Screenprint is fun

No really it is! Terrifying to begin with, there are so many steps to remember, but then you do it once and you're left wondering what you worrying about!

I moved on from cups and started using my passports and ID cards etc to talk about identity.
Here is my almost finished image :

And this is a close up of the green on the top half. I f-ing love this green!

Just a little aside: I can't believe that I am actually allowed to get a degree in this stuff. I know it's only the beginning and I shouldn't be getting too excited just yet and I know there will be hard work too but I just can't believe that I am allowed to go into college everyday and do all of this.

First week of print

So it's the end of my first week of being in print.

'Notions of Identity'

WHO AM I?!

'Are you a mug of tay and two cuts of brown bread or are you a cup of tea and two chocolate biscuits?'

My primary school principal asked me that when I joined Holycross primary school in 1994, after I moved there from London.
Meaning - are you Irish or English? Rascist? Yes obviously but also an amusing way to put the question.

Am I Irish? Or am I English?

I don't know. But I'm going to explore the idea of both.

Oh yeah - and I'll be using screenprint!

The End...

Well the end of electives anyways!
What can I say about painting? I didn't do my best this week and I know thats going to reflect in my marks that I get. But unfortunatly there wasn't much I could do about that as my home life was falling apart around me. Hopefully it will all be sorted this week and I'll be ready to jump into working again next week.
It would be quite ironic if my low marks in Painting brought down my grade so much that I didn't get into Print, seeing as Painting is my second choice thats where I would end up! Heres hoping that doesn't happen.

Heres a photo of my Freud, I found it very difficult but looking at it now I'm quite proud of it. Its a bad copy but an ok painting!

As usual Blogger has decided to upload it sideways but her hair is meant to be at the top of the picture.

I particularly like the way her nose turned out.

And I also realised that I hadn't put up photos of my last few prints that I did so here is one from the 'Clutter' project.

Again it's sideways so just tilt your head to the right!

And this is another one.

Oh for goodness sake! I'm just going to leave them the wrong way round from now on and maybe they will upload properly!!!
The idea, for me, behind this project was to look at the clutter we leave behind us when we're gone. I went to an abandoned house (the door was standing open, I didn't break in!!) and took some photos of the possessions that were still there. It was obvious that an older gentleman had been living alone in the house before it was abandoned and it made me really sad and upset to see his 'things' decaying with no-one to take care of them. It was as if the man himself was there decaying infront of me.
The photos that I ended up using were of a plug socket and of a plastic Holy Mary water font. The wallpaper was torn behind them and the concrete wall showing through. I made about 20ish prints from these two images and I really like them. I know we aren't meant to use the word 'like' when talking about work/art etc but these are the kinds of things that would appeal to me if I saw them on the wall in a gallery or exhibition.

So to sum up the electives - Ceramics was lovely fun, Print was inspiring and energetic, and Painting was enjoyable but terrifying.