Evelyn Knighten

Linocut Prints \ Baxter Textile Mill Archives Inspired

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Process sketches
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Final sketch
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Carving process
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Practice prints
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Edition prints
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Monoprints
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 Artist Statement
Evelyn Knighten
Confusion (2020)
3”x3”
Black ink, imprint, watercolor.
My piece consists of ink prints from my stamp on a scrapped piece of paper
with watercolor. I overlapped my prints to create this intricate shape in a previous
piece and thought that it would look good with the watercolor as a the background.
Throughout this art project I used this stamp in many different ways to create
a new shape or form. For this particular piece I used watercolor to provide color and
contrast and placed the print in the center to add emphasis on the design.
My art piece is inspired by the Baxter Mills textiles prints’ shape and my love
for creating new designs and having colorful and interesting background. I chose
the current design because I wanted to experiment with what I could do with just
one stamp. I chose to do watercolor as a background to make the piece more
colorful and interesting to look at. And I feel like I’ve created what I was going for an
interesting piece made out of a very simple stamp idea.
I liked this project very much because it opened my eyes to new ways to
make art . I discovered that you can just take one simple design and turn it into
many different intricate pieces. If we were to do this again I would like to push the
limits further and try a more advanced design and would try to make it neater.
Anyway,I loved the freedom we were given in this project and think that is definitely
in my top 5 favorite art projects. This project was certainly a challenge but I feel that I
have somewhat grown in my experience in art.
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