Lino Prints

During a particularly stressful week last semester I decided to take some time out and have a go at doing some lino prints using oil based inks, just to give myself a break from thinking about projects. I loved using lino but hadn't done it for a while and wanted to see how much better an effect oil-based rather than water-based ink would give me. I didn't plan the image just cut a pattern into the lino and played about with double-printing which gave such a good effect! Definitely going to have a go with more lino stuff this semester as I love the direct simplicity of the technique.

Magnolia/Manifesto Project

My second last project for Illustration was called Magnolia/Manifesto. We were each given a Dulux colour sample to explore - I got "pocketful of posies", a sort of dark pink, which isn't really a colour I'm that interested in.

Nonetheless I played about with the colour a bit looking at complementing and contrasting it as well as looking at the connotations of bright pink. I then decided to look at the name of the colour which relates to the bubonic plague.

For the next stage of the project we got paired up with second years - I was paired with a guy called James who had a nice blue colour. We were tasked to produce a manifesto relating to the two colours and the research we had been doing individually which was quite a bizarre task which we didn't know how to approach.

He had been drawing whales, so we decided to combine my drawings of rats with his whale drawings and make the manifesto a peace treaty between whales and rats...

We thought about how each animal would write and decided that rats would have very scratchy letters whereas whales would write in long flowing lines. I combined everything in a two-colour screenprint with the whale and rat forming a sort of ying yang type shape which I then stuck up in "rat" locations around the art school.