Film processing technical notes - Year 1

How to process your film:

1. Put everything in the dark bag such as- film, scissors, developing tank. Once putting these in the bag and you hands are in make sure no light gets in at all.

 

2. Once you have started and your hands are in the bag you have to get your negative or negatives out of the canister that it comes in by simply pulling in out. 
3. After this you need to wind you negative onto the white spiral that comes in the developing tank. 
4. Once this is done place the spirals onto the black tube and then place that in the tank. (If you just have one negative film, still put both spirals in but just make sure the spiral with the film in is on the one of the bottom so all the chemicals get to it.)
5.  Now screw the funnel lid on making sure it is really secure. 
6.  Place the lid on the tank making sure it's on well. 
7. Then to pre-soak pour into the tank 300ml of water at 20c(+/- 1c) per film. 
8. Agitate tank by inverting twice , then tap gently to release air bubbles. Allow to stand whilst mixing developer. 
9. To start the development mix 150ml of developer stock solution with 150ml water, per film.
10. Pour out the pre-soak, the pour in the developer and then start timing. 
11. Agitate continuously for the first 30 sec, then invert twice every 30 secs for the remainder of the development time. (The time you do this depends on the type of negatives you have)

• FP4/Delta 100: 12minutes
• HP5/Delta 400: 14minutes 
• Pan F @ 32 ISO: 9minutes 
• Pan F @ 50 ISO: 10minutes 

12. Now comes the stop bath so at the end of your development time pour the developer away. Replace with 300ml of stop bath solution per film and agitate continuously for 30 seconds.
13. After the stop bath is the fixing stage. Pour in 300ml of working strength fixer per film and agitate continuously for 30secs. Agitate twice every 30secs for a total fixing time of 5mins 
14. Now you have to wash you film by either attaching a wash tube to the tank and leave the water running for about 5-10mins or almost fill the tank with water agitate vigorously for 30secs and pour away. Repeat 12 times. 
15. After washing, fill the tank with water and add a few drips of wetting agent. Soak for approximately 1min, then hang film up in the film dryer.  

Health and safety 

• Try not to get on skin but if you do make sure you wash it off with water.
• If chemicals come into contact with eyes make sure you wash it out immediately. 
• Be very careful when the dark bag is being used as scissors are in the bag and there is a risk of cutting yourself as you cant see whats happening. 

Collagraph - Year 1

What is Collagraph? 

A Collagraph print is created using a collage printmaking technique. The collagraph plate is printed the same way as an etching plate, but the process also includes the basic principle of relief printing. A collagraph can be printed either as intaglio or relief. You can use paint, glue, fabric and almost anything with texture that are flat enough to not rip the paper when you print it to make different effects for your collagraph piece. The materials you apply to the plate will depend what the tone and strengths of the ink will turn out like, and will also give you a variation of textures. 

How to make the Collagraph?

1. Get a piece of card that is the size you want your Collagraph to be.
2. Make you design on the card with the different materials you have picked. (Make sure everything is glued down alot so later materials don't come off.)
3. After creating your deign apply the varnish all over your board. This is to ensure that the materials you have stuck down are all flat enough. (Make sure vanish is dry before applying and ink.)
4. Now apply ink all over collagraphy board making sure it goes EVERYWHERE you need the ink to be. To make this easier you can scrub the ink in with a toothbrush. 
5. After all of the ink is applied you then scrub the ink of with the scrim making sure there is enough ink left on the print but not to much. 
6. Once this is done place damp paper on top of the inked up collagraph board and place in press and roll the press over the print. 

Sue Lowe

Susan Lowe is an American actress and artist who has appeared primarily in the works of John Waters for most of her career. She is a collagraph artist. I have researched her because I like the different type of tone she gets from the materials she uses and also i like the colours she uses aswell.

Lino printing - Year 1

What is Lino printing? 

It is a printing method using a sheet of linoleum, in which a subtractive cutting method is used to take away the parts of linoleum where you want to leave the white of the page, and keep the parts you want to be inked! In the result you have a linocut that can reproduce the same image over and over again.

