PRINT ASSIGNMENTS

Your portfolio prints should include the following five photo manipulations.  You may combine several manipulations or address each requirement separately in your prints.

1. Make a print where you integrate mark/line/stroke with a photographic image.

Aesthetic considerations:  How do you reconcile the fine detail and realism of the photograph with the abstract element of a mark so that they work together conceptually and formally?  Does the mark emerge from the photo?  Does it “float” on top of or outline portions of the photographic image?  Pay attention to the scale of the mark, its texture (medium,) and its character.

2. Make a print where you cut up photographic image/s and put them back together in a new way.

Aesthetic considerations:  How can you make formal and conceptual sense out of the fragments?  As you put the pieces together, do the parts relate?  merge? contrast? play of off each other?  What about the cut /torn edges?

3. Make a print where you layer photographic images.

Aesthetic considerations:  What happens when you merge images as opposed to presenting those images side-by-side?  Consider formal and conceptual depth and ambiguity. 

4. Make a print where you use the technical features of the photocopier to manipulate a photographic image.

Aesthetic considerations: How do you use scale, positive-negative images, repetition, contrast and tone, blurring, and/or graininess without becoming gimmicky?

5. Make a monoprint using a photographic image where you introduce color by

1. overprinting with monotype and pronto plate.
2. two color pronto plates

or c. working directly on the printed image with watercolor, colored pencils, etc.

Aesthetic considerations:  How can you use a painterly medium and color with a photographic image and make it work?