Hey, I am Amy Dolan. I am working on my BFA and plan on focusing in Interdisciplinary Studies. Last semester in Lithography I began working on a nautical theme. I think that this is the first class that I really started to dive into imagery that I want to work with, expand and discover. Every image incorporated the ocean. I included a few other elements (sea life and other animals, children, ocean equipment, etc) that I wanted to connect in a bizarre way. The way they related in the scene was purposefully confusing. Another reoccurring element was tangling rope (or leash, tentacle, long and flowing things, etc). This rope represented the fine line between something that is helping and something that is hindering. It added a strange feeling to the image and the viewer could not completely determine whether or not the rope was a good thing or a bad thing.
I have always been interested in the ocean. I’ve spent my whole life near the coast and just feel that it is a huge part of my identity. I want to continue working with a nautical theme, gathering elements of the ocean and turning them into woodcut prints. I am interested in the direction that I was heading with my lithographs, but I think that I will need to adapt it as I figure out how to work with woodcuts and the types of marks I can make. I do not anticipate on being able to achieve the same level of image detail in woodcut that I did in lithography (I could be completely wrong) and I want to try to add a more energetic and abstract feel. I want my woodcut prints to have a rougher feel to them (which I hope they naturally will a bit because of the material). I want to carve images that have movement and energy in them.
I am really interested in how the space of the paper is used. The negative space is often just as important as the positive. I want to create images that are not constrained by a definite border for the scene. This print by Boris Sheynes shows the way that I want to work with the space of the page. The image itself has its own unique shape and flow within the confines of the rectangular paper.
(here’s the link...the image didn’t want to post)
http://artistsheynes.net/The_Hewbrew_Sage_And_The_Philistine_Warrior__woodcut_from_the_David_and_Goliath_Series__Chicago_LG.jpg
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I really appreciated how you dove into your print, though I think you should consider using many more types specific mark making. Use your specific knowledge and experience with your subject to inform your carving which will in turn inform and be really interesting to the viewer. So that even if the image is abstract their is a specificity to the marks that the viewer knows that something amazing is happening.
I couldn't get the link to work for me.
revision to original post:
after i got frustrated with my first and second prints, i started to branch off and make a few prints that did not follow my theme. i used a figure (pug) and text in 2 other woodcuts. This made feel better about woodcut in general and now i think i want to revisit my original ideas. i am going back to the wave and hope to create a successful print. Even though i started to steer away from the nautical theme, there's just something pulling me back to want to get it right. i am definitely still intrigued by the text that i began to use and want to continue with it in addition to the ocean/wave imagery. i like the idea of text that is not easily read and needs a deeper look to try to understand it. when creating the wave, i am still interested in how it relates to the page and the shapes that it can create with the negative space from the flow of the water.
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