Making Art
: Rainy Day – Monotype Print
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In keeping with the narrative, this figure strains against the rain with flapping coat and bent legs. Interestingly, the umbrella retains a sedate vertical alignment! The majority of the space of the print is given over to randomised rain gestures and there is little attempt to develop detail or refine the figure. Although there are three kinds of mark making used, the fine lines on the figure are almost lost in relation to the heavy border and similar marks in the rain. Pressure of the mark making tools has been explored but not used very extensively for varied effects.
 
Finger prints and bold crayon marks have successfully been employed to produce this happy family group with umbrellas. The impact of bad weather is not reflected in the figures' posture or clothing, with the possible exception of gumboots. There is little differentiation between the figures. The picture has been elaborated by repeating a symbolic figure rather than developing the context of the story. There is evidence of control of the media to produce a crisp bold image.
 
A smiling figure walks sedately forward while his hair blows vertically and umbrella inverts in response to swirling up-drafts. The context is explored with guttering, drains, footpaths and an adjoining building. Heavy rain textures create an evenly spaced diagonal pattern. A weakness in the handling of the media is that all marks are given equal emphasis and produced with heavy pressure from a crayon. The drawing becomes lost in detailed patterning with insufficient contrast to provide dramatic focus. There is considerable thought in the selection of schema and textures appropriate to the narrative.
 
This is an immaculately produced print with one main type of crisp line and contrasting heavy border. The print includes all the elements of the narrative without the drama. By selecting schema carefully aligned to the vertical or horizontal, there is no feeling of movement possible. The symmetry of frontal organisation makes the static quality even more emphatic. The more random graphic effects of print-making have been avoided possibly because they felt messy. The student is in control of the media, although the potential of the process is not fully explored.
 
Huddled rain-coated figures shelter under a shared umbrella. The figures are differentiated from each other. The rain pelts in strongly contrasting gestures that do not compete with the crisp line of the umbrella and figures. The strong central organisation prevents further exploration of the context or establishing drama or direction. There is little attempt to elaborate the narrative or forms.
 
Hair blows, the figure bends, while rooted to the ground dressed in x-ray gumboots. The rain falls in three well-formed vertical droplets while an umbrella tugs in yet another direction. The variety of directions tends to create a charming interest at the expense of a coherent narrative, as if each part of the drawing has its own independent world. There is a variety of mark-making for both pattern and form which shows control and exploration of the media.
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