Block Print
La Santa Vida
Block Print
30cm x 23cm
September 2019
Exhibition Text
My block print La Santa Vida was inspired by Dutch artist Judith Leyster and her painting of" Madness for Tulip" as well as Alfred Parson "Rosa Damascena rubrotincta" . My biggest inspiration for creating La Santa Vida comes from the idea of Jesus Christ's Crown of Thorns. It signifies Jesus' death by using the flower, Euphoria Mill and its thorns, representing the flowers that were used to make the crown. My art piece is a combination of nature and religion.
Block Print
30cm x 23cm
September 2019
Exhibition Text
My block print La Santa Vida was inspired by Dutch artist Judith Leyster and her painting of" Madness for Tulip" as well as Alfred Parson "Rosa Damascena rubrotincta" . My biggest inspiration for creating La Santa Vida comes from the idea of Jesus Christ's Crown of Thorns. It signifies Jesus' death by using the flower, Euphoria Mill and its thorns, representing the flowers that were used to make the crown. My art piece is a combination of nature and religion.
Planning
Inspiration
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Planning Sketches
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This was my first sketch. I was just doodling a flower because my first theme was Nature. I wanted to see how I was going to shape it and what I wanted to do. I was hoping sketching would help me explore ideas on what I wanted to do with the flowers. In the corners I was debating which type of stems I wanted to use, if open spread out ones with thorns or just thin lines. There are erased marks because, I wanted to see how it would look with repetitive pattern of stems all over but it did not convince me, because to much space would be shown. |
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This was my second sketch, which was an attempt from a tattoo picture I saw.
I starting connecting my religion and naturalism theme in this sketch. Although, once peers would start carving out their block print. I realized carving out the eyes and other facial figures would be a slight more difficult and I didn't want to mess up. Also I wasn't much convince with this sketch but It gave me and idea of I wanted to do.
This sketch was the closet to final product, all that was added was a sun and a crosses on left and right hand side corners. This was to connect to my theme of nature and religion. If you look at this from this point of view you see, a regular flower, with some roots growing out of it. But once the sun and crosses are added, it symbolism's and tells the story of Jesus Crown of Thrown. While if you look at the thrown they sort of go out, showing it goes around the head. The flower was added to because, flowers are what go on top once someone has passed away. Which is where the sun comes in place to represent heaven and that is done by using the crosses to represent Jesus.
Process
Experimentation
These are a few prints that I made throughout the process. The first row consists of the first few prints that I made. I noticed that the water-based ink would not cover my flower completely and that sometimes it would get smudged or ink would get on the frame. I also was able to see that the flower outline camouflaged with the roots. When making my first print, ink usage was good, where it went wrong was ink would get at the bottom of the paper and it was un-centered. In the previous prints, the same would happen so, I would add more ink in, hope the problem would be fixed, it did not. The next prints would come out more faded. I had to wash my metal tray and a brayer to start over again and get fresh water-based ink. After washing my tray, there was still a slight fade but not to an extreme. To fix camouflage of the flower and roots, I carved the outline of the flower, I had to use the v-shape tool to get the thin lines. When doing my experimentation I discovered the V- shape would work best, when carving out the pedals in the flower and getting in between the stems, because it had a small opening and it went in deep. When it came to carving out the larger parts of the block print I used a curled tool.
Process
First: I drew my sketch on a piece of paper that was the same size as my linoleum print.
Second: I cut out my paper to the size of the linoleum print and flipped it over and colored it in with pencil
Third: I tapped my sketch to my block print, so it wouldn't move, and started tracing every detail.
Fourth: After I was done tracing, I started to shade in the parts I was going to carve out
Fifth: I started to choose my tools, and on bigger spaces that were gonna be carved out, I would pass each tool to get an idea of what type of line it would give me, which helped me decide which tool would be used for.
Sixth: I starved carving, the small parts first with the v-shape took because I knew it is more time consuming and for larger parts I used a large curled tool.
Seventh: After my carving was done, I began to roll an even layer of water-based ink on my block but first, I had to prepare the steps
First: I had to grab an ink metal tray, a brayer, newsprint and a barren and the water-based ink.
I laid out the ink on the tray and started to spread it using the brayer until it was even. Then, I took the brayer and rolled it over my block, I went over it several times just to ensure there was enough ink. Finally, I placed paper over it and tried to center best I could and started rubbing and pressing against it using a barren.
Second: I cut out my paper to the size of the linoleum print and flipped it over and colored it in with pencil
Third: I tapped my sketch to my block print, so it wouldn't move, and started tracing every detail.
Fourth: After I was done tracing, I started to shade in the parts I was going to carve out
Fifth: I started to choose my tools, and on bigger spaces that were gonna be carved out, I would pass each tool to get an idea of what type of line it would give me, which helped me decide which tool would be used for.
Sixth: I starved carving, the small parts first with the v-shape took because I knew it is more time consuming and for larger parts I used a large curled tool.
Seventh: After my carving was done, I began to roll an even layer of water-based ink on my block but first, I had to prepare the steps
First: I had to grab an ink metal tray, a brayer, newsprint and a barren and the water-based ink.
I laid out the ink on the tray and started to spread it using the brayer until it was even. Then, I took the brayer and rolled it over my block, I went over it several times just to ensure there was enough ink. Finally, I placed paper over it and tried to center best I could and started rubbing and pressing against it using a barren.
