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Printmaking

Besides two printmaking projects in high school  second year was the first time I took a printmaking class. I have decided to continue with it into my third year, mostly because printmaking me challenges me in ways that other mediums do not. It requires me to think in an entirely different way. So often with drawing and painting I start off with a general idea and let the work take on a life of it's own, changing in the process of being made with quick instinctive decision making. Printmaking has an element to that as well, for example when I hammered, scraped, and stabbed my board to make an background texture for my ladder pieces, but there is incredible importance on preplanning each layer in order to end up with the most successful piece. In photography there is an element of chance that comes in discovering the shot and the magic of discovering it again later in the darkroom. But printmaking challenges me to organize my time and plan, to see an end goal and achieve it (or fail and learn from my mistakes). It forces me to form a clearer images and concepts before I even start my process. By the end of whatever I'm working on, I'm usually exhausted and frustrated with what I have made... or too tired after the whirlwind to even consider the artwork (even if it turned out exactly as planned). But then you see it again at a later date, after you get the chance to recuperate, and you realize that you are so proud of what you created, and moreso you are proud of the effort that you put into it. This is why I encourage artists to do what challenges them, and even what scares them, because it will help you to think in a new way and bring a new energy to all of your artwork. 

Printmaking at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney

Project - Germination Linoprint 1/9

20 x 24

2013

Printmaking at the College of Fine Arts, Sydney

Project - Self Portrait 1/4

20 x 24

2013

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