Developing Ideas for making your own Munch inspired print

Outline of what we did today:

We need to get something to make an art based image from, using mono-printing, that has some meaning to you.

We opened two tabs; Google images search and pixlr.com.
Searching for images under labelled for reuse is very important. It means you aren't stealing an image and you are showing respect.




- Why is it important to use work labelled for re-use?
- Who did you choose and why?


When you open www.pixlr.com, you will get a screen that gives you some options to download files. Sign up to pixlr using your school email and password so you don't forget them.

1) Web-based apps
2) Pixlr editor (not express)
3) Play and experiment with the image to change the colours, warp the form and stylise it. You should be thinking along the lines of Edvard Munch and his forms he uses.

MONO print

Mono = one
print = copy

This is the definition google retrieved for me when I asked 'what is a monoprint?'

It is pretty similar in explaining what we have been doing in class with year 8. We use thin perspex rather than glass or metal.

 

 

These ones are the teacher exemplars of what we are working towards.

We are using an 'additive' mono-print technique. That means we add to the plate with colour and texture before printing.

A 'subtractive' mono-print method means we put colour on and subtract it with making marks and textures before printing it.

There are 3 key steps in making your plate:
1) Apply the base thinly and let it dry a bit before you put the colour on
2) Apply the colour just like you would paint on paper. Mix, make paint marks and blend.
3) Let it dry

Following making your plate, we are going to go through hand printing a mono-print.

German Expressionism

By now we all should have seen this. It is here fi you want to go through it again, or you have deleted/lost the email link I sent you...

The research pages are looking really good and we are working towards some printmaking with mono-prints and possibly drypoint etching :-)