Q4 Art Slideshow

For this quarter we focused on creating drawings using the 7 elements of art and different mediums.
The thumbnail figure sketches were drawn on newsprint with sharpie while the final figure drawing was made on newsprint with pencil. I wanted to challenge myself with this assignment as I have a bit of experience with figure drawing, so I used a contortionist for my reference.
The first two line drawings were more figure sketches of classmates made with pencil and sketchbook paper. The continuous line still life was made with sharpie on sketchbook paper under a time constraint of five minutes.
I have very little experience with digital art but I didn't want to just make a few basic patterns, so I made this odd pop-art-esque rift full of eyes. I used a layering tool and bright contrasting colors to create some depth.
For the illusion of space drawing I took a sketch of a leviathan from my sketchbook, gave it a few touch-ups, and created a shaded background for it to blend into. The goal was to make it look as if it was swimming out from the gloom. The drawing was made with pencil on sketchbook paper.
The texture drawing was rather tricky. I used colored pencils and tried to apply different amounts of pressure to try and give some depth to items in the still life. The required textures didn't exactly lend themselves all that well to tomatoes and green beans and there were more textures than indevidual objects, so I ended up applying individual textures to individual artichoke segments.
The value drawing was made using charcoal on newsprint. For my reference, I posed a stuffed bat with a few pieces of fabric and tried to capture the different values created by the folds in the fabric.
The elements of art drawing was made using pencil for the base lineart, gone over with inking pens, and colored with a single magenta colored pencil. I wanted to use high-contrast colors and shading to give the character as much presence as possible.

Quarter 4 Artist Statement Naima DeBrest


I have really enjoyed having the opportunity to be in advanced art this year. Throughout the quarters we have worked on various piece to showcase our talents. This quarter I really liked the fact that we focused on techniques that made up our art pieces. We worked on building textures and learning how to draw the basics of a figure. 

The first piece that we did was supposed to be a figure drawing of a person if our choice. One main component of this assignment was that we drafted sketches of our figure. The final person that I decided to draw was Rihanna. I picked one of my favorite picture if her which was when she went to the 2015 Met Gala.

The next assignment that we did was a was a line drawing. We were instructed to find ways in which could make art out if one or multiple lines. We looked at many types of renditions of this kind if art. I found that I liked the ones that were made of other abstract art with lines inside of it. 

The next assignment that I did was a digital drawing. For this Ms. Hull gave us a very helpful tool to make these drawings on out computer. I used the various shapes that the tool had in order to illustrate the vision that I had in my head.

Th next one was an illusion of space drawing. For this I looked for optical illusions that I could base my art off of. I found one concept that I liked which included what looked like a 3-D piece of paper. I was able to achieve this affect by actually making my own loose leaf paper on top of white paper. 

The next on was a texture drawing. To prove that we practiced we had to display about 20 different coloring and sketching techniques. The final project was to involve them in a final fruit still life photo. I really like how this one turned out. 

The next tool we were to use was the theory of value. We had to show depth and contrast in a picture. I decided to draw an apple. I thought that it’s different angles would make it easy to show the variation in light and texture. 

The final piece we worked on was a element of art drawing. In this we had to display all the techniques we had learned and put them into one great piece. I made a picture of my name and I spiced up the background with concept and tool if art that I had learned.

Printmaking Blog Post

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1. Vanadium V23

2.  Vanadium is a hard, silvery grey, ductile, and malleable transition metal. It was first founded in 1801 in Mexico.

3. I got the idea from google after looking up pictures that had Vanadium in it.

4. I first had to sketch it, then put it on a sheet, draw it backwards on styrofoam, and then print it with paint. Finally, I pressed the paint-filled styrofoam and let it dry.

5. If I did this project a second time, I would make sure my styrofoam was deeper in.

6. I enjoyed painting it because I liked the feeling of rolling the paint.


Q4 - Art Blog Post

This quarter in Art class, we were given 7 assignments alongside this blog post. These assignments focused on many different elements that are commonly utilized in art. Most of these assignments were done with pencil, besides one, which was done online.

