This week is feeling a lot more normal than the previous ones have. I'm back to a lot of sketching and drawing, and this week I'm gearing up for some screen printing. I've tried some test prints with the woodblock and I really, really hated it. I don't even want to do a larger block. It feels like I wasted all those hours carving and then all that time trying to get the print right. But it's not a waste if you learn what NOT to do, right?
Which means I need to consider what I'll be doing for the rest of the week. And that's defiantly screen printing. I prepped a screen and I'm just trying to finalize and pick a design. Choices, choices. I think I'm going to go with "Punk-erina". You'll see what that is eventually, I don't like posting my designs online.
All told, the hours break down so far this week is:
Studio: 4.5 hours
Blogging/Reflection: Three quarters of an hour
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Exploring Marks
This week has been all about exploring marks making in both tried and true methods of printing as well as new techniques. I have done a lot of drawing this week, so I took a break from it with more drawing for this class. Or rather I did a different type of drawing, which counted as a break to me. I have a stack of prints that I have been working back into to add dimension and a sense of activating the prints. My methodology for doing this has been to use pastels and charcoal to give a richness to the prints that they do not have when they are just a single flat color. I wonder if adding multiple colors in the printing method would change that and will have to try it to see if this works for me.
I think that it could be interesting to put multiple colors in one printing process for me. It has a personal connection with my interest in comic book processes. While the printing process has changed for them over the years, the benday dot printing method sees to resonate with this kind of idea, I'm going to investigate it further I think.
Studio time (various locations): 7 hours
Blog time (including research): 3 hours
(One of these days I will remember to click post before I close the tab. This was supposed to be posted on Thursday.)
I think that it could be interesting to put multiple colors in one printing process for me. It has a personal connection with my interest in comic book processes. While the printing process has changed for them over the years, the benday dot printing method sees to resonate with this kind of idea, I'm going to investigate it further I think.
Studio time (various locations): 7 hours
Blog time (including research): 3 hours
(One of these days I will remember to click post before I close the tab. This was supposed to be posted on Thursday.)
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