A single mark creates a dot. An extended mark becomes a line. A cluster of marks become a shape. A series of repetitive marks become a pattern. What is mark making? “Mark making is a term used to describe the different lines, patterns, and textures we create in a piece of art. It applies to any art material on any surface, not only paint on canvas or pencil on paper.” Mark Making Tools: Almost anything can become mark making tools Some interesting mark making tools found […]
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My Mark Making Journey: Not sure what to bring at first, so here was my tools. Marks I made with the tools Run of ideas, so I go around borrowing tools from others. After gathering more tools I tried to create meaning out of the marks I made. […]
My Story I want to tell a inspirational story with my linocut and I decide to base it on one of my favorite novel, “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway, which tells a story of old man and his battle with the sea. In my version, a young boy living by the sea chance upon a blue whale one day. Awe by the whale’s giant size, the boy decide to spend his life chasing after and catch the […]
Process My sketches for scene 2 Some fail print Final pieces
Getting my ideas for values I initially had a hard time to choose a suitable value for my poster. However, the issue is not that I do not have a good value in mind, but rather there is too many values that I want to convey and is having difficulty in picking one. Hence, I decide to do my research of other simple shape poster while looking for inspirations and a suitable values My Research I started with researching on simple […]
Process My inspiration came from the movie poster of UP. Initially I have something like this in mind. I replace the house with a brain. To portray a picture of the balloon carrying the brain above the cloud and hence the pun in my value “not cloud by others” However, I feel that the cloud is too bright and is diverting our attention away from the brain which […]