Melonhead Amy; Art Blogging.: Screen Printing!

Since I`m still trying to bulk up my work and experimentation work for this project... Which is almost over! I`ve been doing a lot of screen printing to mix into other bits of my work.

This week is luckily our last week on this project, and then we can finally move on to the new one! I still can`t think of much to do that will be classed as formal finished work and not experimentation, but luckily for my I`ve had three different silk screens for screen printing! Unfortunately one set of screens still hasn`t been printed and I haven`t taken pictures of the other set that I`ve printed.

The two different prints that you`ll see on this update are a thresholded picture of my lovely boyfriend David and a thresholded image of me and my friend Charlie at prom. I know that it`s a project about mental health and mental health conditions, but one of the main things my physciatrist told me to do was to surround myself with happy memories and happy thoughts of something that may of recently happened, and luckily, I did actually remember that. There`s a wall in my room covered in photos of me and friends and I wanted to incorporate that into my work.

The other sets are of a photoshopped brain design that I did way back in the summer holidays and the other is of two thresholded images, one of a bunch of pill packets and then the other one was a pattern repeat of pills. If I`m smart and remember to take images of the other prints then I`ll probably do another quick update with everything else that I`ve missed in it. I might put it together at the end of this week.

For the backgrounds, I used simple washes of different coloured inks and some strips of different papers, nothing to fancy or anything like that, just some simple screen prints for practice. I have also been doing some 3D work... When it came to my final piece I went straight from 2D/flat work to a huge board that had so much cr*p just thrown onto it that I had randomly come up with. So right now I`m doing some "Final Piece Preparation work" even though I`ve already finished my final piece. So the screen printing is going to work well for layering up the small sample boards and adding more techniques over the top of things.

So at the moment It`s all going well, another teacher and I went through all of my work and tried to find if anything was missing, but some small preparation bits where all that I needed to bump up my grade some more.
I`m seriously looking forward to moving onto the next project, I still want to do it on the Decay of nature, but the teachers have told me not to jump ahead and get an idea as to what I want to do because I don`t even know the project brief yet... If it comes down to it, I`ll hunt around in the teachers cupboards to try and find that god damn Project!

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