Lino Prints

From a few selected images of my photography I am going to create a series of lino carvings of which I will print from and create some plaster casts. I am hoping the plaster will give me some really nice effects, however I don’t think I will get enough detail and texture from the carvings. I hope to actually go out and get the real casts of the cracks which will capture each and every nook and cranny. I have found an artist who uses the pages of maps and books to cover sculptural mediums. I think it would be great if I could use some of my photos that I have worked into with stitch and actually collage them onto the casts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Man Ray

Dada, surrealist movement, photographer,  painter, variety of media, distorted, division of space, geometric

Divisions of space, mirro/smashed effect, reflection, distortion, movement

 Mathematical object

Ori Gersht

Ori Gersht is a fine art photographer. He engages both themes of violence and beauty and his outcome is that of optical perception.

‘What’s beneath you?’

I am giving my work this title as I want to give more thought into ‘whats beneath you’ on the journeys we take, and if our journeys were a little more vibrant, would it be more memorable? I have been working in photoshop on some quick photographs I took walking home from college. I like how the camera didn’t fully focus and how it looks slightly distorted/stretched. I feel this effect shows the journey better as it highlights the movement. I have been inspired by Andy, a class mate who has been using photoshop to layer up stains, using the saturation setting he got some really cool effects. I thought to incorporate my geometric shapes that have been present throughout all of my work, also inspired by Jelle Martens who uses photography and block colour.

My starting photograph

On the photo below, I feel the subtle colour change works well. I love that each triangle has a different pixilated colour effect. I feel the yellow is most vibrant an reminds me of road markings such as double yellow lines. If on your journey home/or too somewhere looked like this, I feel it would be more memorable or it would be appreciated/taken more notice of.

As I liked the vibrancy of the yellow in the above photo, I wanted to see how it looked being in all triangles. I think the composition works well. Yet wish that I had made the background black and white so that the original colour had been adjusted.

 As the yellow reminded me of the double yellow road markings in the top photo, I decided to double the colour up. This now looks more distorted and makes the eyes literally look like they’re seeing double. I also adjusted the background colour into black and white.I feel it works much better as the contrast is more noticeable. 

Using a similar photo, I cropped a section out. Adjusted the colour to black and white and chopped geometrics out of it. The blue has been inspired by my previous work. I used a mirror repeat of the background and Again inspired by Andy’s layering I overlapped the triangles to create this effect.

I thought that it might be interesting to use a photograph of a more three dimensional quality to see how adding the triangular colour would work. I used a photo I took in manchester of very sharp shaped buildings.

Tutorial/Feedback

In response to my photoshopped images of landscapes merged together using geometric shapes.

Look at:

• Light refraction
• Divisions of space
• The golden section
• Collide-scope
• Smashed Mirrors reflecting landscape

Artists/Influences:

• Ori Gersht
• Man Ray
• Daniel Libeskind