Event Title
Combing Printmaking Process with Ceramic Materials
Location
CSU 201
Start Date
4-4-2011 9:00 AM
End Date
4-4-2011 10:30 AM
Student's Major
Art
Student's College
Arts and Humanities
Mentor's Name
Todd Schanafelt
Mentor's Department
Art
Mentor's College
Arts and Humanities
Description
The Ceramic and Printmaking disciplines are two highly process and technically oriented fields that require a solid foundation and knowledge of fundamental skills. Ceramics and Printmaking both have histories rooted in tradition. However advancements in digital media technologies are rapidly being integrated into fine arts practices and the computer is becoming a powerful tool in the fine arts realm. By utilizing the computer to create and manipulate imagery, I have been able to use serigraphy, intaglio, and lithography techniques, in combination with inks mixed using ceramic colorants as pigments to transfer imagery to ceramic forms.
Each printmaking process requires a different type of ceramic pigment, transfer method, and firing temp and in turn they all lend themselves to different applications and yield different results. Through the exploration of ceramic pigments, ink binders, and transfer papers, and firing methods I was able to successfully achieve and determine the optimal approaches and applications for each technique and medium and successfully integrate digital media into my ceramic and printmaking studio practices. The successful incorporation of graphic two-dimensional imagery on a ceramic surface has enabled me to pursue an interdisciplinary approach to my fine arts practice as well as cohesively utilize digital media as a tool in the Ceramics and Printmaking disciplines.
Combing Printmaking Process with Ceramic Materials
CSU 201
The Ceramic and Printmaking disciplines are two highly process and technically oriented fields that require a solid foundation and knowledge of fundamental skills. Ceramics and Printmaking both have histories rooted in tradition. However advancements in digital media technologies are rapidly being integrated into fine arts practices and the computer is becoming a powerful tool in the fine arts realm. By utilizing the computer to create and manipulate imagery, I have been able to use serigraphy, intaglio, and lithography techniques, in combination with inks mixed using ceramic colorants as pigments to transfer imagery to ceramic forms.
Each printmaking process requires a different type of ceramic pigment, transfer method, and firing temp and in turn they all lend themselves to different applications and yield different results. Through the exploration of ceramic pigments, ink binders, and transfer papers, and firing methods I was able to successfully achieve and determine the optimal approaches and applications for each technique and medium and successfully integrate digital media into my ceramic and printmaking studio practices. The successful incorporation of graphic two-dimensional imagery on a ceramic surface has enabled me to pursue an interdisciplinary approach to my fine arts practice as well as cohesively utilize digital media as a tool in the Ceramics and Printmaking disciplines.
Recommended Citation
Klimesh, Colin J.. "Combing Printmaking Process with Ceramic Materials." Undergraduate Research Symposium, Mankato, MN, April 4, 2011.
https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/urs/2011/oral-session-01/3
