Been doing some printmaking experiments this weekend for my current Uni project called Language. The brief is to brand/ celebrate/ promote language, my line of thought brought me to Shakespeare and to Shakespeare's use of slang in his works. I then took this further to our own use of slang and symbols and decided upon emoticons and then to explore Shakespeare with emoticons as they in themselves embody emotions and work very well to convey the meaning within Shakespeare's plays.
I experimented with lino printing and mono printing using emoticons and a blocky aesthetic and generally getting very messy in the process!
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Cutting out the lino.
Mono print of a block of emoticons to showcase Shakespeare Macbeth and a large print of the heart emoticons.
I then got inspired to go back to my sixth form art days to do a drawn monoprint from a photo, pretty happy with the results considering I haven't done this in about 4 years.
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