The first week focused on line drawings. This was the assignment I put the most work into. The goal was to research different poses, and draw the people accurately. It was interesting to view how different poses or movements have the ability to change an entire piece of art. I preferred using pencil for this assignment, due to constantly having to erase or redo certain parts.

The next assignment was the line drawing. I learned about the technique of line size. Lines have the ability to change a piece of art depending on how large or thin they are. I decided to draw more simple objects to see how I could change line size.

The digital drawing was the third assignment. Through this assignment, I realized that I preferred drawing with pencil over drawing digitally. There are a lot of different buttons and options for online drawing, even with a simple website like the one I used. However, online drawings do seem easier for different tasks over using pencil, such as more complex drawings. I learned that an online medium does have positives to being used.

For the next assignment, we had to create the illusion of space. Through this assignment, I was able to strengthen my knowledge of one-point perspectives and gain a greater understanding of shading and value, which would be used later.

The next assignment was to practice drawing with texture. To being, I drew many examples of common textures. This helped me realize the importance of texture. It can create depth and more realistic art. I believe texture is best done with a pencil as well, as I found myself erasing incorrect textures frequently.

The value drawing focused on using shading and tones of an object. This assignment felt the most difficult to adjust to, due to the amount of factors that had to be considered. Light sources and shading techniques, alongside other factors, were all needed to create a realistic value drawing. I used pencil again because I felt that shading is best done with a pencil. I spent a good portion of my studio time researching how to create a realistic tone when a light source exists.

For the elements of art drawing, I decided to draw a flower. I believed that a natural object could best use all of the elements we learned in art class overall. I used pencil and colors to create this piece because I had to focus on value and line size. This drawing made me realize that it takes a lot of effort to create a piece that uses multiple elements of art, which I had not done before. This allowed for an interesting process and end result

Overall, I thought this quarter helped strengthen my understanding of the fundamentals of art. Each week presented a different and new topic, and I was able to use most of them in later assignments.


Prints

My element is bohrium number 107. Bohrium was made in a lab in small amounts. They is currently no known use for it. I made a picture of niels bohr who made the element. I drew the man and changed him to show up well in negative space. I also, used the model of the element we learned to do in bio. Next time, I would add more maybe in lab making the element. I loved printing it onto paper was fun. The process to put the paint on paper was cool.


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Printmaking Blog Post & final steps for the element print

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This is not the pictures I had to submit, there were supposed to be 3 color prints of this on paper but sadly I lost them. You get the idea though, so it's all good. My element name is Iodine and its atomic number is 53. The origin of the name was  from the Greek word "iodes" meaning "violet". Iodine has 53 protons, 74 neutrons, and 53 electrons. Iodine was discovered in 1811 by a french chemist named Barnard Courtois. Iodine was created when Mr.Courtois was testing an experiment where he was extracting sodium and potassium from seaweed ash. After they were removed he added sulfuric also known as H2SO4 to further process the ash. By mistake he added too much acid and this caused violet colored cloud erupted from the mass. Then the gas condensed on metal objects in the room and this created solid iodine. Iodine reduces thyroid and kills bacteria, fungus, and kills other microorganisms such as amoebas. There is a specific kind of iodine called potassium iodine and it can help treat radioactive accidents but it can’t prevent them.  Iodine is halogen and nonmetal. It’s state is solid and it looks like purple vapor. Fun fact iodine is a rare element both in the earth’s crust and the solar system.I got my idea from someone who had done something similar. They had fishes and seaweed spread out but mines had 2 seaweed that formed a x and had 2 fishes next to each side.I also added medicine because iodine can be found in medicine. I had to first draft what I was going to be pasting. After I decided what to make, I had to draw it on a very thin paper and then trace it over a soft piece of paper. Once it pasted I had to start pasting it with paint and it took me lots of tries to get 3 that were really good. I would change the drawing because I forgot to add the medicine in my final print. The part of the project that I enjoyed the most was printing the drawing with paint because it was fun. I found the color pushing into the paper very satisfying. I liked how we all just tried to get the perfect print.

iron.

