Printmaking is my painters brush and art is how I explore and question what is happening in my everyday life. Sometimes the print subject can be serious and thoughtful, and other times it is just playful. I like to represent ideas in my art. The print “Love Thy Bum” is meant to be playful, where as the print “The Whisper” is meant to be serious and questioning.
Although when you are going out for an evening and you discover all your summer cloths no longer fit you; that felt serious. It is serious how the media represents the female body as being thin, and thinner. The print “Love Thy Bum” is meant to be light-hearted. However, the positioning of the figures arms with mittens is my why of saying Stupid Puppet! Why am I worried about what others think I should look like? As regards to the lacing in the image; it is meant to represent the old fashion lacing in of the Victorian waistline The big bow is meant to represent a female package all wrapped up nice and pretty. Smile, so I can’t walk on water.
I choose “The Whisper” as a visual comparison, because it is not meant in any why to be taken light-hearted. It is one of my favourites for expressing the visual question about Who are we listening to spiritually? What happens to our innocence of thought and deeds? Personally I think children are listening to Angels until adults corrupt their hearing.
As for the technical side of how I am going to print “Love Thy Bum” it is going to be printed as a wood-subtraction background and when all the background is cut away I am going to print the image as a woodcut.
Happy Summer Printing
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