Melted Clegg

I have now started to use metal plates to do my work on. I looked at a video with Nick Clegg on the internet and printed an image of it from his party conference. I used this image for my metal plate. I have to take more care using it since it would burn the mediums much faster.

I used melted crayons mixed with linseed oil to make this. I found it very interesting of when I melted the layers from the bottom with seep onto the upper layers of paint. I then took this futher and put it into a photo-frame.

Unfortunately  the metal plate wouldn't stay in the frame and kept falling to the bottom. To solve this I used a metal filer to scrape the back part of the metal surface. Then I used glue on the scraped parts and stuck it with the paper. This solved the problem it the metal falling. I then added a text underneath saying 

"Lead Britain forward, while voting Clegg"

This looks more like a prime minister portrait to the ones you see in downing street.

William Hague Propaganda poster

I have gotten an image of the secretary of state William Hague. My idea here would be to use the colouring of the poster to be equivalent to the Apple colour. I also thought that using a high politician to use mass messages to persuade the protesters to go home,. I've also tried to use the text in a comical kind of way.

I also then used Michael Branthwaites advice and took the images to a location to post up. This would make the image become similar to a poster that it would serve its message and fade away. Maybe I could've painted more to this image, but I thought of it as a test. I might try and use screen printing to copy a single image and post them up in multiple locations.

Screen Prints

I have decided to give print making a go since I've managed to do the workshops access to screen prints. The shiney surface worked best for the printings since more detail could be seen through the blue. A good thing about doing screen printing I found was that you could do hundreds of the same image, on different paper. The bad thing about this though is that the colour blue is too strong in this and makes it harder to see. If I were to do this again I should ask the technician if there's anyway to add multicolours to it.

Prints of a section from elephant paper