester were that we had to create a series of prints that related to each other in some fashion.
I decided to work using Stone Lithography, focusing on the subject matter that involved figures in certain settings. My plan was to use the sketchy frantic style of mark making that i had explored in my "Minotaur" piece.

First Attempt at Tousche Wash

This was a landscape assignment created in order to try and learn how too work using the Tousche wash method in stone litho. The image was just something that i pulled off the internet in order to play with it. It is defiantly easy to tell that the Tousche method is much more difficult to use that simply using the grease pencil. The Tousche is much less responsive to the acid in etching, And when printing it is very difficult to get gray tones. Im not very excited with how this piece turned out, but it was valueble learning experience.

Product of All Night Prent Session

The Minotaur.


This semester my class decided to organize an all night print session, which is exactly what it sounds like. The class gets all nigh passes in order to be aloud to stay in the Print Shop all night without getting kicked out. I started the session with only a Stone that already had an image on it so i had to grind the stone, edge of the sides, come up with an image, put the image on the stone, etch the stone, and the print the stone. I think we started around ten and finished up at 5 Thirty or so.

Initially i was thinking about this odd little sketch that i did in my sketch book while i was watching the movie "The Elephant Man." I was trying to think of other animals that i could combine with man and the figure of the minotaur came up, half man half bull. So i came up with a few gesture drawings, and instead of taking a long time to produce a well rendered image, i decided that it would be fun to use the energy that you get from a gesture drawing to produce a sort of aura about this charecter. It is from a series of ten.

First Stone Lithograph

So this was my first Attempt at Stone Lithography. it came out pretty good, and was the first step to me falling in love with this process. It was done using only the grease pencil and no Tousche wash, and was printed in a series of ten. Its just a self portrait of myself dressed up in a suit, merely a simple image to work from in order to learn the process.

First Aquatint

So this was my first ant only Attempt at an Aquatint, I like the process, but over the course of the semester i got so into Stone Lithography that it sort of fell by the wayside. The subject is just something that i pulled out of my head in order to give the process a shot.