Assassin Versus The World. (Plexiglas Etching)

Hello my favourite readers, you! In the past few weeks, I and my CyberARTs class have been working on art pieces, based upon the Romantic time period. We were asked to create a Dry-Point print or create a collage that showed this art style. Romanticism showed medieval characteristics, high contrast, dramatic scenes, untamed natures, mythology, heroic figures, light and shadow and many other interesting points.


I created a dry-point print. What we had to do was take a Plexiglas sheet, compass point, and etch like crazy. My idea was to have a single man facing an army of men coming to overtake his country. This idea was born after a long, long thinking process.

The main idea is an Assassin quietly waiting for the Nights Templar to get close enough for him to start battle. The Nights Templar are an ancient group, and assassins just as old. My original idea for this piece was a modern Assassin and a single modern Templar to be doing battle. However, this would not be seen as heroic, or medieval or any of the qualities I want to see in my Assassin.

The hardest part of this entire piece was the tiny, little, Templar heads!! There were a horrendous amount of tiny little circles I had to do, each measuring about 1mm across or smaller. There were a total of, approximately 115 - 120 little Templar heads.




I was very satisfied- after I figured out the printing press- with the finished product of this Etching. After I etched, I filled in the grooves (intaglio!) with water-soluble inks. Red for the Knights Templar flags, and a casual, calm black for the Assassin.

I loved doing this project. It was great to get into another unfamiliar media, and work with it and the print press. Favourite over all thing about this project...? I don't know, really. It came out exactly as I wanted it to, and though while I am sure that if I had enough time I would have created more prints... Four only made ever in the entire world.... That's pretty cool, you know? :)

Below is the total finished project!




Love, Hugs and Assassins,
The Night Angel