A Study In Printmaking

1. Describe the overall composition of your artwork (balance, unity, rhythm and movement). 
 The composition is all right, it's sorta balanced. It's got a lot of textures in it, but it also has a lot of blank space. There is little rhythm, but the patterns in the feathers are all the same and the patterns in the peacock's body is the same. There is no movement, it's stationary.

2. How did you add texture and contrast to your print? Is this important? Why? 
You added textures by cutting out parts, and every part you'd cut out wouldn't catch the ink, so whatever you left is what showed up colored on the paper. It's important to add texture but not add so much that it hurts to look at, but you needed to add enough to differentiate between parts. Without texture, the print wouldn't work, because the texture (the bits you left/cut out) formed the picture.
 
3. Explain how you used positive and negative space to show your image. 
The positive space is the parts you leave in, and the negative is the cut out parts, because the cut out parts define the image's boundaries and patterns and such. Whatever you cut out, wouldn't catch the ink, and formed any patterns and lines in the image, and the parts cut out around the lines made up the solid blocks of color, once it was printed.

4. Describe the craftsmanship of your print. (How good the project is technically crafted) 
It's not very good. The print wasn't in the registration marks, it was crooked or splotchy. On all of them, I think, have smudges on the edges or fingerprints in the print. There was no cut out space to hold it very well by, which messed up the aiming of placing it and the smudges and splotchy parts, where my fingers were.
 
5. Were you able to achieve depth by showing a foreground, middle ground and back- ground? Explain. 
Sort of. I think. The peacock's body was the foreground, the feathers in the middle and any (there wasn't much) blank space in the back was the background. I hope I did a good job with the middle and foregrounds at least, but I think I didn't. You can, however, see a distinction, so whatever.
  
6. Explain your experience with Printmaking. What were the obstacles and advantages? 
Printmaking isn't something I especially enjoy. It's tedious, to cut out the linoleum. It's nerve-wracking to place the inked final copies onto the paper, and I screwed it up on every one of them. Printmaking isn't something I'm good at, it's something I could use more work on, I'm not very experienced.