Dry Point.
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In the search of self identity there are passions and activities that you do in your life that shape you. When doing my digital collage, I took a lot of pictures of myself in my roller derby outfit. I knew I wanted my dry point to be myself so, I went through those photos and picked out one that I thought would look good scratched into a piece of plastic. Also, wanted to make sure my skated were in the picture. I decided this picture because it was a cute pose that kind of confines my body to a smaller size so it would all fit on the plastic nicely and you don't loss detail from my body because it's too far away. I printed out this picture of myself in black and white.
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I drew in the star in the back ground because In roller derby my position is the jammer. Jammers wear a helmet cover with a star on it to identify as the jammer. So apart of my identity is a jammer. Which relates to my block print piece. It was about how everything that a person does makes up the whole you.
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My inspiration is Kathe Kollwitz because of her german expressionist sketches and works. She has kind of rough pieces that use a lot of quick strokes and stratch like features. Her skteches made a bit impact on my dry point. You can see the connection in my quick stratch like strokes. My theme was obviously roller derby which, is something I care deeply about. So it was pretty easy to create this piece. It was pretty difficult to stratch onto the piece of plastic though. It was hard to be exact and neat with it. The tools were kind of big too so they were hard to handle. I am kind of a perfectionist so, it was making my kind of anxious not being able to make persise strokes and marks on my piece.
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http://spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Kollwitz_self_portraits.html
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Once I printed that out and drew on the star, I taped on my plastic sheet on top of my black and white picture. I began to crave into the plastic sheet. Carving into the sheet was definitely not as precise and I thought it would be. It was difficult to scratch in the perfect shape of curves. My hand was definitely difficult.
It is difficult to see but, this is my plastic sheet after scratching everything in. It didn't look very good just scratched in like this. But after applying the ink, it turned out pretty great. I first put two sheets of paper into the water to sit for 8 minutes. During that time, I applied ink to my plastic sheet. The first application, I knew I added too much ink because it took my a long time to wipe all the extra ink off of the sheet. The first print, I ended up cutting off my knees. So then to the second try, I added less ink and pressed it. It turned out pretty great. I was very happy with how it turned out.
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Reflection:
In the end I like how this piece turned out. It took me out of my comfort zone with the impossible way to make something neat and exact. The tools and the way of making this piece was pretty difficult though. The process of stratching into the plastic and doing multipe prints was a long process. So being a perfectionists and impacient person, this project wasn't really for me.
In the end I like how this piece turned out. It took me out of my comfort zone with the impossible way to make something neat and exact. The tools and the way of making this piece was pretty difficult though. The process of stratching into the plastic and doing multipe prints was a long process. So being a perfectionists and impacient person, this project wasn't really for me.