Printmaking Reflection

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This week has felt very blurry to me, I think I’m coming down with a cold, but still I managed to push through, so here are three learnings out of the plenty I did make. In lecture I learned a way in which to take advantage of art snobber, during seminar I learned that doubt is impossible to avoid and in the printmaking studio with Lisa I learned how much I differ from traditional printmakers. In lecture on Monday, Lisa talked about the printmaker Warrington Colescott. While I enjoyed the print we looked at (The Last Judgement, 1987, Coloretching), after looking him up I found it wasn’t my favorite of his and that I am really drawn to Secretary Seward Buys Alaska (1973, color intaglio on paper) for its use of specks to create snow and minimal …show more content…

While I think the act of printmaking is interesting and I like the way you can make multiples of art I very much dislike the idea of trying to make a set number of identical prints when I find so much beauty in having a whole edition made up of slightly different yet similar pieces of art. In fact, I want to make a set of prints with the same plate with completely different registrations to show how a position on a piece of paper shows the artwork or a set where each time the plate has something new etched into it for every print. I enjoy the etching process and I enjoy working with my hands and with paper in a way I am unfamiliar with but it all feels so silly to me work so hard to create something that will end up being the same as others. Perhaps this is because my way of looking at art is different from Lisa’s… Perhaps this is because (as I’ve discovered) I don’t find printmaking to be something that I find I am passionate about. I enjoyed the monotype process, but I enjoyed it more when I got something different every time I ran a piece of plexiglass through the press. There is also the thought that past this course printmaking feels like a way of creating art which is very inaccessible to me. I crochet because yarn is cheap, I paint with watercolors because I received them as a gift or because I have a giftcard, and I draw in sketchbooks that only cost me five dollars. Printmaking, and intaglio in particular, goes so far out of what seems to me to be a reasonable amount to spend on an artform. All of that thinking said and done, I do think that I will want to revisit printmaking eventually because I enjoy the feel of copper and the creation of delicate lines, though I doubt Lisa would appreciate just how messy I would truly like to be in the studio

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