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               ​My element is iron (Fe), atomic number 26. Iron was discovered in Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Egypt, dating back to about 3000 BC. It had been smelted and used for ceremonial purposes at this time and was way too expensive to be used in everyday life. Iron is mostly known for being used to make steel. But, it is also used to make tools, frying pans, railroad tracks, bolts, horseshoe, and even weapons like guns and knives. The most important thing about iron is that it forms a lot of Earth’s outer and inner core.

I got the idea for my imagery from searching uncommon things iron is used for. A long time ago, the body of cars were actually made from Iron before car designers decided that it was too heavy and resulted to something lighter. If I had to do this differently, I would've actually put the atomic number on my image. I enjoyed printing in general, I feel like if one of our assignments in art didn't include paint, it would beat the purpose of the entire class.

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My element is called Iridium and the atomic number is 77. Iridium is a very hard and brittle metal that is used to coat the lenses of binoculars in order to reduce glare and help the lenses become clearer when you see through them. Iridium was discovered in 1803 by a chemist named Smithson Tennant. He discovered Iridium by dissolving platinum in a substance called aqua regla.

I got the idea to draw binoculars because Iridium is used to coat the lenses of binoculars. In order to make this print I first sketch a drawing of the binoculars. Then I made another sketch of the binoculars in tracing paper. Using the tracing paper sketch I traced the drawing into a piece of styrofoam. After doing that I coated the styrofoam with a layer of paint and placed a blank paper on top of it and that's how I got all three prints done. If I were to do this project again I would start the printing process earlier than I actually did. My favorite part about this project was coming up with an idea for my drawing. I enjoyed this because I learned a lot of information about the element that I was assigned.


Tristan Atoms and Art- Cobalt

​Cobalt is an element with an atomic number of 27. The element was discovered in 1735 by a man named Georg Brandt. During a little background research I found that Cobalt is a major part of electric cars and for companies like Tesla. The market for Cobalt surged as Tesla was on the rise. It was worth more than many other ores for a while and still is worth more than most. That' what gave me the idea to put the Tesla logo on my print.

The process itself was me first making out a drawn to scale sketch of what I wanted of the print. The next step was to take some tracing paper and trace over what I did on the sketch. After that the last step before printing is to flip the tracing paper and make that indentation into the plate. Once I did that I was ready to print. All printing was to roll paint over the plate and then press it to a piece of paper where you wanted to make the print. To change color just wash the plate and roll a different color.
If I had another go at it I'd make the indentations on my plate as best I could because I feel like that's a really important factor in making your final result come out as you intended it to. Other than that though I don't think I would change anything. I liked my design and how everything was spaced out. So overall pretty good I guess.
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Printmaking Element Print

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  • My element was Gallium, and it's atomic number was 31.
  • Gallium was discovered in 1875 in Paris, France by a french chemist named Paul E. Lecoq de Boisbaudran. Before it’s discovery, the father of the periodic table Dmitri Mendeleev predicted it’s place on the periodic table. He named it eka-aluminum as he predicted it would be placed below aluminum on the periodic table. Gallium’s main use is often combined with arsenic to create Gallium arsenide, which is dominantly used in electronics. Such electronics include the circuits of microwaves, infrared circuits, and high speed switching circuits. Also, Gallium is part of gallium nitride and indium gallium nitride, which is used in production of semiconductors mainly for solar panels, and laser and light emitting diodes. Gallium can also be used as a substitute for mercury in medical thermometers. 
  • My idea for the imagery was that since gallium is often used in electronic motherboards and such, I decided to place it inside of a computer screen, combined with a mouse, and electrical pathways coming out the side, representing the motherboard.
  • I went through a strict process that I had in mind to create this print. I wanted to dish out as many ideas as possible for my print; some of the prototypes that I came up with was the Ga31 being microwaved in a microwave, lasers shooting at the atomic number and symbol, and the sun shining down on solar panels engraved with Gallium's atomic number and symbol. I ultimately chose the computer design due to it's connection to modern day society, and also it will be easily recognizable.
  • If I did this print a second time, I would have probably tried to make the colors more full instead of making it look faded, because the fade does not play in with the theme of computers being old and what not. By making my color a bit more stand out, the computer will shine brightly on the print.
  • I really enjoyed making the actual print, and using the ink alongside the brayer roller. It was really interactive, and it got me thinking that people do this as a profession, so they could make really cool designs with this kind of technique.

