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Here are some prints from the class that I found interesting. First is David’s cardboard print.
He cut areas out of the cardboard to get this textured, abstract effect.

He then placed coloured tissue paper down on his cardboard and sprayed one side with spray-mount (the side that was going to touch the paper). Once he printed it down on the paper, the tissue stuck onto the white paper while the ink came through. This was an interesting way of adding colour to a print.

Stacy also demonstrates this technique of adding colour with tissue paper in her print below.

Gillian also used a cardboard printing technique. This print looks great when you stand back from it. Its amazing to think that she only used cardboard and black ink. I think it is very effective.

One of my favourite prints is Caroline’s landscape. In this mono print she has simply added a blue sky. This print is full of texture and the simplicity of the blue sky brings it all together by quieting it down. Once again, a very simple procedure with strong, effective results.

Blanche used screen printing to obtain this cow silhouette. The intricate detail in the stencil (the cows) balances perfectly with her use of basic black and white.

Blanche also made this embossed print. I thought it was really different and interesting.

This mono print that Orla made is really simple but effective. The woman is playing with the horizon in a sense, I thought this was clever.

‘Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?’ (M.C. Escher http://agutie.homestead.com/files/escher/escher_quotes_1.html)

Eye

‘By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.’ (M.C. Escher http://agutie.homestead.com/files/escher/escher_quotes_1.html)

Liberation

I really enjoy the work of Escher. His work is mathematically inspired and order and symmetry play a major role in his work. This work intrigues me as I find it very mysterious. His absolute perfection is astonishing. He worked primarily in the media of Lithographs and Woodcuts. ‘We adore chaos because we love to produce order.’ (M.C. Escher http://agutie.homestead.com/files/escher/escher_quotes_1.html)
Three Worlds

‘To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of ‘art’. What one person considers to be ‘art’ is often not ‘art’ to another. ‘Beautiful’ and ‘ugly’ are old-fashioned concepts that are seldom applied these days; perhaps justifiably, who knows? Something repulsive, which gives you a moral hangover, and hurts your ears or eyes, may well be art. Only ‘kitsch’ is not art – we’re all agreed about that. Indeed, but what is ‘kitsch’? If only I knew!‘ (M.C. Escher http://agutie.homestead.com/files/escher/escher_quotes_1.html)


‘Drawing is deception.’ (M.C. Escher http://agutie.homestead.com/files/escher/escher_quotes_1.html)

‘Order is repetition of units.
Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.‘ (M.C. Escher http://agutie.homestead.com/files/escher/escher_quotes_1.html)