Multimedia workshop with Benjamin - DAY3

Benjamin Baccarani is doing a 4-day workshop at the Hangar. 24th November was the third day.

The program for the day was printing. Benjamin started with a demo of how to do prints.

The first exercise was using plexiglass or normal glass. Masking tape was used to show the size of the paper. Then acrylic paint was put directly on the glass.

Using a brayer the paint was spread out on the glass. Instead of a brayer - a sponge roller or paint roller could also be used. Acrylic paint dries really quickly so Benjamin worked fast. I added "retardeur" when I did mine !

Patterns were made in the paint

The paper was pressed hard against the glass - and voila !

The result you can see above.

Benjamin went on to present several other methods. 

The next method was ever so messy. In addition to paint - Benjamin put on a lot of water,

It was very wet - and very messy. Then the paper was put on to make a print.

As Benjamin says - you have absolutely no control - sometimes it is a disaster - and sometimes something really good comes out. Its not so important because you can create dozens of these in no time.

Benjamin also talked about using colour - and about using found objects. Then it was our turn. We all worked hard - and I must say extremely productive.

Here are some examples:

I am not quite sure how this will end up - but as Benjamin said - this will all come in place next session when we make use of what we produced today.

So welcome back to the blog next week.