One more experiment with Silkscreen.

Collaging onto the whites of the hands would be an interesting idea. 

I had an image of my Grandads hands that I had on my silkscreen and I couldn't leave it there without doing something with it. I wanted to have some pieces in my project that were abstract. I continuously printed the image on the paper moving it slightly to the lest each time to get a moving effect. I chose to use black and white as they are strong, solid colors. 

New Prints

Experimenting with color. 

Here I experimented by printing on a long sheet of Fabriano Paper. I like the effect of the different pinks and lilacs gradually fading down the paper. 

Photographs

I chose both black and white and color photographs for display. I wanted to show our attention is drawn to different aspects of a photograph based on color, lighting and shadow. The black background helps the subjects stand out. These pictures will be displayed on a board on my desk on assessment day.

1st set of PRINTS

This is my initial print. Sugar lift is made by painting on the surface of the plate with a brush dipped in a solution made of sugar and water (or what I did was screen-print onto the plate using the sugar solution) The sugar solution must be removed, or lifted, before the plate goes in the acid. After the sugar lifts, the printer applies an aquatint, and the acid bites into the portions that were drawn by the artist with the sugar solution. Using sugar resulted in some darker areas because some of the sugar did not lift as expected. I resolved this by pouring cold water over the plate.  

Here you can see the difference between the two. The first image on the left has darker spots of ink which was caused by small pieces of sugar that was not washed off the plate. Pouring cold water over the plate resulted in the remanding sugar lifting and allowing the ink not to clog up on the plate. As you can see in the image on the right it is a much neater and even tone. 

I wanted to experiment with color so I chose lilac ink. The end result was not as true to color as I would have liked, paler and lighter than it is in nature. 

Looked at closely, you can clearly see the shading created by the sugar-lift. 

Using sugar also changed the texture of the print. When you rub your hand along the image you can feel texture where areas have risen.

I tried experimenting by screen printing the sugar lift on to card-paper. These are the results. I really like the detail on the print. The sugar-lift screen-printed on to paper gives an interesting effect. 

SUGAR-LIFT

To help me translate my photographs to print, I used a process called sugar-lift aquatint (sugar-lift). It is a form similar to etching, achieved by painting a syrupy solution of sugar onto a copper plate and then coating it in a liquid etching ground. When the plate dries it is placed in hot water, the sugar dissolves and lifts off, leaving the image to be etched. The initial image is created by the form of the sugar.

This is an example of the finished product using the sugar-lift and acid. To create the larger indents I left the plate in acid for 20 minutes, 3 minutes 30 second for the medium indents and 30 seconds for the smaller ones.

My plan of action....

My own Photographs

These are just a handful of the hundreds of pictures I captured in the past few weeks. The clarity of the photographs is a result of good lighting and placement. They were taken with a Cannon Rebel Xsi. The pictures shown are of my mom's hands, my dad's hands, my own hands and my 2 small cousins Ella and Evan.

These are just a handful of pictures that I have taken. I have taken hundreds throughout the last few weeks which I have displayed in a portfolio case. 

I have also changed some of the pictures into black and white. 

The pictures shown are of my mom's hands, my dad's hands, my own hands and my 2 small cousins Ella and Evan.