Print Contemporary Practice
Jack Cummins
Fading Faces
For my project I selected to use portraits/faces as my main subject. The main techniques used to accomplish finished prints in this project have been Woodblock/lino, Screen-print, digital printing, and painting.
The initial aim of my project was to design portraits of my favourite faces incorporating illusions into these designs. I began experimenting with many styles and techniques, experiments included perspective illusion, aging of the subject, illusion using lighting and RGB colour separation and digitally creating designs. My intention for the degree show was to create a body of work that would warp with the direction in which it is viewed as well as morphing imagery that reacted to the lighting that would change between the RGB colour palette.
Although as my work has evolved with the current circumstances, my more recent works/designs have simplified. In my recent works, I have created a series of 5 paintings of close family members. The main conceptual framework of the reference imagery was of memories. Each painting was complete with a greyscale colour palette in posturized styles. Each image in this series is created as if it was for screen-print but have been completed using acrylic paints and brush. These are designed to look like old-style photographs to represent the movement of time and therefore the fading of memories.