Similarities

Differences

Judging

Anton Raphael Mengs

 This is a portrait of my mentor and painting master Anton Raphael Mengs. I moved to madrid and studied with Anton, but we did not get along.

Web. 5 Apr 2011. <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Mengs.jpg>.

Family crest

This is my family crest. it came from my mothers side of the family and hung in my house growing up.


"goya family crest.." Web. 5 Apr 2011. <http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://rlv.zcache.com/goya_family_crest_postcard-p239423186280191989trdg_400.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.zazzle.com/goya_family_crest_postcard-239423186280191989&usg=__bs9WX087nBfaNnN0wa35wvPdafg=&h=400&w=400&sz=40&hl=en&start=0&zoom=0&tbnid=0TGgM4YGNkfAQM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=124&ei=OrqbTbv5FOKR0QGr77HXAg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgoya%2Bfamily%2Bcrest%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1248%26bih%3D645%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=175&vpy=147&dur=650&hovh=124&hovw=124&tx=41&ty=41&oei=OrqbTbv5FOKR0QGr77HXAg&page=1&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0>.

aquatinted etchings

While rehabilitating from my deafness i decided to try and do something different. I decided on aquatint etching.

etching is a process of taking a plate of wood and using a carving tool to gouge your picture into the wood. (with the positive and negative spaces flipped). Then rolling ink over the panel and pressing the panel into a piece of paper thus giving you a print.

The difference with aquatinting a etching and inking is that instead of using ink you use a alcohol based resin. this resin unlike ink allows slight color variation instead of black on white.


"aquatinted etching." Web. 5 Apr 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Goya-El_sue%C3%B1o_de_la_raz%C3%B3n.jpg>

Deafness

In late 1792 i became incredibly ill. I eventually overcame my sickness at the cost of my hearing. during my recuperation i tried to make some some unique paintings called aquatinted etchings.




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