Print

Gavin Worth
'And light fell on her face through heavy darkness'.

I finished off my wire drawings of the head and brain. I looked at Alexander Calder and Gavin Worth, both famous for their wire sculptures. Anyway I went ahead with my wire drawings, I got about 6 or 7 layers. I'll upload photos once I'm back in college because they are on my wall. I'm going to ask Kieran for some advice on them next week, about where to go from here. I was thinking of hanging them somewhere because they make really nice shadows.

Alexander Calder

I just played around with
the photo quality here to
 see how it looked.

 I approached Des during the week about starting a print but I wasn't sure how to go about it, so he came up to my studio today and had a look through my work.
 We took all my wire drawings of the head and brain and photocopied them downstairs, layering them up, inverting the colour and moving them around into different positions. They really gave the effect of the X-rays and the MRI's, especially the inverted colour because the wire is white and the background is black. The layering up gave a nice perception of depth in the X-ray. The further away wire drawing blurs quite nicely and the more the wire overlaps and crosses gives deeper and darker lines which gave the drawing great definition.
  I'm going to the print workshop on Monday and I'm going to do a mono print of the photocopies from today.

  When I got home to Galway today, I played around with my photocopier and acetates because I'm not sure we're allowed use acetates on the ones in college. First of all I made multiple copies of my abstract brain matter patterns. It took a whole thingy of ink to paint 6 and it was so tedious sooooo I took a shortcut :) I now have about 20 sheets, so next week I'm going to ask Mike Fox if there is a free window somewhere I can display these sheets to make a stained glass window, like the wire drawings, I think these will create some really sweet shadows.