Compare and Contrast
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Rosa damascena (1914, Alfred Parson)
In ¨Madness for Tulip " Judith shades in white outlines in the pedals to bring out the flower more and give it more detail. Which I was able to show in my block print by carving out the shading that I applied in my artwork. For, ¨Rose Damascena rubrotincta¨ I also did something similar with the pedals, expect the pedals of the flower are not shaded in but they are open, which was how I decided to do my flower to be able to give and view the details inside the pedal better. I also used repetitive stems with splinter at the bottom of my artwork just like Alfred Parson did, expect he only painted one stem in his artwork. I also included a sun-centered on top of the flower to |
Reflection
I am satisfied with my art piece, I have never worked with ink and I was very nervous because, my classmates are very good drawers and I don´t really have an artistic hand but I have a huge imagination, which was what lead me to do ¨ La Santa Vida¨ The moments of desperation was trying to center my block print on the piece of paper, and getting enough ink to transfer over. I feel I could´ve added more detail to the flower, for example, color, and more patterns. It was very difficult, trying to carve out the small spaces because I felt like I didn´t have a lot of control and sometimes I´d go overboard. Craving out the sun rays was extremely difficult because, I drew them very tiny, and I ended up carving out too much or the wrong part and it didn´t look smooth. Although, because of this I decide to do that same technique all over my board. This gave my board definition and it went well with my theme because of the splinters the stems had. Which was the complete opposite I was going for, I wanted a clean plain white background just like Judith and Alfred artwork but instead got rough detailed background which was perfect!
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Act Responses
Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationships between your inspiration and its effect on your artwork:
I am able to identify the cause-effect relation between my inspiration and its effect upon my artwork by analyzing, the use of a flower upon my block print, and frequent shading Judith used to give detail in her artwork. It is clear, that Judith and Alfred artwork were both focus on a centered detailed flower painting, which is clearly displayed on my artwork along with a religion theme which Judith was totally against.
What is the overall approach (pov) the author (from research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
Alfred Parson displays artwork, but does not go into deep analysis and Judith Leyster point of view regarding Tulip of madness is that tulip bulbs were very popular and expensive. People would waste their lie fortune on a tulip bulb, when people couldn´t afford tulips bulbs it was best to have a painting of them.,inspiring Judith to make her own book of tulips.
What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
My research wasn´t really focused on cultural aspects on Judith and Alfred work. I already knew about Baroque art because that unit was covered in art history, but Baroque was any art, that included drama, music, sculptures, literature and dances.
What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
My central theme of my inspirational research was to combine religion and nature. Is meant to show Jesus Christ crown of thorns, in heaven with the flower similar to Euphorbia milii, which was the flower used to make his crown.
What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
While reading my research, I inferred while looking through Judith artwork is that she paints events that are going on in life. For example, in all her portraits people are always moving, dancing, playing an instruments something is happening in that scene. It goes the same way for ¨Madness of Tulip¨ it is not just a Tulip it is a painting based off an event hat was gong in life where people were willing to pay a lot of money for Tulips and Alfred artwork defined his admiration for nature because he was a garden designer and landscape painter.
I am able to identify the cause-effect relation between my inspiration and its effect upon my artwork by analyzing, the use of a flower upon my block print, and frequent shading Judith used to give detail in her artwork. It is clear, that Judith and Alfred artwork were both focus on a centered detailed flower painting, which is clearly displayed on my artwork along with a religion theme which Judith was totally against.
What is the overall approach (pov) the author (from research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
Alfred Parson displays artwork, but does not go into deep analysis and Judith Leyster point of view regarding Tulip of madness is that tulip bulbs were very popular and expensive. People would waste their lie fortune on a tulip bulb, when people couldn´t afford tulips bulbs it was best to have a painting of them.,inspiring Judith to make her own book of tulips.
What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
My research wasn´t really focused on cultural aspects on Judith and Alfred work. I already knew about Baroque art because that unit was covered in art history, but Baroque was any art, that included drama, music, sculptures, literature and dances.
What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
My central theme of my inspirational research was to combine religion and nature. Is meant to show Jesus Christ crown of thorns, in heaven with the flower similar to Euphorbia milii, which was the flower used to make his crown.
What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
While reading my research, I inferred while looking through Judith artwork is that she paints events that are going on in life. For example, in all her portraits people are always moving, dancing, playing an instruments something is happening in that scene. It goes the same way for ¨Madness of Tulip¨ it is not just a Tulip it is a painting based off an event hat was gong in life where people were willing to pay a lot of money for Tulips and Alfred artwork defined his admiration for nature because he was a garden designer and landscape painter.
Citations
"Alfred Parsons - 24 Artworks - Wikiart.Org". Www.Wikiart.Org, 2019, https://www.wikiart.org/en/alfred-parsons.
"Artist Info". Nga.Gov, 2019, https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1485.html.
"Judith Leyster - 23 Artworks - Wikiart.Org". Www.Wikiart.Org, 2019, https://www.wikiart.org/en/judith-leyster.
"Artist Info". Nga.Gov, 2019, https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1485.html.
"Judith Leyster - 23 Artworks - Wikiart.Org". Www.Wikiart.Org, 2019, https://www.wikiart.org/en/judith-leyster.