Weird This is one I wanted to post but my old file went up instead.
Monday, October 7, 2013
Hänsel Und Gretel
Just something I worked on during the weekend. I used all my own art. Right now I'm working on the next piece which will be Snow White.
Sunday, October 6, 2013
My weekend of progress.
I wrote the language for my proposal and I started printing my collages.
See Liv Varney page at right for updated proposal and objectives.
On Saturday I scanned one of the collages into the computer and brought it into photoshop. I chose to use one of the smaller 4x4 inch collages that I made recently. I printed two copies of the same image but they were both at different levels of contrast and texture. One of the images was formatted to a full threshold layer (making it look similar to a high contrast photo copy) and the other was formatted to have a halftone texture to it. Once I printed these two images out on paper I was excited to prepare the screen and burn the image into it. I printed a few proofs on canvas and a few on pieces of scrap cotton that I had.
This is what the two images look like before they're burnt into the screen.
After I washed the screen out it provided the two collages next to each other. This is what the screen looks like with the images burnt into it, (ignore the old YFC design on it, it may be hard to see the collages).
I chose to print some proofs today and this is what a few of them came out to look like.
This is what the thresh hold layer looks like when it's printed with black ink.
And this is the halftone layer by itself in red ink.
This is what that layer looks like with the halftone printed on top of it in a different color. I chose red because at the time, I felt that it would show the difference between the two layers. You can see that the red layer is over lapped because the print must have shifted on accident when I put the screen down. It looks kinda trippy.
I decided to play around a bit and print a halftone layer on a threshold print but I rotated it to the left. I thought it looked pretty cool I really like the textures and details that it created.
I think that this was a good start to experimenting with the collages. I'm really happy with how these came out. I plan to spend some day this week burning another collage into a screen of mine and seeing what I can come up with. I also plan to try dying some shirts with fabric dye.
rummaging for growth, objects, and inspiration.
rum·mage
1. search unsystematically and untidily through a mass or receptacle.
Unsystematic is how I'm feeling about this weekend's work. I'm exhausted and nauseated from the smell of boiled down plant matter (really need to get on the out door fire pit) but I'm excited about the dye achievements which i'll bring in for show and tell tomorrow.
John and I transferred briefly about the poetry of the crocheted brick and the possibility of incorporating more unusual found objects rather than practical products... so I went on the hunt. Down at Pavilion beach beside the decaying fish factory is where most of these photos were taken, and i found a few great objects... although i must say i'm a little bit lost on why these things are inspiring to me or how they relate to naturally dyed material but i thought i would explore regardless. Another fun adventure was pruning some Golden Rod from the field behind my house (in the pouring rain), it was hard to find any without a cluster of bees but all in all... it was a success... and the bees were unharmed.
A Collection of Women's Shoes and Their Meanings
This weekend I interviewed some women about the shoes that they wore. I'm going to be talking to more on Monday and assembling a small book about them to have for my review
slide guide text
example of "fun fact"
watershed divide: stream on the north end of avalanche lake directs atlantic bound water via st. lawrence seaway and stream on the south end via hudson river
example of "how to get there"
slide brook north fork
ascend drainage at slide brook lean-to. bear left at split
...
I also practiced binding my big book/I think finalized that layout
And I redid my layout for my mini books to a larger font with less text on each page
I've been thinking about how I'm going to lay everything out more too.
I know I want the shelves to be very simple and painted the same color white as the walls. The lengths are just ideas for now, I need to get everything finished before I finalize what size the shelves are. But I am thinking of having the "h_b_t" as a 3 feet long piece of vinyl and the text on the wall is 100 pt type that runs 12 feet tall (height of walls) and about 4 feet wide. I need to finalize the vinyl ASAP because he needs time to get it printed. 
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