Michael Goro

Michael Goro

“continuous creative search for raw authenticity in urban environments and human forms that are constantly changing.”

Michael Goro is an artist that works within printmaking born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He creates etched plates that create an intaglio print. He received a B.A. in Architecture. He later discovered intaglio printmaking in Israel 1990. This is when he began to use this as his main medium. He later completed his education in printmaking at he University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Goro's work can be found in numerous places, both private and public.
He's shared his unique personal experiences through creativity and art.

Looking at Goro's art the mediums he seems to work with is watercolour and intaglio. I find his work extremely inspiring, he's an artist I think links up with Maja Wronska. Both within there watercolour paintings ass significant amount of detail, and using a range of colours.
Focusing on his printmaking he's and artist that influenced me into creating my own architectural intaglio prints, he captures the fine detail and adds effects but working into them with watercolour.

I like that he captures all aspects of the observational values in which he works from. He adds a lot of detail with his prints, including the shaded areas.
When creating my own I chose to use different mediums to show the contrast in the shaded areas. I chose to work with Tage Mahal for my intaglio print, I think the overall design of this landmark is interesting, its whole composition and the overall shapes used makes it original.
I stuch with using only black ink, referring back to Goro's prints, he also tends to stick with a simple colour of ink and adds any wanted tone with paint, which is what I also interpreted in my work.

This print was added with watercolour, I used a blended technique to create shades, adding water to the area, and then applying the paint will create a gradient outcome, youu can build up the tones by doing this in layers, re-applying the paint over and over again to create darker shading.

  

This intaglio print was also used with watercolour, but using a different technique to get a different outcome. I used a brush stroke technique, I first blended the colour, but once it was fully dry I worked into the shaded areas using a fine headed brush and lightly stroking it in a motion to create shape and definition. I think this added a lot more detail, and showed you a visual understanding of how to create different outcomes when working with a range of techniques. 

This piece was watercolour and added pencil, I again used the blending technique and worked into the areas to add shading. I used 3 different shades of brown and a circular motion of the pencil to make it more defined and darker.

This final development of my printmaking sample was printed onto a handmade textured background, i wanted to experiment with whether the texture of the surface would capture as much detail as it does on ordinary watercolour paper.

I think this print actually worked well, i was a bit sceptical at first but the outcome surprised me, I faintly worked in black watercolour to give it a bit of shading, I stuck to one shade and a minimal amount of layers as I didn't want to overpower the print.

I think my work in comparison to Goro's relate in many ways, the techniques and overall mediums used both create in depth art work.

To capture more of the image like Michael's I think working from observation would enhance my view of fine detail.

however I did enjoy the process of creating my work in response to Michael, I think the outcomes were interesting and original.