Jacek Ambroszczyk is a Linocut and experimental artist. He has always been fascinated by the idea of realism in art, and since he has started working with lino, Jacek has been trying to transfer this idea to the medium.
Recently, Jacek has been experimenting with animation combined with the process of printmaking, such as light reactive art using screen printing, and double exposure 3D effects. However, he has been most excited by the idea of creating a photorealistic lino print, making it seem as though the image moves without the use of any technology. He tells us; “The idea of my Halftone Reductive Lino technique seemed best to consider using while working on this idea, since when researching this technique most of the created animations were made using lines. This sparked an idea in my head and allowed me to experiment with the designs and attributes to create a plan which would seem like a possibility for lino.”
To create this animation effect, Jacek converted 3 images of his own eye into halftone in Photoshop. He then created a grid appropriate for 3 frames which he has used to cut up the created images and later merge into one print. Once he had the whole image planned, Jacek transferred the design onto lino using tracing paper and later carved out it out by hand. He then printed out the pre-prepared barrier grid onto acetate and used it with the finished linocut print to allow for the 3 images to work from the one image.
“Working on this technique has allowed me to have a better understanding on the process of the old school animation, as well as give me an idea on how I can add the realism approach to this old technique, while at the same time making the piece hand made. All the researched Barrier Grid Animations have been either simple figures drawn/painted by hand or printed designs from the computer. I feel that my experiments could really contribute to the idea of lino printing and allow more and more artists to feel that lino printing has a lot of space to experiment and develop, even though it is an old technique.”
Jacek initially produced the design in A4 size in order to test out the technique. After the success of his first experiment he hopes to push the technique even further and work in a larger size.
Watch the animation here.
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