Doesn't presenting the same image in a different medium change the atmosphere? In January 2013 our brief at Camp Creative was to choose an artist and a subject of our own and to connect the two: not to make a slavish copy but to use the artist's style as a springboard and to see where it took us. We had a lot of Impressionists in the class, especially Cezannes. I was taken by Matisse's simplification and his pattern motifs, especially as I'd read that he used to work towards them on top of skilful representational paintings. I took along a collage of photographs from my visit to Bali last year; I thought I could assemble them onto a patterned canvas. My work is not finished so I'm only showing a detail. I can see that Matisse encouraged me to simplify and to crowd my composition, but I'm not certain that his influence is obvious.
In March 2013 I had my first experience of solar etching. The process is like sunbaking. You cover the parts on a photopolymer plate that you don't want to burn with absolutely anything at all. Those parts become the raised surface of the plate, from which you can print hundreds of copies. I drew my Balinese guardian onto a transparent plastic sheet with a greasy crayon, clamped that to the plate, then put them in the sun for 45 seconds. After a couple of minutes of washing and drying I was able to print. That simple!
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