'Fauna': Print-making

The print-making workshop was generally more focused on printing on textiles however, having printed textiles was not a necessary outcome. Much like my photo-manipulations, I used my own photos as a basis (though any location the copies are unknown to me now).
I chose to look into lino-cutting as a basis to produce prints. From the photos, I traced selected objects within the image to then trace the outline onto the linoleum.



'Oriental Whip Snake Eating a Small Lizard' (2010)
This was originally a tracing used for one of the lino-cuttings. I later chose
to paint underneath the sheet in acrylic, so the outline remained visible.

Lino print of 'Oriental Whip Snake Eating a Small Lizard'.
Originally, I had not taken into account the image being mirrored.

I sometimes took only segements of an image and attempted to re-arrange them over each other to form some vague pattern.

Outline barely came through. I had to re-cut to bring out intended details.

 



I wasn't feeling particularly thrilled when working with these (funnily enough, that was a common feeling for me throughout this project). In hindsight, it was certainly an issue of lacking any real sense of inspiration for what I could work towards rather than actual unfulfilment from the provided media. Especially since now, over a year later, I have found lino-cutting and printing to be most useful in expressing my ideas. Sadly, this won't be shown until much later, when it is more relevant.

 

I used other materials to experiment with for printing, though unlike lino, I would not choose to revisit. Namely, these were wax-based and ink prints. The material was first used to draw out the desired pattern on a sort of paper, which was then placed on top of a sample of fabric to be transferred via steam press. My sample from wax was based on one of the pattern ideas I eventually used for one of the Assassi-nation pieces.

 

Sample wax-based print of 'Assassi-nation V8' (2010)

 

Ink-based prints, images traced from photos taken by myself of animals at Singapore Zoo.