Periodic Prints: Rubidium

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​Rubidium is the 37th element of the periodic table. It was found in 1861 through the flame test. Rubidium's used a getter in vacuum tubes (to remove trace gases), in fireworks to give a dark red color, in atomic clocks, and is found in photocells. I got the idea for my prints through fireworks. I thought it'd be a nice way to make a somewhat complex drawing (and I had no idea what the other things were). To make this print, I drew it on paper normally, then copied it onto a translucent copy paper. I put the copy paper onto the printing board, and traced the image really hard reverse onto it. What I got was a printing board that concaves where I drew. I covered the board in paint, put a paper on the board, and used a spoon to evenly apply pressure to the paper. I really liked the first step; coming up with ideas. I thought it was pretty creative.

Q4 Art Work

The last quarter of the year was fun because we had a different type of drawing. I had seven different type of drawing. Week 1 was figure drawing and I was excited to start the quarter well so I put a lot of work into this drawing. I wanted to draw a person figure drawing. At first, it was difficult because I made the head very huge but I work around it and made a nice drawing. Week 2 Line drawing I put a lot into drawing a nice line drawing when I was searching for line drawing and found a nice picture. Week 3 Digital Drawing was different from another drawing since it was online. I have already drawing online so it was very fun. Week 4 Illusion Drawing was kind difficult but fun because make it look 3D. Week 5 Practice Texture Drawing was difficult because we need a lot of detail. Week 6 Value Drawing I had to make sure it had different type shade to make it nice. The last drawing Element drawing I wanted to use digital editing and drawing to make a masterpiece for my last drawing. Overall I have enjoyed art class because it was different from other class.

Oxygen holds up life

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My element is oxygen and its atomic number is 8. Oxygen is a gas which although it sounds silly, was discovered in 1772 by Joseph priestly. Oxygen lets us breathe, is the backbone to evolution, and it helps keep long lasting fires. All of these things are interesting, but what my print is based off of is that oxygen holds up life itself. Think of everything that I just said oxygen does, and it will become obvious that oxygen is holding energy and life. I wanted to acknowledge this by making both the periodic number for oxygen(O), and it's atomic number(8) in a position where it looks like it is holding up the earth. I also do understand that there are many other elements that are necessities to these things, but I am simply stating that oxygen is a very big factor in life and energy.

I also had many other ideas like making a print of a lizard growing into a dinosaur, because there was an insane amount of oxygen in prehistoric times, which let lizards grow into dinosaurs. I also thought of doing something with fire, but I thought that that would be very bland and boring, just because oxygen makes fire last long. Because of these reasons, I decided to go with my design. One thing that I wished I did was make it more obvious that oxygen is the backbone by drawing a spine or even simply positioning the period symbol and atomic number better. Making this print was very fun and it opened up my mind to all that elements do.

Art9 printmaking analysis

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Printmaking is a vital and important concept in our society today. Printmaking to put it simply is the act of creating a print from any medium you prefer! Whether it be digital or made traditionally, without printmaking, our usage of stamps, wall decor, playing cards and many other important things to society, would not exist. One of the oldest forms of printmaking is engraving, which was done all the way back to caves in 3000 B.C. It is speculated that in china, they invented a primitive form of printmaking called the rubbing, which was used on stones and seals. Printmaking is not only a calming and fun task, without it, many fun things in today's society would not be here.


