Final Drawing Work...

Exhibition

 

 

Engraving and Etching...

Engraving using engraving tools and pine

 

 Unlike when I have engraved before I found it quite easy to remove the wood. I enjoyed this technique although it does hurt your hand after a while!

One of my designs using a printing press and rubbing to create the relief print.

printing using the printing press, Mix of peoples printing blocks

Engraving 

For this technique I used a copper plate that had some text previously lazer cut onto it, I worked around this and using a tiny spike I etched in my design. In France both of these techniques are called engraving but in England we would call this technique etching. 

This technique was a lot easier to control than the engraving tools and a lot more detail can be created. 

Jour de feu Besançon...

Day of fire

 http://www.grandbesancon.info/actualite/culture/jour-du-feu-a-lisba-de-besancon/

a paper kiln was constructed and used to fire ceramic artefacts created in a workshop by the Greek artist Hector Mavridis.
Talking to the artist he explains that because of communication difficulties the kiln was not made perfectly and this was why it collapsed very quickly but it was still impressive to view.

There was also a performance piece where the artist asked two students to stand in the window very still and hold clay blocks, after there was a sacred burial of these blocks.
The art school

http://www.hectormavridis.com/

  



On display in the art gallery there was also work by the artist Gwilherm Courbet, which can be seen on the first video, I felt his work is an interesting take on positive and negative space.

 

This was a Festival inspired by fire and supported by artist, it was an evening of BBQ sausages and baked potatoes and plenty of Cote Du Rhone, an opportunity to bring artist together in the art school, talk to the artists and be inspired.

More Photography...

Developing and Exposing film

voila!

 Images created by scanning in the negatives and inverting, then slight editing on photo shop

2nd lesson

                                  This test piece is 6seconds, 14, 18, 24. on 16 appature.

Finished Photo of bike scenery 20 second exposure

 20 second exposure, River photo, and same photo on contrast paper increasing the contrast manually.
35 second exposure, this paper also has more of a mat finish, I prefer the higher contrast in this photo. 

 I will redevelop this print as the image came out with a few imperfections due to a lot of people using the baths at the same time. there are some marks in the sky area and a couple of flecks in the river due to the negative not being completely clean.

This was a test piece for the contrast paper for 7 seconds, the image was too light so I discarded it next to another piece of photo paper that was too dark, after it had only been in the 1st and 2nd bath. after 20 minutes the image started to discolour and 'burn' this was because it hadn't been in the fixer bath. I found this image interesting and I may look more into 'happy accidents' when developing film. As Gabby said 'If you don't respect the time needed in each bath and rinse the image after thoroughly, strange things can happen'

Double exposing an image, For this Image I used No. 3 paper again. 16appature and exposed each negative for 10 seconds.

I like this effect but I think it could be more interesting if one or both of the photos had used a wider appature. I want to try with f/4 instead of f/16






















I want to experiment with overlays of text and double exposing with these photos:

 

Overlays of text on tracing paper and patterned paper



Example of overlays.
 2.5 aperture
The overlay material was exposed for 10seconds 1st with no negative.  where there was no pattered paper a blank piece of paper was placed so stop the image becoming too dark.
Then negative was exposed over the top for 8 seconds.

Final 3 photos I want to develop to a high quality: