Experimenting Vase Print Outcome and Artist Research
As part of my process for making Chinese style stencils to use for printing, I decided to do a little research in artists that have done similar methods and styles in printing or painting. I looked at an Artist called Patrick Caufield because he is widely famous for his colourful selection of vases and has given me good ideas towards my ongoing printing process. Although his vase prints are quite bold looking and plain they still have that edge to them making them look almost real but not. I wanted to use more advanced methods in printing to make my vase prints look more real than Patrick Caufield’s vases and I did successfully in my eyes. Another artist I looked at was Bridget Riley for her white, black and colourful straight lines.
As she is a painter and not a printer, I wanted to use similar ideas towards making some nice patterns within my next series of vase prints. I wanted to try and produce a meaning where you see objects through Skype that look real but really they not because all you see is pixels and lines of colours. I wanted to express this meaning in some of my vase prints as I was already working on my vases at the time and thought it would be a different and great idea for me to try accomplish. The next artist I decided to look for was called Romero Britto because he also works on patterns but what’s more, he also paints vases and uses these colourful patterns within his vases.
I thought that this was very good research towards my ongoing process of my printing skills and I want to try continue to perfect my vase prints. After doing research on these three artists, I decided to do some careful planning on Photoshop to see what the outcome of my vase prints look like if I were to print through the vase stencils. I tried the normal Chinese traditional colour of red to make my vase print on Photoshop and I zoomed in to try fill in all the gaps of the vase patterns in red colour. After I had done all this, I then filled in the black part of the pattern in White colour and the result of this experiment made me quite confident to do some vase printing. This is what the result would look like if I printed it and shown above is my real finished vase print that I printed through the roller press.
The pattern Vase is also shown above to show my finished outcome and to compare my ideas from these three artists. I will keep trying to produce more ideas in making more patterns for my vases and also trying to make my vases look more realistic. In relation to indexical traces, these vases present something that I have seen in real life whilst on my travels in China and also through Skyping. These are like a memory trace that I see inside my mind and I always have the desire for owning vase quantities of nice vases but cannot afford them or take them all back to the UK. So I basically try to produce affordable vases by printing them and make them look more real with some interesting patterns on them.
