Mono
Lino
I have reached a cross roads in my project! I have two very different routes I could take my project, and both have very different aesthetics and visually quality. Although they work around similar themes of abstracting and re-imagining Huxleys face.
My ideas before:
Initially I had wanted to produce a range of different prints that include different interpretations of Huxleys life and experiments (to do with mescaline/peyote hallucinations). Each having different objects and images completely, but that are linked aesthetically (with colour and line quality).
My ideas have changed completely after exploring the print process'. I now want my final set to be series of prints that explore that same process (not 5 totally unique images). Maybe making them sequential with something happening. Or just variations on the same concept running through them all.
Comparing:
- I thought about using both mono's and lino's for my finals but I think there visual qualities are way to different and they wouldn't work in the same set. I want my finals to be obviously linked together and consistent.
- The monos have a very rough, hand crafted and abstract feel to them, they're immediate and quickly made. They are unusual and random and this adds to their visual quality.
- The lino is well crafted and neat. The lines are graphic and well rendered with neat pattern that has an organised structure. The design is bold, vibrant and striking.
- A similarity in both is that they have outlines of a face that fits with a green shape, they are sort of the same idea (a deconstructed huxley face) but communicated with a totally different media, line quality and process.
- Overall I think the lino has a more professional and finalised feel to it. Where as the mono is very experimental and loose.
- Because of the amount of monos I did it feel like its a contained project in its self, not much development can be done to them, unless I change them completely. I will look at making a small publication out of them in my own time, because I really like them as a small project on there own. "The Mysterious Mind of Aldous Huxley" I could imagine this being a small concertina book.
Im going to use the lino print I have already done as my first final design, and make a series starting from that.
Although im not using mono in my finals I want to let the mono designs influence my next four lino prints. Because its such a good way of generating ideas and experimenting with shape, its got me thinking about loads of different ways to deconstruct a face.
Finals:
- Make a set of faces that get more and more deconstructed as they go along.
- I want them to get crazier and weirder as they progress and open out into more shape and pattern.
- This will work because I already have the first print of a fairly human looking Huxley face, I can work from this and look at how too make him weirder and shapyer as I progress.
- So my final set will be a process of me abstracting huxleys face more and more. Showing his face in lots of different perceptions (like he talks about objects in his book being looked at in different perceptions).
- I will keep a consistent format and composition, and continue to do 2 layer linos, with one dominant layer of pattern, outlines and square background, and a second layer of more solid shape.
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