Print: Project 5

 

Research:

To start the print project we were asked to create 20 sketches that related to the theme of 'monument.` For this I researched the words monument and monumental, as a result of this I started researching monumental events in history, and this led me to articles and images of the Berlin wall. These images were a mixture between old photographs taken at the time and more recent photograph of the wall today. today parts of the Berlin wall are spread all over the world in countries such as The UK, Jamaica, India and South Korea to name a few. This interested me as I have seen some of the pieces that are in England, and that have been repainted. (some of the pieces were repainted with things that represent freedom and peace in the countries that they are located, some have remained the same and there are a couple of pieces in the RAF museum that have been painted with facts and the history of the wall.) I thought that some of these images would make great prints.

 

Printing:

The image that I used to create my dry point print was an old photograph of the Berlin wall when it was still up and when people first started to protest on top of it. I really liked this image and thought that it would translate well as a print.

After I had done my prints I decided that I wanted to incorporate some images of how some of the pieces looked today, I decided that I would collage and paint over the top of some of the prints to make them look graffitied on, and to make them look more interesting. 

I think that my prints worked really well and I really enjoyed making them, as dry point is one of my favourite techniques. I feel that to develop these prints further I would like to created more and develop the graffiti idea by using actual spray paint and stencils to create the images over the top, instead to just normal acrylic paint, to make it feel more realistic and add a different kind of mark and texture.