During my education I took a course in old printing techniques. Learning to work with different techniques such as silkscreenprinting, woodcut, etch, drypoint and monoprint was great! I love how experimental it can be, and all the little "mistakes" like a cracked line or not enough ink and so. Also, it was great to be away from the computer for a change!
Woodcut. Me trying to do a maori woodcarving (I love New Zeland!). Tiki face.
Etch + sandblast. Just a tryout, it was pretty damn cold in the classroom at the time. For some reason
painters were painting the window-frames in winter, meaning the windows were open, freezing!
Drypoint of my sisters awesome tortoise Vlekje!
Drypoint portrait of my father. Pity I never finished the clothing part, it looks somewhat funny now...
It's a... a... THING! Don't know, I was monoprinting and this came out, I like it thou...
Everything below is part of the official assignment during the course: to visualise a short poem.
The original poem is in Dutch written by Wiel Kusters.
Maan
in de golven, de jaren
beweegt het sluiteroog door de Titanic,
Maan
in de golven, de jaren
beweegt het sluiteroog door de Titanic,
ziet een kristallen luchter,
gave luchter, een voetstap
op de maan.
Literally translated it should be something like this:
Moon
in the waves, the years
Literally translated it should be something like this:
Moon
in the waves, the years
the shutter moves through the Titanic,
sees a crystal chandelier,
undamaged chandelier, a footstep
on the moon.
Drypoint of moonlight on the ocean. Printed on brown packpaper.
Drypoint + sandblast. A ray of light shining on a chandelier.
A free interpretation on the poem is that time stood still, the moonlight could reach al the way
to the bottom of the ocean and people where still dancing in their beautiful dresses. With that
in mind I made these silkscreenprints. A selfmade design for an invitation for a gala at the Titanic
shipwreck. I did some experiments with the background: colored paper, aquarel painted
paper(on the right) and a background made out of tea (on the left).
Silkscreenprinting experiment. This is the positive + negative space of the image, printed on top
of eachother (intentionally not quite fitting) in different colours. I like the double layered result!
