V2 Rocket Engine

Initial investigation of the V2 Rocket Engine;

When we was given this project and the brief  "Industrial objects for non-industrial people" I had a really hard time trying to understand what we were actually meant to do, my initial response was to start researching the V2 Rocket Engine and this is what I found;

"This rocket engine powered Germany's V-2 "Vengeance Weapon" during World War II. The engine was a technical achievement, using high-speed pumps to move large volumes of fuel into the thrust chamber very quickly. Its design also contributed to American rocketry following WWII"

Rusty line up of v2 Rocket Engine body base

     

           Simple diagram explaining and showing parts of the V2 rocket engine.

This image is from the USA space center, it has brief information surrounding a life size scale of the rocket engine, Including when it and where it was constructed in Germany as mentioned in the above picture.

Initial drawings;

 Initial first drawing done in the first half of the drawing work shop, I feel this image is really 'clumsy' with the quality of line and I feel that the lines, are personally all over the place and not very 'tidy' even after refinement I eel this image is unsuccessful, however, I do like how the background pulls the image off the paper.
                                     

This is my second drawing created in the second half of the session, I like this image much more than my previous drawing, here I have experimented more, as you can see I have flipped the image upside down in a sort of mirror image, I have also varied the quality of line.

With this image I have just played with simple effects; this one is a simple black and white focal point, in which the whole image is black and white apart from the main focal [point which you can select manually.

Collagraphs;

First collagraph turned out rather light, in order to correct this I added more ink to the colloagraph and I also added another 'blanket' on to the bed of the press before pressing the image.

These three images all show my collagraph after I had cut the actual shape out from the card i had drew it onto, once again the first image is lighter so I repeated the same process of adding more ink and using a second 'blanket' on the press.

 The third image shown above has been produced using grey/charcoal coloured ink- 

I did the third by mixing a white and black ink together, I had hoped the ink would have turned out lighter, so you could see the actual grey colour however, I did not remove the second blanket and I also didn't clean the remaining residue from my previous prints.

Further printing using inked metal sheets;

These print were created my drawing straight onto an inked piece of metal, the photograph displayed to the left was my first attempt, the image is slightly lighter than the second image displayed to the right.