Printmaking Final Project
My element is nitrogen which has the atomic number of 7. Nitrogen is an odorless and colorless unreactive gas that forms about 78 percent of the earth's atmosphere. It also makes up 3% of the human body. I got my idea of imagery for this element because when researching I found out that nitrogen was first suggested to be called azote; and though it's not what we call it in english some languages do translate azote as nitrogen.
When making my prints I went through a lot of steps that had to be executed in a specific manner. First I had to sketch out my idea, but also make sure that I wasn't using any straight lines except for the numbers and little symbols. Then I went on to outlining my sketch on tracing paper which was pretty easy and after doing that I proceeded to retrace the outline onto the styrofoam sheet. This step was slightly difficult because since I chose a word to represent my element I had to retrace the word backwards. After all the tracing was done that's when the printing actually began. Printing, for this project, was rolling a thick layer of paint onto the styrofoam trace so that once it was placed and smoothed out on a piece of white paper the color would distinguish the positive and negative space.
If I were to do this project again I would change my design and try something different/more unique. Though this is true, my favorite part of this project was painting because I've never been able to work with paint in my own creative way. It also added an element of fun to a project that takes a lot of our grade.
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