CHECK THIS OUT, AMAZING! blog for college

https://www.youtube.com/user/PottsSculpture

My co-worker showed me this artist, his name is bob potts. This is the coolest shit i have ever seen. can you believe it? It speaks for itself.

Printmaking, in the 1400's ?

Michael Wolgemut 

an early, successful artist during the rennasance   

Here is a self portrait as his teacher.

Michael Wolgemut (1434/7-1519) had one of the largest artist's workshops in Germany. Dürer had served his apprenticeship there from 1486 until 1489 and Wolgemut must have been proud to have witnessed his former pupil's rapid success. In Dürer's portrait, everything is focused on the head, set against a neutral green background. The old man's features are not disguised, from his sunken eyes and gaunt cheeks to the loose skin around his neck. Wolgemut wears a fur-lined coat and a simple hat or scarf, perhaps the headgear he would have worn in his workshop to keep off the dust. His eyes are still alert and he has a thoughtful expression. Dürer does not depict a pitiable man, but marvels at his indomitable spirit  

        

 

 The Dance of Death (1493) by           Michael Wolgemut, from the Liber Chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel

This is one of my favorite pictures, it is a Wolgemut print.The title is "The Dance of Death"

By: Prisma Archivo Item #: 8720707

                                        

                                         Michael Wolgermut 1434-1519

Sources: http://www.wga.hu/html_m/d/durer/1/08/4wolgemu.html

Contemporary painting and printmaking, blogg for college

                           

          Paula Rego is one of europes  most influential contemporary artists, She is a womans rights activist, painter, and printmaker, Paula was born in 1935 and lives in portugal.Her work can be viewed at this web adress:

 Hhttp://www.marlboroughfineart.com/artist-Paula-Rego-30.html

I picked paula for this blog because she  has a unique style as a printmaker and as a painter that i have never seen before, i find her work quite amusing in fact, and i love the way she does her characaters. her collection of prints and paintings throughout her life is quite extensive, in fact she has the largest collection of completed prints and paintings that i have ever seen. She has lived her life as an artist, and is now dubbed " the painter of stories". If you check out the URL: that i posted you will see what i am talking about. Hope you enjoy.

                         

Peggy Bacon print maker, blog for college

In my art history class we are studying the feminist movement , so for this printmaking blog i chose a female print maker, who i believe to be a very good artist. Her name is Peggy Bacon. Bacon was an , illastrator, painter, and  print maker. in the late 1920's and 1930's she was noted for producing characaters of well known and prominante personalities of the time. Here is a portrait and some images she produced during her career
as an artist.

T"he aim of a caricature is to heighten and intensify to the point of absurdity all the subject's most striking attributes; a caricature should not necessarily stop at ridiculing the features but should include in its extravagant appraisal whatever of the figure may be needed to explain the personality, the whole drawing imparting a spicy and clairvoyant comment upon the subject's peculiarities."

—Peggy Bacon^[2]

 

Project three, FIRST ATTEMPT AT dry point, AND results, blogg for college

 I found dry point to be one of my favorite printmaking teqniques that i learned this semester in art class, so far. i noticed this method takes more time than blind prints, and lenollium blocks, because of the available tools, and the tequniques used to complete the dry point project. So here are the rtesults.these are all prints of the hand made tattoo machines that i make, WWW. DSMDSC.COM

Below is a personal project of my own, i started it because dry point has been my favorite printing method as of today. Below is a print plate i  am making for business cards. I plan on saving money on printer ink in the long run ,and gaining more long term clients ,by printing thier business cards for them in front of them, they would probably be more likly to hold on to it and keep it in that case.

DRY POINT ETCHING, BLOG FOR COLLEGE

        Out of all the pictures of dry point printing on google search images, this picture caught my eye, because it reminds me of my favorite poem by Edgar Allen Poe called "The raven". this image comes from a website called maintaining a successful budget for teachers. i believe this particular image was done by Sam Riccardone,      

http://batmansam8-2.blogspot.com/2014/03/drypoint-etching.html

There isn't a lot on the website about the artist, except for his profile statistics.if you check it out there is a link to his whole portfolio on that site. i chose this dry point because it is assignment number three.

LENOLLIUM PRINT MAKING, BLOG FOR COLLEGE

"Linoleum was a 20th-century development in the art of relief cuts. The linoleum block consists of a thin layer of linoleum mounted on wood; in this the design to be printed is cut in the same manner as for a woodcut. The advantage of linoleum cuts lies in the softness of the material and the consequent ease with which it can be cut." source: http://www.instructables.com/id/Linoleum-Block-Printing/step2/Research-

Here is an example of a lenolium print.

I feel the project was not as successful as i intended. The results of my lenolium prints were not satisfactory to my standards, especially considering the amount of time that went into the carvings. these are the results of my first lenollium cuts .I titled the project "Me and my four personalities"

These were the first four lenoillium prints that i produced, self portrait, even though they did not turn out to my expectations, it was fun, and i am going to keep using this method for printing business cards and signs when i run out of printer ink.Below is the lenno block that i used after i accidently used silk screen ink to make my first print.rookie mistsake.

thank you everyone who helped, for providing the knowledge and the tools .

THE BLIND PRINT, blog for college

The blind embossed print is constructed from a die plate, and pressed onto the paper. The die is like a stencil, card board or some kind of material with a cutout region, and pressed onto the surface of a piece of paper, so the image is actually embossed onto the surface of the paper, and can be felt when you touch it. As a student in printmaking i had no idea what i was in for. I had no idea what printmaking was until i enroled in the class. Here is an example of a blind print

The image is not drawn or collored onto the paper, it is pressed onto the paper so you can feel it, this method of printmaking is where they came up with the idea for teaching blind people how to read. I really enjoyed my first printmaking project in college. I have no example to provide for you at the moment because i do not have a camera to produce a image good enough to publish.

THANK YOU, 

JUSTIN DEZONIA

Utagawa Hiroshige , the printmaker, blog for printmaking

    Printmaking is such an unfamiliar form of art, both for myself and a lot of new artists. I feel lucky i get to take a printmaking class this semester. In order to explore the art i want to explore the history of the subject. I am going to start with one of the oldest known famous print artists Utagawa Hiroshige, said to be last master in his trade, printed this very familiar painting in witch most of us are familiar with, called  Great Wave

                                           

Artist	[show]Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎) (1760–1849)
Title	Japanese: 『神奈川沖浪裏』 - Kanagawa oki nami ura The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Literally: "Under a Wave off Kanagawa")
Description	Part of the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, no. 21.
Date	First publication: between 1826 and 1833. This edition: later.
Medium	color woodblock print
Current location	[show]Library of Congress
Inscriptions	Title top left: 「冨嶽三十六景 神奈川沖浪裏」 [Fugaku Sanjūrokkei - Kanagawa oki nami ura, "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji - The Great Wave off Kanagawa"] Signature top left: 「北斎改爲一筆」 [Hokusai aratame Iitsu hitsu, "by Iitsu, formerly known as Hokusai"]
Source/Photographer	Restored version of File:Great Wave off Kanagawa.jpg (rotated and cropped, dirt, stains, and smudges removed. Creases corrected. Histogram adjusted and color balanced.)

 This wood block print was considered to be a work of art produced by the last Japanese master of the tradition. However i believe he opened up the doors to many other artists. Who i will discus  later in different blog posts. Utagawa Hiroshimo is not only a master but a true pioneer in printmaking, you can view more of his work at http://www.ranker.com/list/utagawa-hiroshige-art-and-work-by-this-artist/reference
Thank You,
Justin Dezonia