Evaluation for Vintage Tech

Evaluation of ‘Vintage Technology’

For out project we had to create 3 panels all 210mm-210mm containing an element of Vintage Technology, I chose to base mine on telephones and how they have changed.

For my fist panel I chose to use the technique of Negative Space because I thought that I can have the best out- come for this panel. The media that I decided to use was black acrylic paint; I chose this because it gives the best effect for what I wanted to produce.  The formal element incorporated in this panel is tone because you have the contrast between black and white. There is a lack of color due to it being in black and white. There isn’t any texture in this panel because it’s a very flat piece of art. I had done a lot of experimentation for this panel like using different media’s and also what part of the phone that should be incorporated in this piece.

In my second panel I have done a Lino Print and that is of a 1990’s Nokia phone that I found on the internet. To create this panel I had to first draw the phone onto Lino with a pencil and to carve out the outline with the carving tools provided. I decided to create a test Lino Print to have something test with and instead of cutting out all of the negative space behind the carved out phone I decided to create these lines with it to give the print some sort of background. By accident the lines happened to be going down so when it came to printing the test ones it gave the phones background a nice effect and some texture. I also decided to carve 2 phones next to each other on the final one. When it came to the final one I used the same techniques that I used in the test one. There is texture in the piece because you can see where the paint has been and some of it not picking up on the paper and it has a nice effect to it. There is also not much color in to as it’s done on white paper with black paint.  I think this one is my strongest panel out of the 3.

My third panel is an Image Transfer and by creating this I got a tea bag and got it wet and washed it all over and then stuck newspaper on then did another wash with the tea bag. To get the images to transfer onto the paper you stick them face down on the paper with transfer gel then when it’s all dried you get some water and peel it off and it leaves the image on the paper. I found this one the trickiest because you need to make sure all the paper is off otherwise it leaves a white mark all over it because of the water, this process is quite tedious. I had done 2 different test pieces for this panel, one with just the tea stain and one with tea stain and newspaper and the one I thought was the most effective was the one with both.  In this panel you have lots of texture because of the newspaper being added and also the roughness of the edges of the images.