Vincent//Selenium// Chicken
For art we were introduced to printmaking in class so what we were assigned was an element an we were to print something that was relatively related to the element and we were to also include the symbol for the element along with its atomic number. Sleniu was the element assigned to me and the symbol is Se with an atomic number of 34. Selenium was discovered in the 1817 by Jöns Jacob Berzelius.
For the first step we were to draft three sketches and we had to pick one for our final print. In the end i ended up picking my second choice the chicken which is high in selenium. but next we had to trace the drawing onto light tracing paper that we were able to see through both sides. This came in handy when we had to transfer the image on the tracing paper to the printmaking frame or board. We had to put the image on backwards first, then we had to get some printmaking ink and spread that across a tray with a roller that we had to roll out until we heard a sticky sound then we would cover out printout with the ink then transfer it to printing paper. In the end i had fived done btu to hand in we have to matte one and not. To matte we have to rip the image out with a ruler that we put against the line. At that point we were finished.
If I were to do this again the only thing different was further develop my imagery to have a really cool printout, even though I am already happy with the wokj that I had produced. The best part though had to be doing the actual printing because it felt like you were doing something productive and it felt like something that I can teach everyone else
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