SCREENPRINTEDMATTERS

SCREENPRINTEDMATTERS in a website whereby you order a packet of hand made screen printed prints as gift cards, scrap book material or whatever you like.

What a neat idea. It's almost impossible not to have left overs when I'm printing. They would make good gifts. I could easily set up a project that involves giving free left overs to my community.

The smallest printing company.

I just had to share The Smallest Printing Company. What a wonderful idea! Wish I had my own. What a great project to take on, give prints out to the public. I would roll my little company down the street and distribute prints to anyone and everyone.

Crit discussion

Every time I have a crit, I like to review my notes and summarize it in a concise manner so that it is easier and clearer for me to see the main points as a whole before I make the next step towards my artistic trajectory.

Observations:
1) Colour- interplay of colour, tonal colour, combination of colours- how they interact with each other, mixing.

2) Printmaking- mirroring image, underlying of transferring images from one surface to another.

3) Transparency- Creates a distance between painting and surface.

Feedback from others:

The work is abstract, and there is a degree of control ( such as deciding where the paint goes). However, there is an element of chance when the layer has been flipped to create a shape merged with the layer behind it, resulting to an 'organic/ natural phenomenon'.

There is a sense of space from the lift.

Reminiscent of brain scans/ psychology tests. What do you see? Ideas surrounding perception (of colour)

It's Playful! ( A recurring adjective towards my work. ) with and element of mark making.

Deconstructing painting. Do I want to explore this territory? ( If so, how far?) Alternatively, I focus on colour and transparency.

Improvements/ Developments:
Possible way of shifting/ moving layers?

Research:
Painting is Modern [Book- ask Andy for publisher or author]
Installation and Experimental Printing by Tala, Alexia.  - See research document.

Mid paper review- responses and feedback

After the crit, I've established that its the translucency and opacity of the wax on foil that is my main focus. I was given great constructive feedback which has made me feel more confident in my direction.

Material Thinking & Drawing Strategies

First initial notes

I'm starting to pick out and highlight drawing strategies to drive my work to it's final stage. It is important that I let the materials ( wax and foil) drive the artwork.

The Accumulation, Repetition and Systematic is what I am focusing on in creating my next body of work. I'm currently cutting out same sized bits of foil, crunching it or half crunching it, and dipping it into the wax before letting it settle. There is a sense of provisionality through the making of this work as I do not know how it will turn out.  Installing the work will play an essential role toward how my work will be received. My options are still open so for now, it's al about cranking the work!

Philosophy & Graphics + Philographics by Genís Carreras

 For quite a while now, I've been drawn to Genís Carreras's Philographics, where he combines philosophy and his graphic talents in order to produce simplistic designs- normally using geometric shapes. Now I'm no graphic designer but I enjoy the shapes, colours and how he's taken more complex ideologies and simplified it into an info-graphic.

In the first simester, I was working with a straightforward, dotted pattern which grew to be more complex when I added more layers of different sized polka dotted patterns. Seeing Philographics has sparked some new patterns shapes for me to print.

Here's more about his work.Genis Carrera's Philographics

Also, I'm still interested in materials that are transparent and reflective. This time around, instead of working with plastic, I'm aiming to work with perspex, mirrors and possibly glass if I can get my hands on it!

Workbook notes.

I thought it would be a good idea to share some pages from my workbook/ visual diary. Below are some early pages that I had done at the beginning of the year. I'm a bit torn between dedicating all of my notes to this blog or to m workbook. They both offer different pros and cons.

This is how I started my second year. Thinking about what I'm interested in and how I could carry my thoughts further.

Made some work and wrote what I found successful.

Picking out themes and more ideas...

Notes from a colour talk in studio.