Check in, Check out, Repeat
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InspirationI was inspired by Andy Warhol's piece named Campbell's soup. This piece was my inspiration due to the fact that my piece would have a continuation of the obsession theme. Obsession is an idea that continuously preoccupies or intrudes on a person's mind. Obsession is continuously affecting the mind, constantly driving the mind towards something. I enjoyed the simplicity of his piece, but the complexity of it as well. I knew that I wanted to create the same type of affect as Andy Warhol but with an object that many people are obsessed with, so I began to make a list.
I decided to use Roy Lichtenstein as an inspiration for the faces that I'd put on the inside of my piece because of the sad looks in their eyes. Obsession is usually associated with bad things that make a person sad or depressed. He is also a pop artist as well as Andy Warhol which connects both of my inspirations to one another. Pop art was a big inspiration for this piece due to the boldness and simplicity of the lines.
Roy Lichtenstein's pieces were also a big inspiration for my piece due to the fact that all of the women in his piece have sad, depressed expression because of something or someone else. They became reliant on someone or something and were sad without them, which (in a way) is obsession. MeaningI wanted my piece to connect heavily to obsession, but at first I couldn't figure it out. Then it dawned on me, our generation is obsessed with our phones. We constant have to know where they are and what is going on on social media. We wake up, check them, get home, check them, we check them even before we go to bed. I used the faces inside of the phone to portray the idea that we look at our phones so much that the outline of our faces are stuck on the phone. This meaning of this piece is literal but I like it.
Ideas/Brainstorming
Creating on Photoshop
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After getting my combined image, I copied all layers and pasted all layers onto a new sheet that I created. The new sheet that I created was 5 inches by 8 inches in order to go underneath the plastic that I be scratching into. This would make it easier for me to depict the image that I wanted due to the fact that I had to basically trace the piece that I had already created in Photoshop but on plastic using a sharp tool. My next step was to print this out so that I would be able to trace it.
ScratchingI taped the plastic piece into my sketchbook with the Photoshop edited piece underneath in order to trace over it. I used the sharp point of the carving tool and began to carve roughly, I then realized that I couldn't achieve straight, clean lines doing this. I started to let up on the pressure that I applied to the tool. Letting go of the pressure helped a lot in achieving my result, although it frightened me. I thought that the lines wouldn't be deep enough and that I wouldn't get clean and dark lines.
PrintingFirst I needed to lay down newspaper onto the table in order to keep the table as clean as possible, then I needed to get all of my materials ready and put water inside of a water basin to let it soak for 7 minutes. Which those were soaking, I put ink on the plastic surface (on the side that I scratched into) and rubbed it in using a flat plastic tool. I then took newspaper in small pieces that I ripped up and rubbed the excess ink off of the surface that I needed to print. After getting all of the extra ink off of the plastic surface, the 7 minutes were about finished. I then took the paper out of the water and patted it between two towels until it was damp but not dripping. I then laid my plastic piece onto the wood pallet that is inside of the roller and covered it with the damp white paper. After doing that, I set news paper on top of the white paper and let the large piece of linoleum sit on top of all of that and I rolled it through.
ReflectionI struggled with this piece as a whole, I couldn't come up with an idea and once I had one, it seemed as if I couldn't execute it properly in the exact way that I wanted and it frustrated me. Moving past the frustration, I liked the idea and overall meaning of my piece. I wasn't happy with my print but I got it done and I think my message gets is reflected pretty accurately.
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