1 monoprints
From week 10 – 13 you will be introduced to simple monoprint and simple ‘etching’ techniques and explore how these processes introduce new dimensions to spatial drawings.
Traditionally Interior instrumental drawings are crafted with line and rendered with tone. Use of line privileges edges, junctions, structure. Line has been developed and extended to include coded information particular to Interior and Architecture… these include the ‘cut’ (plan & section), construction information, codes for materials and other symbols.
Monoprints are almost the opposite of instrumental drawing. Their inky smudginess defies clear edges or line. The image is created through subtraction: removal of ink; removal of darkness; absense. Space is thus rendered in a shadowy fluidity of darkness and light.
Each image captures the immediacy, chance and ‘luck’ of a ‘one-off’ print created in one sitting.
2 printing-making space-making
While exploring these print making techniques carefully consider the way this media effects the spaces you are communicating:
What spatial qualities does monoprinting bring to your drawings?
How can these spatial qualities and the printing technique transform the space itself? (lend materiality, texture, form/ formlessness).
How does monoprinting challenge conventional representation of space?
3 process
Choose your most interesting or successful drawing from the previous ‘Every drawing is an object’ brief.
Extend this drawing through a series of exploratory monoprints. Investigating the following spatial issues:
atmosphere, light & dark, shadow, materiality, inhabitation.
Explore and experiment with the printmaking process.
This may include: materials/papers to print onto; multiple prints on one image; using found materials and textures in the printing process; printing onto drawings, watercolours, prints; use of other hand media; alternative materials for printing plates….
Exploratory prints will be compiled into an archive.
Develop and select a final series of prints. Consider how these work as a set. What does each image communicate and how do these contribute an overall understanding of your space?
In this brief you will:
• generate a broad series of exploratory prints to be complied in an archive.
• experiment with monoprinting techniques and their possibilities for generating new ideas of space.
• critically engage with and analyse the spatial possibilities of your prints/drawings.
• assemble a final series of prints that communicates your space. This series will be carefully considered in terms of: composition (for individual drawings & the series), white space & tonal balance, size, scale, proportion, paper (or other surfaces).
HAND IN
• Final hand-in and assessment of the years work:
Monday 12 November 9.30am.
ASSESSMENT CRITERIA FOR 7302IN Drawing:
drawing media & process skills 33.3%
critical evaluation skills 33.3%
communication through drawing 33.3%
