Today was such a good day! I took my advice and I really went for it this week I just started etching without being too precious about how it was looking and without really having much of a plan and I’m so proud of the work I made.
I think they’re really interesting - I used the image of a hand just to put the object in some sort of context. I didn’t want to draw the whole radiator because the object of the exercise is to explore the object and I think including the whole radiator would take the focus away from what I’m actually investigating. The third print (far right), I feel works best because I think the first two just seem too much out of context - as though the radiator part is floating in mid air and as I don’t want to draw the whole radiator, using the black ink masks the white space and draws the focus back to the image.
I then tried to work into the image a bit more so I thought I would draw over the other image
The image is visually interesting, it fills the page and there is alot going on, not just in the centre of the page. I’m not entirely sure whether as a coherent image it works, does it communicate? It looks quite dizzy, quite confusing. Because of this, I think what would really look good would be to have the radiatior knob as the central focus and many hands twisting it, so almost what I have done here but with only one radiator part. This would really illustrate the function of the object. On Friday, I am going to set aside some time to go into the print room and churn out some more prints and imagery because I would really like to push this forward and maybe begin experimenting with mixed media and building up the image up from the initial print, looking at the qualities of the object - what it is made of and how it feels to hold it. This is my plan!
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