Collagraph...

Recently I made a collagraph as an experimentation of lines and dept.
I covered MDF with polli-filla, cardboard, strips of wallpaper and strips of paper. I pushed wires into the polli-filla to get lines and i also drew free hand onto it.

I talked to my tutor Mary who suggested I talk to Des about it and how to print it. So off I went to find him, and find him I did! Des suggested I come down to the print workshop the following day to see how to go about printing it.
At the workshop I was shown how to ink a collagraph which is done very differently to other types of printing. Des told me that the whole board itself would take over an hour and a half to ink and it might not work so I was sent to the materials store to get it cut up into 6 small pieces to make the process quicker.

 When I came back I inked up one of the pieces which unfortunately was an incredibly slow process.
Finally I had one inked and off I went to get Des. He had to use a presser and press is several times to get the print to come out. Because the collagraph was deep a lot of it wouldn't print so I was told not to print the rest of them and that the board itself was effective enough.
This is the print I was left with:

I really like this print and even though it doesn't really relate to my cats eyes it does give an effect of lines that aren't defined. 

Electrical Tape on a Wall... Exciting Stuff!

This was a project I did last week and the week before but because my memory card broke I'm only putting up pictures now.

First I put two A1 sheets together and stuck electrical tape vertically on it but as it progressed I started to put a slight curve and wiggle into the lines almost like an illusion. 

After that I put it on the wall outside my studio and continued to work with the tape on the wall continuing on the lines into a curve.

At the end of the curve I overlapped the tape to create texture and a contrast to the smooth lines. It ended with black tape meeting at a point. I did this to create the idea that the tape had faded and was lifeless, something filled with movement, illusion, colour and line was now dead and ordinary. 

The overall piece: 

I loved making this piece! Its based off the pictures I took on the motorway of the blurred cats eyes.. how the lines go from straight and smooth, to curving, to overlapping and tension and then to fade into the distance.