Relief Printmaking Image Ideas

Video Transcript

"Using your subject matter as an art is a very personal thing. And really depends on what you're interested in what you're trying to relay. For me, I start with sketches that I want to turn into prints. If for example here is a sketch that I made of a statue in Portuna, Italy and the statue itself interests me the lines I created in the sketch interests me and I decided to make this into a print. If I wanted my print to look exactly like my sketch I would be disappointed. I'm using this as a sketch as you would for any other medium, like painting as a basis but they are two separate mediums. So therefore, although I'm starting from this sketch to make it into this block, I'm not going to try and make my block the same thing as my sketch. Although you can see here the image is fairly similar, the areas of dark and light elements in the sketch marks are not going to translate as easily to the wood simply by a deeper impressions as a pencil would. But I can use cross hatching and other elements to make shading areas or I can just use the linear quality of the drawing in and of itself as I did in this particular image I stayed more to making the linear quality of the image itself rather than getting the depth that you see here in the drawing. And from this block of wood the image of my statue is related here."