Element Print
My element is mercury with the atomic number 80. Mercury is used in many objects such as mascara, neon advertising signs and most famously thermostats. Not to get confused the element mercury is a metal that unlike most is liquid at standard temperature conditions. My design is based off the tomb of the first emperor of China. Although more famously known for the terracotta warriors he was buried with to protect him his tomb was also surrounded by rivers flowing mercury on a model of the land he ruled, representative of the rivers in China.
To make my print I started with a sketch. It took multiple tries to get it right but eventually I had a sketch I was proud off on normal paper. Next I transferred the image onto the stencil. In order for the print to come out right I needed to flip the image (letter and number coming out backwards). Then I applied paint to the stencil and pressed it onto paper to create a print. I repeated this multiple times until I had a fair number of prints I was proud of. Once I had prints I used a ruler to rip the image out. I matted 2 of the prints on colored paper. If I did this again I would print more and try to get more good prints. I liked the printing process the most because it was something I had never done before and taught me alot. To take this to a larger scale I could see myself using these techniques or similar ones to print t-shirts in the future.
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