Brogan's Blog

Relief Printing  Relief printing is the process of applying ink to a printing block which is then brought in contact with a piece of paper. The block may be made up of many different materials such as wood or linoleum. The material the block is made of effects the grain and texture of the printing. Steps  1. Transfer drawing to block 2. Decide if you are going to create a white line or black line printing 3. Carve the drawing into the block 4. Apply ink to the block 5. Put paper on the block then roll it through the press                                                                                                                               ...

Personal Narrative  It was a long slow eight hour car drive to Winner South Dakota. I looked out the car window as we quickly zipped passed fields full of corn, beans, alfalfa, and tall, bright  sunflowers. In and out of small rural towns only stopping a couple times for gas. The minutes slowly turned to hours and we finally arrived at my grandmas ranch in the dead of night. I got out of the car stretched and immediately  passed out on a fresh set of sheets. I woke up early in the mourning excited for the fun day ahead of me. I yanked my brother out of bed and we ran outside. We were met with a rush of warm fresh air, there was cooling breeze blowing through the trees. Me and my brother started up two four wheelers and started down the long dirt road with wind in our face. We drove up huge hills covered in thick grass. I could see the slow flowing, muddy river and wide open fields full of hay bails. We drove back to the small ranch house then watched the warm orange s...

Process  The first thing I did to the image of my partner was cut him out and remove the background. This way I could put a bright gradient in the background. Then I put a filter on my partner to make him look like he was composed of small dots to give it that retro pop art feel.  I also used paint splatters in the background which gave it another pop of color. that I made four copies of my partner, made color adjustment layers for them, and gave them each a different tint of color. I tried to use several bright colors in my image to replicate the contrasting colors pop artist would use. Inspiration I got most of my inspiration for Warhol because he often drew the same image multiple times in different colors just like how I made copies of my image in different colors. I also got some inspiration for Liechtenstein because I made my partner look like he was made of small dots to give the image an almost comic book like feel.