Dang Squeegees

Well after missing an entire week of work last week (8th-13th), being overly swamped with capstone, senior thesis exhibition work, critiques and work that's due it felt good to get back in the printmaking lab this week. I started by coating the emulsion on the big screen and the small screen for the Lucifer print and the Steeple town print and had a feeling I went too heavy on the emulsion, furthermore I was nervous about the big screen drying and how I was to store it; I eventually used the utility storage room.

Now after running lucifer through the exposure process and rinsing it, lucifer turned out relatively adequate. However the surrounding area is going to have to be filed in certain areas and some bubbles may have to be popped, furthermore I might have to redo the entire thing this weekend.

As for steeple town, I'm definitely going to have to redo it, I coated it too heavily in the emulsion and the whole thing fell apart.  

So first round what did we learn? 1. I'm a failure 2. lighter coats of emulsion on the screens 3. our squeegees might be inadequate for the size I'm working on 4. Never give up. 

Full Print Layout for transparency. 

Scanned and sized Steepletown image.

Shadows

Highlights

Lucifer ready to go!

Steepletown Sketch

Paper Making.