Printing Processes

Relief Printing Process

This technique can create very simple, or very complex designs. Cuts are made out of a surface, (wood, tile, etc.) and black ink is then applied to the raised surfaces. Paper is pressed onto the surface to ink it. Pressing originated from the hand, but now many artists use a baren, a handheld flat tool that distributes the pressure evenly onto the paper. This process can then be repeated many times. Different colors, cutting tools, and surfaces can change the finished designs that end up on the papers. 

Lithography Printing Process

This technique revolves around grease and water. A very responsive stone is the surface and various greasy pens and crayons are used to make a design on it. 

A complex combination of water and many other oils are used to make the art stay. It is inked up and then paper is pressed down on top in different ways to create the prints.

Intaglio Printing Process

There are a few different types of Intaglio prints, but they all involve scratching on metal. In one way, a tool is taken to a flat metal plate and some of the metal is etched or moved in certain patterns. Then ink can be put over the etchings and put on paper. Another way is done with soot and a black coat over the metal. The coating is etched away, and only the metal underneath shows. 

The process I would like to attempt is the Lithography print. It seems like it would be interesting and super satisfying to complete. 

ONW Procedures

In this project, my team and I portrayed eating procedures during Power 50. More specifically, not eating on the carpet. We started by brain storming ways to show this, and came up with me stepping over the line and being hit with an invisible wall. Story-boarding was tough but we got plenty of ideas in the end and stuck to our plan! We hit some road blocks filming, and actually had to re-shoot everything a day after because we didn't have enough run time and needed continuity. We were going to use more actors,  but were rushed on time so we only wanted three. Editing it was fun! And I think mine flows well. I edited it in one class period. I was the actor in this project, so I didn't spend a whole lot of time with the camera. I did edit my whole project however. I learned how to use an SD card with the new cameras. It's fun! Next time for this piece I would've used two cameras to get a better view of everything, and I also would've used some old footage that fits for more of a variety. (I would also not film on pj day ☺). I liked the mix of shot-types that we pulled off so I would do that again. I tried to add some color correction to this in post-production, but probably should've changed it in the camera at the beginning. 

Panorama Narrative

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         This panorama is representative of my trip to the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. I went over the summer in 2018. It was absolutely beautiful. We drove for about 8 hours from our lovely Olathe Ks, through Nashville and Knoxville and into a really cool cabin. The drive took a very long time but spending time just talking to my family was actually really fun! I even drove part of the way! Some roads were super cool to drive through, as they were cut right through rock. It was like driving through mountains but they were forests instead! After driving through countless small towns and even a few large ones, we finally made it to Pigeon Forge. It was a quaint little town, with a lot of shops, but where we were going was very reserved and away from everything else. We were going into the mountains!
        The drive to our cabin was super scary. The roads were thin and there were steep drops with no guard rails, but boy was it worth it! The two pictures merged on the right were both taken at our cabin, one looking west and one facing east, with the cabin in the shot. It was a really nice place with many rooms, a pool table, a few tv's, and a hot tub! Plus we got to see a bear while driving up so that was really cool/super freaky. I spent a lot of time just chilling in the warm, pleasurable hot tub overlooking the mountains. And when my family wasn't out being activity, we would sit near the fireplace and watch some spooky movies!!
      My favorite part of the trip had to be the hiking. my family loves hiking, and that's where all of the pictures on the left 2/3's of the panorama came from. My favorite hike was when we walked on the Appalachian Trial (AT) for a tiny amount. The waterfall hike was fun but nothing beat the killer views from a trail that stretches from Georgia to Maine. I got a lot of cool pictures from that hike in particular.

I did my best to merge all 9 pictures together, but there are some spots that are obviously pretty rough. I used the eraser tool with opacity and hardness down to blend them as best I could. For the picture of me walking, I just cut myself out and feathered the layer mask. My goal was to make this all look like one distinct picture, but it ended up looking like three. I'm still fairly happy with it!

Pop Art Project

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 For this pop art design, I started by giving myself a good canvas to work with. I found an image of a nice pink and blue background online, but to make it my own I added the hexagonal photoshop filter to the colors and I used the brush tool to give it a unique paint splatter design that I find nice to look at. The background may be a little busy but I think it fits the theme of the picture, and sort of resembles the colorful works of James Rosenquest. I didn't have a set color scheme necessarily, but I used many of them and made the product very colorful. The four squares were my attempt at a repeating theme. I used a multitude of different photoshop tools during this project, including adjustment layers and layer masks. The adjustment layers were helpful because it made sure that the many colors didn't clash too awkwardly together, and helped blend the buildings into the background. I added the bright layer around the subject to really make him "pop" out. (Haha. Get it? Because it's "pop" art. Classic) The biggest weakness in this project in my opinion is his face. I couldn't figure out a way to make it fit! Putting the filter on it lost all sense of it being a human, but leaving it as the original looked super awkward against the rest of the piece. I tried to settle for something in the middle but I still don't think it looks perfect. All in all I don't think this one is too bad!