Point of View Progress work

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Honestly, even though i tried the various monoprints I still had zero idea about what or how I should proceed on with my project.

I liked some of the ideas and the image of the edited monoprints but it still looks incomplete and there was a missing piece that i have no idea how to fill it in.

However as I was looking back on my initial ideas on wanting to cover the different parts of the birds and just so happened that i came across this absolutely wonderful image on google.

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This picture is so aesthetically pleasing that it sparked me into knowing what direction i want for this project. Boldly scrapping my monoprint idea, i knew that i wanted watercolour. However, I didn’t want to make it a loose watercolourpiece, i wantedmore defination. So I decided to try a style of watercolour painting/ illustration method that i never tried before.

Overall plan for my boards:

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  1. Wing/ Feathers
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Style test that decides all of my panels!

It was the first one that i started with and i forgot to take pictures right after the sketch

I specially made sure that each of the feathers are inked with different patterns, just like on a real bird, which fit perfectly of what i was trying to convey about the different baggage.

 

2. The cycle of time

i was very much influenced by this image of yosuzume

 

This was really a fun piece for me to do! Its a very different style and composition that i would usually do. This is a first for me! I really love how it worked out.

 

By this stage, I loved the green and blue backgrounds and I knew that i wanted to make it a series as such.

I made the close ups/certain parts of the birds spotting a green background while the far away birds to have the blue background.

3. Flight/adventure

I was always mesmerised by how birds fly in a huge flock and they never seem to get lost

4. Wings!

5. Head= which represents a portrait/reflection.

Just like the monoprinted bird head, I realised that it somehow feels like a self portraiture.

I wanted to add this in, to have a beginning for my set.

Having fun adding colours to my supposingly dark bird ww

6. At last finally!

Humming bird and dance in the sky

Final Lines work-in-progress 2

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These are some of the monoprint materials leftover that i used. Thought they would make interesting lines and variation too.

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I love the gaps that were created inbetween

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They were messy if it was place as the lines directly. I scaned them in and the lines look wonderful

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trying out to see if i can collage in the kitchen towels into the shapes

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I also tried cutting out the kitchen towels in pieces to collage them into a line

 

 

 

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This is the piece of plastic that i used as a base for the monoprinting ink. And i thought why not? let me make something with this too. So i crushed the plastic and did scratching and swirls on it. The result wasnt as good as i predicted it might be, but it was a good experiment

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And of course, i will need to print it on paper. it was printed without any rollers, I simply used my hands to press the ink down

While i was placing the lines, i also suddenly had an idea of scratching the paper with a needle.

 

 

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It was on a small piece of paper as i wasnt sure how it would turn out

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and i decided to try it on a full A3 size paper. The marks above were made when the paint is not completely dry, I liked that effect better compared to the ones that were made after the paper dried completely (bottom)

 

Referencing is really important: Precision vs Energy?

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Up Next is Peter Foucault! Thin lines, Collage (i need to this this), robot drawings, somewhat probably inspired by Jackson Pollock too?

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My Take:

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These are created with swinging of the dust wiping brush with chinese calligraphy ink!

 

 

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Several more tries.

 

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All these are inspired by the robot drawings by Peter

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The sense of direction and the aggressiveness from the brush strokes

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The ink blots are left by having the ink on the previous pages passed through. They are joined up like “connect the dots” with the glass deco liner

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Marks are created randomly with splatters and a wooden stick dipped in ink. Combination of Sol LeWitt and Peter?

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Surprising Monoprint that created surprising results~

Peter Foucault’s works are a mix of precision vs energy. There is a sense of wildness u see in Pollock’s work and yet the details in LeWitt’s works. He is really an interesting artist i want to know more about. It helped alot in my

I really had fun during these creation. It was a mix of “wanting to know what you want to do” and “be bold and forget about whatever restrictions”.

Early Monoprints and automated techniques

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Monoprinting when i didnt have any reference artists in mind. Just doing whatever that came to mind.

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This was very interesting as this print is actually created by wiping the glass table with ink on it. As I realised that it actually creates interesting visual texture, i decided to swirl it to create a sense of direction/movement

 

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With the link on the table(again) i decided to dilute it with water at certain areas and added some paint. I also used the spray bottle(sprayed on table) before gently pressing my paper on top

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Another attempt at table wiping, those strong lines at the end are actually…… (fingers)

 

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This idea was actually created by twisting and twirling kitchen towels and pressing them using the machine (inspired by Lipeng’s prints). I really like the mini textured lines that was printed too. And of course, i did not throw the kitchen towels away! They are valuable and they are printed with ink too!

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Masking tape creates great block out~ and very clear negative spaces

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reprinting of the same tissues?paper?

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I used the roller and pressed some ink on one side of the paper. Was thinking of trying out Rorschach Technique, folded the paper into half and this was what it created. It didnt have the same value because the ink has already been half dried? I suppose i will need a wet ink to create that

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usually we will only think of using pencil with brass rubbing techinique, however i had this checkered cloth, and was wondering if it will work with ink too? And indeed it did!

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This was probably done with tea leaves~

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I was just drawing and splashing ink on the plate itself directly

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The papers used here came really useful during my creation of lines XD

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SPLATTER!! and letting ink drip. One of the more natural way to see how ink flows~ It kinda look like a giraffe with a tree isnt it ww

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FUMAGE ON PAPER TOWEL! it was easier to get marks on here..maybe because its thinner? however it is easier to “brown” the surface too

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FUMAGEEE on drawing paper. I really like doing this ^^

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Fumage on chinese rice paper. Due to the super thin paper, it got burnt easily

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Strings and ink. look at those furry ends. i love them

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Reprint with clearer details

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Mini Flowers?ww

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The patterns created by this fern is really unique <3

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They look like they are drawn by a almost dried flat tip marker

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double print on one surface~loved that “shadow”/depth effect created with each tape

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This was another one created with spraying and “cleaning” the table

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Rolling the roller multiple times on different paper creates a different texture

This is a gallery of automated techniques and monoprints that i did earlier! As they are all in A3 size, i wont be able to put much of the original prints in my sketchbook and it would be a waste to not document these.