Well better late posting it than never. I finished the dream book a while ago but have just got around to uploading it. Here are some images from the book.
Category Archives: Dream project
alligator in the closet
Well, my next set of prints I think went better. I have a couple of them to show. the plate that I made with photopolymer then the prints from the plate. I am using hand printing on these because of the transparency paper is delicate and it is also hard to work with the ink sit on top of the paper so have to be very careful about laying it down or it will smear on the paper.
- 4. I will conquer the world
- 3. plate conquer the world
- 2. Gator in the closet
- 1. plate of gator
As far as how these dreams go. Well it is the classic dream I had when i was little about there being gators in the closet so we had to keep the door open. The next one is from a computer game that I played growing up and of course if you did everything right you can conquer the world.
making first print for dream book
Well, I started working on my first plate. I am going to do a lot of these prints with a photopolymer printing method. So I have worked on creating my first prints.
Well my first two plates, they didn’t work out as well as I expected because I forgot to inverse out the image as is done with photopolymer printing and my plates are the opposite of what I thought they would be. Oh well it was just a test to see if I remember how and I guess I didn’t.
- 2. Red velvet dog print on transparent paper
- 1. redvelvet dog plate
book cover wrap…
well the book cover wrapping didn’t work as well as I thought….I didn’t really like it…. I did like how the book opens up to show the book so I think I will keep this format and maybe make a cloth cover for it…I will see.
- 3. Japanese paper with rectangular design
- 2. Book Cover box with copper plate prints on top
- 1. book cover box
cover for dream book
Well I started on my thesis project because well that is kinda important for my last year at school 😛 yeah I know. and well the show is in April so I better get started….
So my thesis is on Hybrid Art which is just the mixing of traditional methods and process with new technology. My work primarily deals with working in the adobe suits and traditional printmaking methods.
I started working on my book cover for my choose your own dream book and so wanted to wrap the cover of the book with some copper plate prints that I etched. So I made 2 different copper plate etches one that had a circular pattern and one that had a more rectangle pattern. I have printed these on Japanese paper, and I am going to wrap the cover of my book with the prints. The cover of the book will be more like a box because my book will be a book that binds on 4 sides, and you can have a choice to turn 1 of 4 different pages. So we will see how it goes.
- Close up of rectangular design print
- Circular pattern prints, with a combination of colors on one plate
- prints drying