Here is another wonderful submission for the Quentin Tarantino themed month, from Jim Sammon.
"It is an A3 collograph print, made of layers of card and shellac, printed with intaglio ink. John Jarratt has a cameo role in Django Unchained as an Aussie miner working as an indentured servant to the mining company. We have a teachers Exhibition opening this Friday and I'll put this print in the show"
For this month's theme I wanted to make something that addressed Quinten Tarantino's foot fetish. Have you ever noticed how many shots of feet there are in his films? No? Well there are! I quite like drawing feet too, so I did some ink drawings of a few different feet to start this project. I feel he has a particular affinity for Uma Thurman's feet, which I decided to feature in my print, from the film Kill Bill.
This artwork was a little experiment in moving away from the size number 1 lino cutting tool - and venturing out into cutting tool number 5 - a slightly bigger and chunkier tool. I tried it and I'm not sure I really like it....but at least I tried it! (I know this sounds incredibly pedantic!)
Hope you like, Gillian
The original ink drawing, which I transferred onto the lino surface using eucalyptus oil and the print press...
Uma Thurman's wonderful feet from the scene in the film...
Carving the lino block...
The cutting tools...
The scene from the film. I love this little bit of the film...
Hello, me again. Here is my latest submission, titled 'Resevoir Dogs'. Getting both dogs in the water was a feat in itself as the older one did not like getting wet. I played around with filters on the camera to jake the image more exciting, enjoy. B x
Month 20's theme has been decided as 'Quentin Tarantino'. Why? Well, just because really! I recently re-watched Django and Jackie Brown, and loved watching the films again. It made me think that this man would be a fabulous theme for Art Club, et voila!
As always, anything creative is welcomed and encouraged......drawing/painting/sculpture/film/cooking/drinking/playing/dancing/singing..... Please email photos/links/etc to Chris or myself. Submissions due by the 16th of August.
This submission comes from the fabulous Robert Donnelly - his first submission for Art Club - hooray! Thanks Bobby and welcome to Art Club.
"I decided to join the plight of the bumble bee and do a run of prints, 3 different tones of yellows and greys. I had off cuts of lino that were too wee to use but too big to throw out, so I thought, what's that small that would look good as a lino, a Bee! Each print measures 3.5 x 5 inches."
Yesterday I made my 'Winter' submission which is a portrait of Dave - a lovely friend in Melbourne who is the uncle of even more lovely friends. I think Dave is a terrific human being and for a while I have been wanting to make an artwork using his face. I originally took some photos of Dave way back in 2011 and finally decided to use these photos for this month's theme.
The artwork is a lino print/cut, measuring 30 x 30cm. I started the process by playing around in Photoshop and manipulating the image to have lots of dark shadows. Dave is also wearing a wooly jumper which I also added in Photoshop.
I also attended a workshop at the Silk Cut factory in Highett yesterday, which was ran by the wonderful printmaker, Heather Shimmen. Heather makes lovely layered prints with incredible detail, and was incredibly generous and sharing with ideas and tips for novice printmakers like me. She introduced the class to working on a gesso surface on the lino surface - which I hadn't tried before. Some of the marks on Dave's print are due to the gesso paint brush marks - which I think work really well with this image.
Hope you like (I'm a bit chuffed with how it turned out)!
Gillian x
Cutting the block...
The original photo of Dave....taken way back in 2012! (Yes, it takes me a while to get to working on projects, but I eventually get there!)
