mood board

(and my sticky mat) I expected my mood board to change; but it didn’t really. Most of my art is graphic, bright, happy and based on the coastal environment. I work a lot in red. The odemin & kagagi (strawberry & crow) are culturally important to me. I added the textiles and the pop bottle…

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Completely blew the first go

I completely blew the first go of my multiple layer print. Just had to share before I did it all again. I completely forgot the registration marks. My black outline was way to thick with the China marker, and I missed printing some of the mane. I wanted to have the top part of the…

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Mid-Week Reflection

Mood Board I just wanted to share with you that I; the tech dinosaur, found a website that was easy to use to create a Mood Board. I will probably make a physical one also. The website is called Milanote. I think I am going to use it quite a bit for projects etc. Here’s…

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Reflection Week Four

Exposure and Half Tones Unfortunately I don’t have any photos of my step exposure process. I did take notes, and I used my results to expose a screen with my hand drawn image, hoping my pointillism would give some half tones. I haven’t printed it yet, but the image looks good after rinsing. My light…

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Week Three Reflection

Reclaiming & Printing on Textile I had some practice reclaiming in week two due to my humidity problem. I learned this week that I should at least wet my screen while I am doing my clean up. I think I had a bit of ink dry as I cleaned my palette knife and my squeegee…

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week two reflection

Collage/exposure/printing well……this was a HUGE adventure/disaster and learning curve for me. I coated my screen, put them it a dark box and and did my first exposure. When I went to rinse, all the emulsion came off too, except for a couple of spots. I ended up reclaiming. SO on my second and third tries…

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Week One Reflection

I was pretty excited to pull my first prints ! So much for Blue Monday ! They turned out really great, and I am very much looking forward to the remainder of our lessons. A little peek at my incredibly small and quite messy studio. I am fortunate to have the natural light, and a…

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