Final Post
Throughout this brief, I have created an inconclusive explorative narrative in art-making. These artworks show the quick movement I have had stemming from just using a scratching tool to make lines. Through this exploration, I have attempted to use all elements and materials around me and have upon response to previous works, built up an ever-growing series of artworks that explore the different ways you can use scratching in the effect of art-making.
The first artwork focuses on the idea of creative resourcefulness, and the alternative impacts a technique can make when approached differently. When scratching into paint on paper, embossment also occurs in the paper which proposes another avenue of art-making that can be taken into account. This artwork is an effect of this process, it is the product of embossment in my scratching made through monoprint.
The second artwork is in response to the monoprint. Instead of the oil-based ink solely being used for monoprint purposes, you could also scratch into the ink and then transfer it onto a different material. This was a purpose to explore the ways scratching can be impacted through using different materials and processes of making, other than only using paint.
The following two artworks are in response to the idea of scratching and removal and also in response to each other. When scratching, removal occurs. In response to the scratching used in monoprints and paint on paper, scratching removes sections of the pigment, wet or dry. These artworks show the exploration of scratching away an image, thus adding to the artwork. These artworks explore the impact that scratching can have when used for specific purposes and intent. The re-introduction of the combination of scratching and oil-based ink was purposeful in the intention to show the bold contrast that one technique can have when used in different ways. It is a representation of the possibilities of techniques when they are repeated and explored in different ways.
This final artwork is the direction I would hope to go if this brief were to be continued. The idea of removing through scratching and then using the scraps created from this technique is full of creative promise. I have many ideas as to how I could continue this work, one most excitingly being to create my own piece of paper using the scraps, and then going in with ink and scratching away at it again.
