I grew a lot from doing this project. It took a lot of patience to print them the first time then with the two other colors. In all i think i printed over 40 times. If i could start again, as i stated in my revise and refine I would definitely have dug deeper in the chatter lines. Honestly i think i have met my goals for this piece because it came out how i wanted and it reflects off the meaning i was trying to get across. My biggest risk for this print would have to have been when i was carving. I had to be careful what i carved because i can always take more away but i cant glue back what has been already carved.
Based on the feedback that I received the chatter lines were showing up in my print and making it stupid. I agree the chatter did somewhat ruin my print. As you can see there is excessive chatter which clouds up my print and takes away from the meaning i want. I can simply fix this by removing the chatter lines by carving them out deeper. When i removed the chatter lines I see my piece as being very successful. It goes together perfectly and the chatter lines don't take your attention away from the print.
I grew the most because I have improved many of my artistic skills. I now have more patience with my artwork since doing this book was very time consuming. If i had the chance to restart i think i would change the font on the front cover the font is kind of hard to read. I don't think i have met my goals for this piece but SURPASSED my own personal expectations for my piece with the time and effort i put into this. My biggest risk would have to have been when I made the big deep square cut in the middle of the front cover. Once i made i hole i couldn't go back and it turned out to be one of the best parts of my book, so it was a success.
As Rachel critiqued my paper she noticed how on this certain page where i cut out a deep imprint of a bar bell the pages were not held to together and overall it looked sloppy and didn't make much sense to why it was like that. What I did after I got this information i simply put a couple of pieces of tape behind the first page so it could hold on to the previously taped pages. I think my whole book is successful right now every single one of my pages goes along with each other and they all together help reflect the meaning of my project.
So far a lot of things are going very well for me in my piece. The directions of the carvings i made go very well with the direction of my piece. The image can be clearly seen which means i matted it and rubbed it perfectly, because i can see the four different color very easily which is making this very easy for me to do now. Honestly there isn't much that isn't working except for a few cuts being deeper than other, but that really isn't an issue. The only problem I've ran into would be carving precisely and not cutting myself in the process of doing it. I solved them both by carving more slowly to increase accuracy and carefully to reduce the risk of cutting myself. No i have not changed anything from my original plan and everything is going great so far.
I think they all showed major improvement to how I worked with printmaking and my overall artistic technique. The most difficult would had to have been the painted mono print. It was the most challenging becuase I don't really like painting directly on the plexi glass. The easiest would have to have been the jelly monoprint, I enjoyed the design I got from it and i did it very fast. These printmaking skills will make me a better artist becuase it will help me improve the different types of art I know how to make. The part that showed improvement the most with this packet would definitely be drawing the same pattern over and over to make a cool design. I think the part that I struggled with the most was getting the right design with all the lines I had to draw, because some of them played with my eye and made me mess up. The easiest part would have had to be going over the lines in color. This skill will help me become a better artist because it helps me understand patterns more and how they can become a great piece of artwork.
So far the colors are going very well to show off the meaning behind my book. I would say using a paint brush leaves streaks so I'm going to try another method to apply the paint. I've run into a few problems like not getting the right tone of color I wanted and I simply fixed this by saving the original paint I used and re using it later. I'm sticking with my plan and theme of "the journey of reaching your goals" because I know now what I want to do with it and how far I'm willing to go.
So far what's going well in my piece would have to be the theme I chose "The journey of reaching your goals". Thinking about how to make that theme into various pages is what I would say isn't really working. I've run into a few problems and that's deciding what to use to carve out the design for my front book cover. I'm going to solve this by using an exacto knife and making various cuts. Originally I wanted this book to be about football, but I'm going away from football always being my main point and I want to experiment and try different things and see what other deep meanings my artworks can represent without everything being about one thing I like.
I grew quite a bit from creating this piece, because I've never really worked with glossing paper and I think I've gotten really good at it since I made so many. If I could start again I would chosen to just stuck the plays in as paper because I wasted way too much time on glossing them. I think I met my own goals for the piece because I like how it turned out. The biggest risk I took was probably choosing what to do with the cut out of the plays. Glossing them or not would have changed the outcome. I mood and meaning my piece is trying to get at was a success because all the colors went together and I had a good choice of colors.
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