In printmaking this week, I started working on a monotype. I have never done this process before but it is the closest you can get to painting with a printmaking process since each print will look totally different from the one before it. The monotype process I’m using is a reductive monotype. A reductive monotype is the process where you take a process color (Cyan, Magenta, or Yellow), roll it out on a plate, and then remove the areas you do not want to show that color. You start with the lightest color (yellow) and move to the medium (magenta) and then on to the darkest (cyan) to get your initial design. If you are familiar with commercial printing this process is essentially the art version of it. The cool part about this process is after doing the original three layers you can then doing additional layers of the process colors to experiment with more color interaction and get the final results you want. Below are some images of my works in progress.
For my digital works I created a podcast “The World as it Is”. This podcast parodies the right wing talk radio while also educating listeners on the scary things going on in the world today. I hope to possibly expand on this project in the future since podcasts are more of a series, but we need to see how this one goes before I decide on that. If you want to listen to it, I have it on my website as well as embedded from sound cloud below.
In Graphic Design this week, I completed my children’s book cover. This project was cool because it required us to think about a demographic that we wouldn’t usually make work for and make things that aren’t usually cute, cuter. I am finished with this project and I am happy enough with the way it turned out, and might end up turning it into an actual book (if only there were 30 hours in a day).
Finally, for my personal work, I created a couple of drawings. One is just a nice octopus drawing and the other is a more political drawing of a hand gun following the numerous mass shootings entitled Baby Killer. This piece describes how most of us are feeling following these attacks where children are senselessly murdered at school. Hopefully, this piece can help change some minds.
Also, check out how I have been updating my website with some of my more recent work.