The brief was titled "defining our space". It was one of the most enjoyable briefs to work with so far. We were told to consider how a space might change our environment. I decided to go with the view from my house which is a dense coniferous forest. A space which I really like to go for walks in. Recently they have started to cut down the trees, so much so that the forest is sadly now very bare and the logs sit there piled up . This changed my surrounding space a lot and that is why I chose to go with this idea.
I took some pictures of the piles of logs and used these to help me make an etching. I then did mono printing with layers of a cream, orange and browm so that it wasn't a really flat colour. I tried out a few varieties of this to see what worked and what didn't.
This was the forest before all the trees were cut down.. This is a mono print. I did a few of these with different browns and added a transparent black in some to give the trees a bit more dept.
This was just an experiment to see what a plain flat colour would look like.
For this print I tried to make it look a bit more eerie, i used both beige and blue for an evening sky and black trees.
This was where i layered an ethching on top of the mono prints.
I tries the ethching a few different ways with different colours but i think the mono prints on their own are stronger.
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