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.

References for Steepletown

Lucifer Print.

Business Card Art

Lucifer

Inspiration

Composition Study

Elvis Depressedly

Inspiration 

Front Sketch

Back Sketch

Proposal

Whether you're walking through the garden of Andy Warhol's Flowers series or taken to the top of Mt. Fuji by Hokusai and his brilliant eye or condemned to the deepest level of Hell or exiled from Heaven by Gustav Doré and his illustration for Dante's Inferno or Paradise Lost; printmaking has a fervent history of beauty, challenge, poise, magic and mere impossibility. Among this exuberant and vast history of printmaking it would be absolutely silly for me to think that the work I create in a singular class in college would ever even hold a candle to this monumental medium. Thus we are left quite empty handed, forever producing endless material toward an art that is quite abundant with beautiful work. Why overload it? So instead I propose responding to it. Not trying to forever produce what has already been accomplished but merely creating a dialogue with the past of printmaking. The devil, steeples and Elvis Presley will all be part of my visual vocabulary. Screen printing my medium.

Time Frame

Week 1-2 Jan 27 - Feb 2

Research and image banking.

Project line up.

• Elvis Depressedly cover
• Steeple Town cover
• Matches case business card design. Print.
• Doré, Lucifer print

Week 3-5 Feb 3 - Feb 23

Screen print methodology research.

Screen for Elvis Depressedly

Print Elvis Depressedly

• Magenta x 5
• Cyan x 5

Week 7-8 Mar 3 - Mar 16

Steeple Town Design

Steeple Town Screen

Print Steeple Town

Week 9-11 March 17 - April 6

Design Business Card for Matches Case

Business Card Screen

Print Business Card x Package amount. 

Week 12-15 April 7 - April 27

Lucifer Screen

Print Lucifer