Found this by chance......interesting after I'd been looking into my family history..
The hammer and pick = The hammer and pick, rarely referred to as hammer and chisel, is a symbol of mining, often used in heraldry. It can indicate mining, mines (especially on maps or in cartography), or miners, and is also borne as a charge in the coats of arms of mining towns.
The hammer and sickle (☭) or sickle and hammer (Russian: Серп и молот) is a Communist symbol that was conceived during the Russian Revolution. At the time of creation, the hammer stood for industrial labourers and the sickle for the peasantry; combined they stood for the worker-peasant alliance for socialism and against reactionary movements and foreign intervention.
Andy Warhol Hammer and sickle
After seeing these pictures I felt a pull towards this more.... Our topic Tool Aid is a bit of an open book when it comes to assessment but with only 5 hours from start to finish to complete a work/example of an idea. My lecturer told me that a screen print would be impossible.
I felt disappointed by this as I woke up early this morning with excitement to finally learn screen printing and the processes!
I did think that the images I'd seen in Warhol's work were similar to mono printing......
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| upside down bike I'd done |
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| Picasso inspired mono |
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| My Picasso inspired mono |
I have done mono printing before so I was confident to throw myself into this again.....I was looking to get texture, depth, shape, shadow and colour into my work.
I'm not sure how Warhol got the image of the hammer to look like an xray photo... I do like how it looks over exposure and skeleton like. The shadows do look like a mono print rubbing. the red looks to me like an opaque paint against the rest. Also somewhat smudged in area's with blacken highlights.
I think that an image/picture of tools set out like Warhol's could work as a poster, front of a catalogue for a hardware store, print for textiles creations, logo for t-shirts and many more things.
I first drew just plain tools on news print, but soon raced ahead with coloured paper...... It didnt give the same feel as the news print.....
Next I decided to try tissue paper (I knew this would be a risk because of it sticking) It worked however and I was happy with the result.
I played around some more and put together soon tools......Adding coloured paper to show my examples and test texture and findings..
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