9 Pages First Colour Prints

I have printed another 8 images (9 pages) first colour prints. Here they are...

I forgot to take a photo of the lino block before I did the 2nd reduction cut so I only have the printed image. This will have red as the second colour.

I forgot to take a photo of the wood block before I did the 2nd reduction cut so I only have the printed image. This will have dark blue as the second colour 

I forgot to take a photo of the wood block so I only have a photo of the printed image. This will have red as the second colour.

This will have red as the second colour.

lino cut

A2 lino cut

I have made the two seperate images a different first colour as I feel the objects need to be coloured appropriately to how they are in real life - This will have red as the second colour

This will have dark blue as the second colour

Lino cut

 

This will have dark blue as second colour

wood cut

wood cut

This will have dark blue as second colour

It's Easter Holidays at the moment so I'm off home for a week or so. I'll spend the time at home, creating my portfolio, CV, image for our end of year catalogue 'Hullabaloo' and getting my business cards and postcards ready for the degree show. Hopefully I will also have some time to continue cutting my prints ready to print when I get back to uni. If I haven't managed any more cuts before I go back. I will have to spend 8 till 8 everyday in the print room to ensure I have time to finish to a good quality. 

10 Pages Finished

I have finished the prints I started a couple of weeks ago - here there are!

2nd reduction cut

Second colour print

 Front Page - Finished image

2nd reduction cut

Second colour Print

Page 1 - Finished Image

2nd reduction cut

2nd colour print

Page 2 - Finished print

2nd reduction cut

2nd colour print

page 3 - finished print

                                                                              

2nd Reduction Cut 

2nd colour print

page 7 and 8 - finished print

2nd reduction cut

2nd colour print

page 11 - finished print

2nd reduction cut

2nd colour print

page 13 - finished print

2nd reduction cut

2nd colour print

Page 14 - Finished Print

2nd colour print

2nd reduction cut

Page 15 - finished print

So far I am really happy with how the images are going. I feel some images are slightly stronger than others but I think each one is of high quality. Just need to keep going and sepnd as much time as possible in the print room!!

Formative Assessment and Finishing off the End of my Book - Completing the Dummy Book

The formative assessment went well, I showed them the first layer prints I had done, initial sketches and unfinished dummy book. I got 'excellent' for every criteria except 'synthesis' (making the project a whole) which I think means not finishing the dummy book yet and not knowing quite how it was going to look. Their comments expressed that I should definitely get the dummy book finished but other than that, just keep going how I am.

After the assessment I started finishing the dummy book straight away. Here are the final compositions and layout of the book. 

(I have not yet completed the final two pages - pg41 and pg42 - of Timothy's feet hanging as I would like my brother to model for me to ensure the last page ends with impact.)

Page 21 and 22 - These two pages explain what Timothy thinks is happening with Geraldine. Which is all a mae up story by Christie.

Page 23 and 24 - Timothy arrives in Wales, he bought Geraldine a Teddy thinking he'd be able to give it to her one day. Timothy's relatives confront him, none of them, not even Timothy know Beryl and Geraldine have been strangled.

Couldn't quite get the tie and rope drawn right so I used a tie and dressing gown rope to help me.

Page 25 and 26 - Timothy goes the the Police station and confesses to disposing of Beryl's body but not killing her, he protects Christie by making up a man in a cafe. The police don't believe Timothy.

Page 27 and 28 - Timothy tells the Police the truth about Christie. The house is searched and Christie questioned but nothing seems unusual about Christie. He had to re-bury one of his previous victims skulls as it had been dug up.

Page 29 and 30 - Beryl and Geraldine's bodies found in the washroom - Beryls in an alcove in the wall wrapped with a green and white checked tablecloth. Geraldine was found in a bundle behind the door.

Page 31 and 32 - Timothy is arrested, when he finds out about Geraldine, he admits to having done it due to  the shock and horror of his baby daughter not being alive..

Page 33 and 34 - Builders questioned but statements changed to ensure a straight forward case.

Page 35 and 36 - Timothy still believes that Christie will tell the truth in court. Christie told lies about every event that led to Beryls death ensuring all the guilt pointed at Timothy.

Page 37 and 38 - Christies past is brought up in court. He is painted as a very trustworthy hardworking man originally fooling the court into believing his past of crime was over.

Page 39 and 40 - The Judge's summing up of the trial incredibly bias towards Christie. The Jury found Timothy Guilty within 40 minutes "beyond all reasonable doubt" 

End page - Kept the back page very simple and factual. Sums up the book and ensures people know Timothy was innocent

I will now carry on cutting and printing my images!

Finishing off the End of my Book - Initial Sketches

Before I go any further with creating the final images, I wanted to ensure I know the length of my book, and how it is going to end so I finished reading the book ' 10 Rillington Place' and watched the film '10 Rillington Place' several more times and wrote all the important points to illustrate and created some initial sketches.

Here are the remaining initial sketches:

This is just after Christie has managed to persuade Timothy to leave London. Timothy arrives at his Aunt and Uncles in Wales and stays there for a few days until they become suspicious of Beryl and Geraldine's whereabouts. They confront Timothy but he storms out.

Timothy eventually makes it to the Police station where he makes up a story about a man at a cafe giving him abortion pills which subsequently killed Beryl. He then disposed of her body down a drain outside the house. He did this to try and cover Christie.

The policemen try to open the drain cover, however it takes three of them with crow bars to open it up and once they do, it's empty. The police tell Timothy they don't believe him and so Timothy tells them the truth about Christie and the baby being in East Acton.

The police visit Christie and search the property. They miss bones and a skull which have been dug up by a dog in the garden - 2 of Christies previous victims. They do, however, find the bodies of Beryl and Geraldine in the wash house.

Timothy is brought to London station where he is charged with the murder of Beryl and Geraldine. The clothes and blankets they were found in were laid out in front of him as his arrest was made. It was the first time he knew that Geraldine had also died so he crumbles and confesses to the murders as he has nothing left.

Builders who were at the house while Timothy supposedly moved the bodies to the wash house stated that nothing was in the wash house when they left. This would've proven that Christie was the one who moved the bodies and would've taken the spotlight away from Timothy. However, the inspector on the case, persuaded the builders to change their statement to fit in with Timothy's confession.

Christie was one of the main witnesses at Timothy's trial. Timothy still believed Christie would help him. But of course Christie did everything in his power to ensure Timothy was found guilty. Christie explained that he had fibrosis in his back at the time of the Murder so it would've been impossible for him to do it, even though, Christie had actually contracted the fibrosis from carrying Beryls body. Christies past was also brought up - his time in the war (where he got gassed - LIES!) and police force painted him as rather an amazing gentlemen. So when the defense tried to bring up convictions of stealing and bodily harm 17 years, the jury didn't receive it well and saw him as a changed man.

The Judges finishing sentence was incredibly prejudice towards Timothy and if the Jury had, had any doubts, those doubts were officially squashed. Timothy was found Guilty within 40 minutes of discussing. The last two pages will be Timothy's feet dangling from the top of the page with some information on his failed appeals etc.

The end page will be a page of text explaining what happened after Timothy's death alongside his gravestone engraving.

In total this book will be 42 pages - 44 including front and end page. This is now ready to show my tutors and explain my plan during our formative (half way) assessment.