Printmaking Post
My element was gold, and it has the atomic number of 79. Gold has many uses, including being used in computers and phones because it can conduct electricity. Gold foil is used in face masks, astronauts helmets and for coating Olympic medals. Because of how old it is, it's hard to get an exact date for when the very first amount of gold was discovered, but the first recorded gold coin was used in 700 B.C.
I chose to make a calf with lightning behind it because of the golden calf in the Bible and because gold can conduct electricity, so I made it like the lightning was reaching towards the golden calf. I didn't have a lot of other ideas, so I chose this one more out of necessity than out of anything else. In order to make this print, I dug into the plate with different screwdrivers and tools so that the lines would be deep enough. I also got a screwdriver which had a starred point, which is how I made the background.
If I did this again, I would make my lines deeper and more exact so that my prints wouldn't appear so ruddy looking. My favorite part of this project was doing the printmaking, mainly because it was fun to use the roller thing.
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