Third artist research/colour study

For my third and final artist analysis and colour study for this unit I had chosen Julia Manning. She as an artist with a passion for wildlife and nature, one who likes to create pieces surrounding different aspects of the natural world, We were required to chose a print making artist for our last chosen artist, which is what I had done. 

She tends to work with Somerset Printmaking papers and is starting to go into using Japanese papers as well for her prints.

She often uses an extremely large press for her collagraphs, collagraphing is a printmaking technique she often uses, this press creates pieces which are 150 cm by 100 cm. She can use this for thick wood cuts all the way to copper etching plates.

Her plates tend to go in and out of ferric chloride, as this helps her to reach the effect she is after.

                          

For the colour study of our printmaking artist, we had a choice of using different mediums instead of printing. I had decided to go with watercolour, as i find it to be the best medium for blending colours along with printing being slightly difficult as I do not necessarily have all equipment required but I do always have paints on hand.