BLOCK PRINT
Title: A judging feeling
Size: 23 x 15 cm October 2015 Exhibition Text: I elaborated this piece by carving into a plate and then applying ink to develop a copy, it is self made art work. This piece came out from my liking of flowers but also from the common problems that we face. For this piece, I was inspired by Georgia O'keeffe because of how she would apply to her work flowers and diverse topics that would surround her to elaborate them. |
ARTIST INSPIRATION
My inspiration for this piece was pretty challenging because of the involvement of flowers and the different details that I was giving to the piece. As well, as to how I saw and what it meant for me, and what i wanted to represent with what I did in my art piece. On this new project, my artist inspiration was Georgia O'Keeffe because of how she apply the flowers on her different pieces of art work, and the detail that she gathered throughout her paintings. However, most of her paintings were very mysterious and interesting because of the she involve different parts of things into her painting and different cultures on them as well. So many of this things inspired to take her as my inspiration and my way to draw and let my piece speak for herself.
IDEAS
MATERIALS
PROCESS
1. The first thing that I began doing was searching and looking for ideas to incorporate into my drawing.
2. Later I went into the computer and look up different examples and be a little bit more familiar with the
process of creating that type of art and his meaning behind it.
3. Then I took my sketch book and began writing different ideas that could lead to different ways of how
I could put together my ideas and the thoughts that I had in my mind to get to the sketch develop.
4. Then I got an idea to add flowers to my piece so then I tried to create an sketch with the flowers.
5. Later I research different styles and ways to develop an sketch of a flower.
6. By the research I did, I found my artist inspiration because of how this artist apply different types of
flowers into her at work so then I decide to choose Georgia O'Keeffe.
7. Then I choose to add to my sketch two different types of flowers, one in a healthy stage and one in
non-healthy stage, represent the judgement feeling that wanted to transmit through my drawing.
8. Then at the same time I wanted to incorporate like kind of a object that could symbolize or represent the
the judgement over the flower (person).
9. Later I tried to incorporate a hand as that object, at first I put it under the flowers but then for me it didn't
represent as much. So then I changed and put the hand on the top of the flowers.
10. Then I got my final parts to create my final drawing on the block print paper.
11. On the block print paper, On the top part of the paper I draw the hand as like the hand was going down and
trying to grab the prettier flower.
12. On the middle part of the paper I draw two different types of flowers, one with her petals open and in a really
happy healthier environment and a second one with close pedals and in a really sad not healthy environment.
13. After having done the drawing of my idea on the block print paper, I pick up the different carving tools to help
me carve and shape the image on the paper.
14. I began carving the image on the block print paper.
15. After carving the pictures that I had on the block print plate I wasn't content with the results, so the I added
other detail to my image. The details that I add were short and long lines lines on the side were the happy and
healthier flower was, to keep a lighter side to it and to the sad and unhealthier flower I use lived like it was, a
darker side.
16. Then I went and take with me the block print plate that was all carve in and finish to the other stage, printed
on a printing paper.
17. First I put my block print paper on top of a piece of paper of newspaper to make sure it is protected.
18. Later I took out the bottle of the ink that I am going to use, to print the image of the block print plate to the
print paper.
19. Then I took out a metal plate, an ink roller, and a spatula.
20. I put down the metal plate on the table that I am going to work and then I take the bottle containing the ink.
Later with the spatula I put out the necessary amount to print my piece.
21. Later I took the spatula with the ink on it and put down the ink on the metal plate, and then I took the ink roller
and spread the ink to make sure I had a consistence layer to put over the block print plate.
22. Next, I took the ink roller and spread ink that is on it on the block print plate.
23. Then I took the print paper and put it down slowly and careful over the block print plate to make sure the
image doesn't move.
24. While the paper is on top of the block print plate I take the barren and create pressure on top and all over the paper
to make sure the ink gets to all the places that I carve on the block print plate.
25. Then I put away the barren and then I take off the print paper carefully to make sure I don't ruin the print.
26. Then I put the copy on a safe were the paper can dry and the print is safe from being damage.
27. I wash and put away all the tools that I just use to create my final piece.
2. Later I went into the computer and look up different examples and be a little bit more familiar with the
process of creating that type of art and his meaning behind it.
3. Then I took my sketch book and began writing different ideas that could lead to different ways of how
I could put together my ideas and the thoughts that I had in my mind to get to the sketch develop.
4. Then I got an idea to add flowers to my piece so then I tried to create an sketch with the flowers.
5. Later I research different styles and ways to develop an sketch of a flower.
6. By the research I did, I found my artist inspiration because of how this artist apply different types of
flowers into her at work so then I decide to choose Georgia O'Keeffe.
7. Then I choose to add to my sketch two different types of flowers, one in a healthy stage and one in
non-healthy stage, represent the judgement feeling that wanted to transmit through my drawing.
8. Then at the same time I wanted to incorporate like kind of a object that could symbolize or represent the
the judgement over the flower (person).
9. Later I tried to incorporate a hand as that object, at first I put it under the flowers but then for me it didn't
represent as much. So then I changed and put the hand on the top of the flowers.
