Category: Materials

  • Emulsion

    Emulsion

    From Assignment 5: Letter E Emulsion on emery paper Emulsion paint on emery paper gives a flat image that retains brush strokes, and can be scratched into. Emulsion on enamel tiles  

  • Emery paper

    Emery paper

    From Assignment 5 Letter E Emery paper is smooth fine black sandpaper, used for fine sanding metal. It has a really interesting texture that can take media such as pastel and paint. In my work on Assignment 5 I discovered some ways of using it for quite dramatic images. Some of the accidental textures already…

  • Drypoint

    Drypoint

    From Assignment 5: Letter D I had experimented using dremels and drills on acetate and other surfaces from my OCA Printmaking course. See: http://print.zemniimages.info/portfolio/3-9-experimental-markmaking/ Demonic dogs, dancing dinosaurs and drippy danhdelion dew I had intended to use the normal drypoint technique for my image for the letter D, printing with ink. With the transparent acetate all my…

  • Alluminium foil

    Alluminium foil

    See Letter A To be further developed as I do more on Saudi Arabia and use in other projects. Textures: Foil Armaggedon I also experimented with different ways of incising shapes into the aluminium foil with the intention of painting over with acryllic paint. I first explored scanning, then working with the scans in Photoshop.…

  • Card and cardboard

    Card and cardboard

    This post is to be expanded with examples from other assignments and final logbook See Letter C Corrugated cardboard Using carbon paper is particularly interesting as you cannot tell exactly what you are drawing, and the pen gets stuck in ruts and diverted. Cutting shapes and peeling, then scanning at different exposures and contrast. The…

  • Chocolate

    Chocolate

    From Letter C There is something so very sensuous and comforting using my fingers to get very different effects of different dilutions at different temperatures on different types of card/cardboard. Like using paint, but non-toxic.  Chocolate cats I got hooked on the sensuous feel of drawing curves with my finger. And also the different types…

  • OHP Transparencies

    OHP Transparencies

    There are different types of OHP transparencies: Smooth finish on both sides: meant for simple writing or drawing –  smearing or marker pen Textured surface on one side: different types for inkjet, laser and screenprinting. These give a more varied line and/or hold ink better on the textured side. Overhead Projector Transparency slides were a Happy…

  • Wallpaper textures

    Wallpaper textures

  • Blobs

    Blobs

  • Tissue paper

    Tissue paper

    The Greed Game Letter T