Using this piece of styrofoam i created a series of prints inspired by my "Runaway" painting. Zooming in on one orange scraped paint and its black edges, i drew out lines similar to a flickering flame of a fire. Using the same colour i spread the orange and yellow colours on the styrofoam using a roller, letting the colours mix like i did when scraping the paint. Then i rolled the black ink around the edges and pressed the styrofoam to white cartridge paper. Using the roller to press down the print with even pressure.
I quite like how my first one turned out. The colours are bright and bold, along with the lines that are vivid amongst all the colours. the inks markings on the paper as the colours overlaps also create distinct markings that would be difficult to recreate. The yellow and orange mix together fluently whilst the black is striking with its lines just like the "Runaway" painting turned out when scraping the paint on the page. I love the way the ink interacts with the page, leaving white, faded marks. It looks rough just like the rusted roof but the colours are brighter and transcendent which makes me think of a wild, warm fire.
I should of tried doing a more controlled practice to try recreate the image i had zoomed in on for comparison. Therefore the black ink should be more around the thick white lines that i drew on the styrofoam.
My next try i decided to add a piece of rope i found lying around. I placed it between the paper and styrofoam to block the colours. I didn't know what to expect as an outcome but this one was really a success. the rope left a strong white lines that crossed over and looped. I think this turn out is a closer look to the white lines than the first one which focused on how the ink interacted with one another. I think i should try this type of printing with other materials like string, rope and thin pieces of tissue paper. I could create amore controlled image with the rope so the lines are bold like pop art. |Also see how the ink seeps through the tissue paper and how that restraint affects the outcome.
For the last two tries i changed to black paper to see the difference the ink has on darker colours. I also decided to use blue ink on one half of the styrofoam which created green as it mixed with the orange. The outcome is a lot duller, the yellow and orange is still quite bold in one section; you can still see the print lines vividly on the black paper. The change of colours creates a different feeling when viewing this. Instead of warmth and powerful like fire its more calm and cold without permission as if the coldness is taking out the warmth like the blue challenges the orange. The lines also look less controlled and more like scribbles due to the colours being out of place. It shows a sort of frenzy occurring as the colours alter each other.
My last one is not a print. I rolled out some blue paint on the black paper and decided to recreate the print lines using the rope from earlier. The rope had some orange ink on from the styrofoam so all the same colours were included. I think this piece shows how art can develop and change massively through changing and taking out certain mediums. I've still used the same elements as before just took out the print itself. I think i would've preferred if the side of the rope with the ink on showed up more but it was hard to control when gluing down. Also i think i needed to add some yellow to create some green and make the blue a little brighter so it would be bolder.
For this last piece, i rolled out some of the blue ink on some yellow tissue paper. The markinmsg were quite interesting as the tissue paper was folded indents creating lines where the ink did not meet. I decided to stick down the tissue paper ink said down to see how the ink seeped through the paper, from the point i made earlier. Before that happened the blue ink marked the page and i decided to outline some lines which i found repeated the lines that the rope made on the prints. The ink pen i used came out quite bold when it was on the yellow tissue paper. This piece is a simpler version of the prints above, it looks abre and stripped.
The styrofoam is its own individual version, this print was made when i closed my sketchbook on the styrofoam. Some newspaper stuck to both pieces when i tried to separate them. This one has all the colours from the inks and is a lot ore faded from use. Some lines are still bold but more lost as more white seeps through the ink.The border also becomes lost as when the styrofoam wasn't stuck down it moved creating lighter edge markings. It looks the most rough from reuse and no protection, as the styrofoam began to break apart.
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