This print depicts happy and pastel-colored hedgehogs chittering and lazily eating apples. The pale pastel colors indicate that it's meant to soothe and de-stress the consumer. Some of the hedgehogs are happily gazing about, while some laying lazily or sleeping.

The hedgehogs are evenly spaced along with the apples. This gives the print a sweeter and more innocent look. It is most likely geared toward children, seeing as it has a cutesy and calming aesthetic. 

I think that this print is meant to be for therapy or a de-stressing activity. Its calm colors and happy shades give it a lively yet sleepy look. It is not exciting, yet not boring all at once.

This is a good print because of the spacing and the use of negative space. The blending of the pastel colors is beautiful and gives it a very child-like kawaii vibe. 

Element Print-Manganese



  • What is your element? Name and atomic number

  • -My element is Manganese, its atomic number is 25.

  • Tell the reader about your element, history, function/use and so on.

  • - Manganese has been around for more than three centuries, it was discovered by a swedish chemist by the name of Johan Gottlieb Gahn. Manganese. A good amount of the Earth's crust is actually made of manganese

  • How did you get the idea for the imagery you chose?

  • I didn't want to do a generic soda can so I decided that I was going to do a human body with a lot of foods that are high in manganese and I can have that as my symbol.

  • What process did you go through to make this print?

  • My process for this was kind of long and kind of easy at the same time, I decided on my design in the actually really like my design but I doubt it it for a while because I thought it was too simple or it was just not going to look well as my final product but I actually love how it turned out. I made three drawing prince before I transferred it onto my styrofoam plate and I picked my best one in my favorite one.

  • What would you do differently if you did this print a second time?

  • I think I would have changed how I made my styrofoam plate I would have darkened more areas so that it would have given more deaths to the final product because I don't think I pressed down as hard with my pencil when I was making a styrofoam plate and because of that it wasn't as precise as I wanted it to be.

  • What part of the project did you enjoy the most? Describe the step and what you liked so much about it.

  • My favorite part about the project was probably the printing process with a styrofoam plate onto the final white paper. This is because I felt like it was just really refreshing seeing my final print come to life and seeing the different colors that I could have it associated with. So with the printing process I had to use a barrel thing and roll this slow drying paint on my styrofoam plate which then I transferred and pressed against a white piece of paper which was going to be my final paper and so the paint from the styrofoam plate would be transferred onto the final.


Printmaking Blog Post-Nickell Caesar

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My element was Caesium, it's atomic number is 55. Caesium was discovered in 1860, by german chemists Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff. Caesium was named after the blue lines that was observed in its spectrum. The most common use for Caesium is as drilling fluid, but it is also used for atomic clocks, which is an important part of the internet and mobile phone networks. I made a drill for my imagery, because caesium is used as the drilling fluid within drills, and used blue paint because the element got its name for the blue lines within its spectrum. I decided that making a drill would be the best option because it wouldn't be hard for people to understand what I was trying to make and it would be interesting ways to show this by using positive and negative space. If I was to print a second time, I'd use some more paint on my paper, because, there was some white spots still left on the matted print. I enjoyed the actual printing part, because it was cool seeing the reversed image coming out the correct way, it was so satisfying.

Printmaking Blog - Yasir Thomas

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My element is titanium and the atomic number is 22. It was named titanium after a titan from greek mythology because it’s strong. Now it is mainly used to make aircraft, spacecraft, and missiles because of how strong and dense it is. I chose to do an airplane because it’s made out of titanium. At first I wanted to do a cool airplane until I realized how difficult it was to draw. So then I stuck with a regular one that only shows the front view of an airplane. To make this print I made numerous amount of sketches until I found one that was the best that I could do. Then, I traced the sketch onto tracing paper then put it on the foam. If I had to do this project over again I would chose something that would resemble how strong titanium is instead of doing a plain airplane. The part of the project that I enjoyed the most was finishing and turning in the art because I would worry about how good it was until I realized I did the best I could.


