Evaulation - Print Making

Evaluation – Print Making

First, Although I found it difficult to find out about what I needed to do for my Printmaking Project, but then I found it clear that I had to produce a range of design ideas based on different prints linked to the Bank of China, which inspired me to get pictures of different people who represented China as a settled country for example: I created my own design on lino using Bruce lee, I also created my own design on lino using Pat Morita and a another lino cut with anime cartoon characters I picked out, which I combined with the Bauhaus building. For my final piece, I put together two of my best lino prints, and then I produce a 'nearest neighbour' print that leads the two prints printing one after the other.

My first thoughts on receiving this assignment brief were quite boring in my opinion. This is because I was given a task to create my own version of a Bank of China logo, which is really being creative in terms of getting to do a lot of fun, this is because for more than one print design idea that I was inspired by Brenda Hartill. Her work in my opinion is really dynamic, the reason is that she uses a wide range of different media. To be honest, the designs wasn't as great as I thought it would be. I had to create a wide range of Prints ideas. I collected some information from different artistic views and I put it in my own words. Some of the researches I took for e.g. Brenda Hartill print making designs were quite dynamic; the media that he uses is developing wax and paint, the prints that he creates whilst she uses paint is quite astonishing.

I found that seeking and handling the information was quite difficult because when I needed to find the specific information for each one especially from Brenda Hartill, Her work explores the texture, pattern and light of the landscape, and ranges from finely drawn figurative works to bold, heavily embossed abstract images. For the past 10 years she has been most interested in drawing abstract imagery from the landscape, rugged mountain erosion, structure of the land and the dynamics of plant growth. 

She is becoming increasingly interested in painting, creating a series of embossed watercolour paintings, as well as her mixed-media collage paintings using oil paint and encaustic wax.  Her recent work includes a series of unique mono-prints, in muted colours, and black and white, and there is a strong element of embossing in the latest prints.        

To be honest, before I didn't think my designs would be high quality, but then at the end, I was more than satisfied with some of my designs which I put more quality into. On the other hand, I do feel that I could have improve some of my work to a high standard like improving every single mistake that I have committed on my Print Making final piece, I spent a lot of time mixing my own colours together to make on unique A1 canvas piece, especially with the Gold and Blue colours, I some of my work to be a time consuming exercise, even though I particularly enjoyed how the final outcome turned out great. From the experience of making this piece of work I have learnt that perseverance is really important to ensure a high quality outcome.             

Before we started our task, I was finding it difficult to pick my designs because some of them were simply not good enough, then I had to create better new designs for my final piece. I planned out each of my designs and I picked out the best planned out designs which I used for my Print Making project. The techniques, process and materials I use are three primary colours and those three colours to produce secondary and tertiary colours by print ink which I used to paint my own Bank of China Logo.

I think during my time at GCSE level, it was much easier because if you didn't understand what you needed to do, you will be provided with a lot of help from your teachers to assist you. However, at the moment BTEC Art and design Level 3, it's much harder because there is a lot more work given to you by more than one teacher, mostly I have to work independently on my assignment.