Welcome! This blog site is dedicated to your summer printmaking course, "A Sense of Place." Here you will find the syllabus, online printmaking resources, links, and documentation throughout the course.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Sound, What I Remember

This is my favorite piece from the week. I love the depth, movement and value of colors.

Gallery Wall, Natalie

Natalie. Gallery Wall.

6th sense, Natalie

TITLE: The 6th Sense, Love.
Natalie Davis

Prior to the two week summer session course, I didn't produce a single piece of art work for 3 months. I'm a high school art teacher and I'm constantly helping my students with their own art work and I find it hard to get away and produce my own work. Not to mention; ALL of my creative juice is sucked out of my body by 3:00pm everyday so the last thing I wanted to do is create art work. The two weeks I spent at UF producing work was extremely therapeutic to me. I feel as if I "got my passion back". I feel more "complete" as a person and as a art educator. I LOVE making art and it is crucial to my existence.

Therefore, my final piece for the course is my interpretation of the 6th sense: LOVE.

Love has many different components to it. I decided to use 4 mini templates and have each mini template describe a feeling that I have experienced from LOVE. (1st image below)The top left plate is: Frustration. Top right plate is: Bliss. Bottom left plate is: Passion and the bottom right plate is: Confusion.

This is a 11X14 template.
I have used tin foil, tape, gauze, joint compound and plastic.
I used a black flat (with texture) as the initial base
Setting up my 4 color plates to register on top of the black flat.
The end result was created by taking my 4 color plates outside and running over the template with my car.... LOL hey, how else to you create a "at-home printing press".

Monday, August 9, 2010

6th Sense

My kitten helped me photograph the work... Thanks, Keeper!


I got confused about the due date on this one... but better late than never, as I always say! ;)

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Gallery


This is a sampling of the prints I made during the class. Thanks, Mary Gwyn for taking the picture. Thanks everyone for a great class!

Sixth Sense


For this print, I used a process I was successful with during the class in which I would only work on a small part of the plate at a time making tiny collages, then connecting them all to make one composition. Then I covered the whole plate with packing tape. I was very disappointed though because the print did not come out as good as the plate looked. I don't think I was able to make the appropriate amount of force for the print to come out the way I wanted.