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Relief Printmaking Abstract Ideas

Abstracted ideas translate well to relief printmaking. Get abstract ideas with expertise from a printmaker in this free printmaking video.

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Here is another example of a sketch that I drew, and you can see it's a fairly small sketch from my sketch book. And I only took one small aspect of this sketch and blew it up to make this print. Concentrating on the negative space and these lines here, and some of the more positive space elements by carving out more of these areas beneath. Just a kiss of all of the action that's going on underneath here, it becomes a very abstractive image. There's some tale tell signs of seeing the image of this soldiers face outlined, and this is actually the javelin from the print. But for me, knowing what this is, is not the important element, for me the contrast of lines and colors are what I was really trying to extrapolate from this drawing. The drawing itself might be a more recognizable image, but what I was trying to get out of it was some of the more unique qualities of print making, it's more the abstract qualities of print making, by using this really deep blue contrasted on this orange, to give a really stark graphic image that isn't necessarily recognizable.

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Relief Printmaking Abstract Ideas

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