Element Cutout: Sulfur

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My Element is Sulfir, and its atomic number is 16. You can find it in coulum 16 of the periodic table. Sulfur was first discovered in prehistoric times, but it was said that it was first discovered in 1777, by a french scientist named Antoine Lavoisier. Sulfur was officially and element in 1787, but it was known as a compound until 1867 when it was discovered that it was not a compound of anything. 
Sulfur is used in many things such as black gun powder, fertilizers, sulfuric acid for batteries, as well as fireworks, paper, and in some medicines.
I had gotten my idea of drawing a cracked egg for my print-out because I found out that Sulfur is used in eggs. I had thought that Sulfur wasn't edible, but when I realized that Sulfur is in the food we eat, I had decided to choose the most common food where Sulfur is found.
First, I had 3 different drawings for Sulfur, one was like a Sulfur terminal, another was a bar of soap because Sulfur is also found in face soap I then drew the egg and I felt like that this drawing looked way netter than the others, as well as giving a small image of the fact that Sulfur is found in the food we eat. 
Second, I had traced my image onto some wax paper, so I could use it as a stencil for when I had to put it into my foam plate in order to roll the ink on top to print it onto normal paper. I then used a ruler to rip the sides off of the image to give it a bit of a jagged look. I had measuered a piece of construction paper to be a 1-inch border around the printed image(the egg) and then gluded it onto the paper once I was satified.
If I could do this a second time, I would want to mix colors to give it a more unique look, as well as took my time with the tearing, because as you can see, some of the image is ripped.
I enjoyed the tearing part the most of this project. I had to put a ruler on around the edges of my images to rip the excess paper around it to give it that jagged look. I enjoyed this the most because not only did it feel satisfying to rip the paper off, it inspired me to try to make images with jagged images.

Printmaking Final Product

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What is your element? Name and atomic number

My element was chlorine. The atomic number is 17.

 

Tell the reader about your element, history, function/use and so on.

The element chlorine is a well-often used substance mostly in solid and liquid form. Chlorine in gas form is dangerous. In liquid and solid form, it is often used to clean and used in pools because it kills disease.

 

How did you get the idea for the imagery you chose?

My common knowledge on the topic plus a bit of research.

 

What process did you go through to make this print?

It wasn’t difficult to do the drawing and the carving, the hardest part was printing.

 

What would you do differently if you did this print a second time?

Maybe I would find a way to make my print out better.

 

What part of the project did you enjoy the most? Describe the step and what you liked so much about it.

Even though it didn’t come out as well as I wanted it to, printing was fun. I enjoyed rolling the paint onto the styrofoam and pressing down on it to make the print come out


Francium Print - Isabella - Art

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The element I made a print for Francium. Francium’s atomic number is 87. Francium is a super rare element that was discovered by Marguerite Perey. Francium was discovered by Marguerite Perey, a French Physicist. She was working with the radioactive decay of actinium and when it decays it turns into another element. She was putting multiple series of reactions, and soon discovered something she did not recognize. She did some research and realized that it was one of the missing elements on the periodic table, number 87. She named the element “Francium” after her hometown, France.

Francium is a radioactive metal,  also known as an alkali metal because it has one valence electron.  And if you didn’t know, Alkali Metals are super reactive to water. If Francium were to touch water, it would cause a huge explosion. The explosion would be so dangerous and would be fatal. So for my image, I made an explosion. We don’t use francium for anything because it’s so dangerous, the only choice I had was an explosion.

The process to make the print was pretty simple. We first drew a rough sketch of our drawing and after that we had to make a final copy. Next we take thin wax paper and trace it on the wax paper. After that we get a plate (which is a thin piece of foam) and turn the wax paper so it’s backwards on the plate. It had to be backwards because if not, the final plate would be revered and wrong. I then carved into the plate by tracing the lines on the wax paper. The carving transferred and now it was time for paint. There was a paint station. Each color of paint had a roller that makes it easier to paint the print. After you cover the plate with paint, you put a clean piece of paper over the wet paint and you press over the plate. If you do this correctly, you’ll get the image transferred onto the clean piece of paper. You let that dry.