10. Then I got my final parts to create my final drawing on the block print paper.
11. On the block print paper, On the top part of the paper I draw the hand as like the hand was going down and
trying to grab the prettier flower.
12. On the middle part of the paper I draw two different types of flowers, one with her petals open and in a really
happy healthier environment and a second one with close pedals and in a really sad not healthy environment.
13. After having done the drawing of my idea on the block print paper, I pick up the different carving tools to help
me carve and shape the image on the paper.
14. I began carving the image on the block print paper.
15. After carving the pictures that I had on the block print plate I wasn't content with the results, so the I added
other detail to my image. The details that I add were short and long lines lines on the side were the happy and
healthier flower was, to keep a lighter side to it and to the sad and unhealthier flower I use lived like it was, a
darker side.
16. Then I went and take with me the block print plate that was all carve in and finish to the other stage, printed
on a printing paper.
17. First I put my block print paper on top of a piece of paper of newspaper to make sure it is protected.
18. Later I took out the bottle of the ink that I am going to use, to print the image of the block print plate to the
print paper.
19. Then I took out a metal plate, an ink roller, and a spatula.
20. I put down the metal plate on the table that I am going to work and then I take the bottle containing the ink.
Later with the spatula I put out the necessary amount to print my piece.
21. Later I took the spatula with the ink on it and put down the ink on the metal plate, and then I took the ink roller
and spread the ink to make sure I had a consistence layer to put over the block print plate.
22. Next, I took the ink roller and spread ink that is on it on the block print plate.
23. Then I took the print paper and put it down slowly and careful over the block print plate to make sure the
image doesn't move.
24. While the paper is on top of the block print plate I take the barren and create pressure on top and all over the paper
to make sure the ink gets to all the places that I carve on the block print plate.
25. Then I put away the barren and then I take off the print paper carefully to make sure I don't ruin the print.
26. Then I put the copy on a safe were the paper can dry and the print is safe from being damage.
27. I wash and put away all the tools that I just use to create my final piece.
Challenges and Advantages
Challenges:
While I was doing the block print, I experience challenges throughout the development of the piece. The challenges that I went through were; the first one was that I really didn't have an idea of want I wanted to on the piece. Also I the beginning I didn't even had an artist to relate to what I wanted to do. The second challenge that I went through was that while I was drawing again the sketches that I had on my sketchbook to the block print paper it was kind of hard to figure out the way the fingers and part of the hand would look like. While I was drawing the hand I had a difficult time to make sure what I was seeing would be what I wanted to add to my piece. The third that I went through was the carving on the block print because it was really hard to develop straight or curve lines with the carving tools. As well I needed to use a lot of strength because some of the spots on the block print paper were pretty hard to carve in. On the carving process, I manage to cut myself with one of the carving tools and it hurt a lot. However, in some parts of my piece I did change my mind so I change some of the things and make new details on the piece because I didn't like some parts and I wanted to add more to it because I wasn't please with some of the things that I was looking at in the piece until I develop the final piece for the block print. |
Advantages:
During the process of the block print, I develop and experience advantages through my piece. The first advantage that I had on the block print was that I could create something that would have a lot of detail and I could use my own ideas to created. Also the first sketches that I made were something that particularly I wasn't going for but at the end I liked how they came out like and their meaning behind it. The second advantage that I had on the block print was the way i could create an sketch just by looking at something, because at class I was having trouble coming up with a new position to make the hand seem to have on my sketches, and my art teacher, Mr. Chad help me out by giving me an arm and a hand of a mannequin to work with and make sure I used to develop the position that I wanted the hand to have. So I manage to move the finger and the part of the hand that I wanted to see, and them I just draw what I saw and then I came out with my final sketch. My first advantage on this piece was that I was able to create the curves that I wanted to see and have on the flowers, while I was carving with the carving tools that I was using. The way that each flower reflect something different and had a different type of design on it make me to liked more the way the piece end it up looking. The final advantage that I had was that I was able to develop a grate copy at the end and I didn't have to do other copies or carve in more on my piece. |
THE MEANING BEHIND MY PIECE
This block print piece demonstrates the way how many people around us feel like to be judge by just being who they are. This piece shows how wonderful a person can act in front of others and how deteriorated they are inside, how degenerated they become by time but they just keep it to themselves. In a way I can identify myself with this piece because I can demonstrate and apply many of the characteristics that a judge person has. Also by just showing how someone (the hand) has that much power to make us weak, in our inside we suffer (the deteriorated rose), but we just keep our head up and keep going with our lives (the healthy and prettier rose) because their are more important things that just comments that really don't have a grate value to keep them inside of us and think about them. In addition, I had to deal with judgement when I was to be able to be grate or had luck at doing something and others were not and then the judgement came, some of them really heart but I was always focus on what I was doing and I never pay attention to them as much, I just keep going, just as like it never happen, just letting myself know that my future wasn't in their hands they were in mine.
RESEARCH
- Georgia O´keeffe -Oriental Puppies
-(n.d.). Retrieved November 16, 2015, from http://www.georgiaokeeffe.net/images/paintings/oriental-poppies.jpg