How do you Lino print

1. Transfer design onto the sheet of linoleum with pen or pencil.
2. Carve the design with the lino cutting tools.
3. Prepare the paper but making sure it has been soaked in water and then dried off.
4. Roll out the ink on a plastic board. 
5. Transfer the ink from the board onto the sheet of linoeum.
6. Place your paper over you inked lino design and place in the albion press to print the lino design onto the paper.

Health and Safety

• Insure you are always cutting away from yourself when using lino cutting tolls. 
• Make sure you watch where your fingers are when using the albion press to stop them from getting caught in it. 

Mark Andrew Webber 

Mark is a lino printing artist. This is why i have looked into his work for this workshop as some of his work is creating typeography maps which is what i have created and reviewed in my sketch book. I like his work and think as he doesn't use alot of colour but when he does he use very little of it in places and I think this makes his working unique and interesting. 

http://markandrewwebber.com/?category=maps

     

Art Movements - Year 1

Art Nouveau - 

This type of art was most popular during 1890-1910. Art Nouveau is considered a "total" art style. This type of art includes fine art, graphic art, interior design and decorative art. This includes things like jewellery, furniture, household silver, etc. Although Art Nouveau was replaced with 20th-century modernist styles, it is now considered as a important translation between the eclectic historic revival styles of the 19th-century and modernism. 

Alphonse Mucha 

Alphonse Mucha was a Czech painter, designer and illustrator commonly associated with the Art Nouveau movement. Although largely forgotten in the annals of decorative art, Mucha is perhaps best known for his

outspoken Slavic nationalism.

Reverie, 1897

Image size:1779 × 1179

Image size:
1167 × 816







Abstract Expressionism - 

Abstract expressionism is a post World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris.

Joan Mitchell 

Joan Mitchell was a "second generation" abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. She was an essential member of the American Abstract expressionist movement, even though much of her career took place in France.

1990
Image size:
449 × 600

Untitled, 1961 
Image size:
873 × 990









Expressionism -

Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas.

Robert Delaunay

Robert Delaunay was a French artist who, with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. His later works were more abstract, reminiscent of Paul Klee.

Rythme n°1, 1938
Image size:
2985 × 2715

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1224 × 1536









Modernism - 

Modernism, in general, includes the activities and creations of those who felt the traditional forms of art, architecture, literature, religious faith, philosophy, social organization, activities of daily life, and even the sciences, were becoming ill-fitted to their tasks and outdated in the new economic, social, and political environment of an emerging fully industrialized world. 

Charles Arnoldi

Charles Arnoldi also known as Chuck Arnoldi and as Charles Arthur Arnoldi is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker.

Fix, 2008

Acrylic on canvas

Image size: 

60 X 42

Vintage, 2013
Oil on linen
Image size:
38 X 32








Urban Art - 

Urban art is a style of art that relates to cities and city life often done by artists who live in or have a passion for city life. In that way urban art combines street art and graffiti and is often used to summarize all visual art forms arising in urban areas, being inspired by urban architecture or thematizing urban live style.

Dolk 

Dolk is known for Norway's most recognized graffiti artist. His motives are often pop-cultural references put into a humoristic or critical context. Dolks works can be seen at walls in cities like Bergan, Berlin, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Oslo, Lisbon, Stockholm, London, Prague and Melbourne. Since 2006 Dolk has stepped into galleries where he has had several exhibitions.

Image size:
1800 X 1116








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1800 X 1158







DADA-

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-grade in the early 20th century. Dada in Zurich, Switzerland, began in 1916, spreading to Berlin shortly thereafter, but the height of New York DADA was the year before, in 1915. The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by Marcel Duchamp around 1913.

Man Ray 

Man Ray was an American artist in Paris whose photograms, objects, drawings, and other works played an important role in Dada, Surrealism, modern photography, and avant-garde art at large.

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1260 X 1600








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2056 X 1645









Surrealism - 

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality." Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself and/or an idea/concept.

Pablo Picasso - 

Picasso dominated European painting in the first half of the last century, and remains perhaps the century's most important, prolifically inventive, and versatile artist. Alongside Georges Braque, he pioneered Cubism. He also made significant contributions to Surrealist painting and media such as collage, welded sculpture, and ceramics.