After it’s completely dry, you take a ruler and put it on the edge of the image. You then rip the excess paper off. You continue this for all of the edges. After you have the completed print, you take a construction paper and make a 1 inch border around the print. That’s how you make a print! You repeat these steps until you are satisfied with the paint coverage. The more you practice, the more you improve, the better the image transfers and comes out.

If I were to change anything different with my process, I would listen the first time and not cut my print out. I would also not put too much pressure when transferring the image with the spoon, I made some indentations which you could see in later versions of my prints. Even though I made some mistakes, I really enjoyed the whole process. My favorite part was painting the carving. I was so satisfying and relaxing to do. I would definitely do this project again!



Antonia Solar- Printmaking Post

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My element that I had to create a print of was the transition metal, iridium. It is number 77 on the periodic table. Iridium got its name from the goddess Iris for its colourful salts. Iridium was originally discovered by Smithson Tennant in 1803 in London. It was found in the residue of platinum that had been dissolved in aqua regia. It is usually used as a hardening agent for platinum alloys. It is also used in the tips of pens and in equipment that has to withstand high temperatures.
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For my print, I got the idea to do the skeleton of a dinosaur. The reason why I picked this was because of the Alvarez Hypothesis. This said that an object collided with the earth 65 million years ago, making many species extinct (dinosaur's being an example.) During the time when this object is said to have collided with the Earth there are high levels of iridium in the Earth's layer. Because of this, I decided to do a print of a dinosaur skeleton to symbolize the hypothesis of the extinction of dinosaurs. To create my print, I really tried to create a drawing that would be easy to see but eye-catching at the same time. I really tried to make the lines deep so that they would stand out in my print. After, I had to trace my drawing so that it would be backwards on the foam but forwards in the end. We then rolled a layer of paint over our foam and put a piece of paper on top to smooth it onto the paper. If I could do my prints gain I would take more time making sure that the lines didn't have paint in them and that they are bold so that people can really tell what my print is of. I would also add the atomic number of my element way bigger because it was really hard to make a print in which you could see the number clearly. A step that I really enjoyed was the actual printmaking process because it was really fun to be trying to create a good print and testing different paint colours.

Printmaking Blog

The element assigned to me was Argon. It's atomic number is 18 on the periodic table. Argon is a gas in our atmosphere that takes up about 0.9% of it. Its found in lightbulbs so I decided to make my print a lightbulb that was accompanied by a baseball bat that was intended to smash it. My process was just me trying different amounts of paint, and trying to make sure paint went where it was needed. If I were to print again I'd definitely would redo  the atomic number, realizing that the print made it backwards. But overall I definitely enjoyed the designing of the print.  I went through a few ideas and I liked the one I chose best.
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Element Print - Vanadium

My element is Vanadium, it’s atomic number is 23. Vanadium was discovered a couple times, the first by Andrés Manuel del Rio in 1801 who then sent the element to a french chemisist. The chemisist said it was just a chromium mineral. Later on in 1831 it was discovered at  Stockholm by chemisist named Nil Gabriel Selfström. He found it in a piece of Ore(which is another element), then later in 1869 Vanadium is being produced purely. Vanadium is used in jet engines, so I decided to make a jet to represent that. I first drew a rocket ship but I thought I could do better. I put the sketch on a different piece of paper so I could easily print it out. I rolled out the paint then put the paint on my sketch, once my sketch was fully covered in paint I put it face down on a blank piece of paper. Then I rubbed a spoon over both papers so the ink would transfer. After the ink was on the other side I let the papers dry and then cut them out. I would change my sketch so it was a little more interesting and looked better with the ink on it. My favorite part of the project was getting to actually print the sketches out. It was very hands on and very fun to do.