one month & this is all I have to show
A smattering of what I’ve accomplished in the past month or so:
New pictures of the print from my last post. Now titled “Family Tree.” You can’t really read it, but the handwritten text in brown is about my relationship (or lack thereof?) with my family. The previous post didn’t have any pictures with the letterpress layer – translucent base on top of everything – so there’s that. It doesn’t photograph very well, unfortunately. I got a call from a woman at MICA about submitting this piece in a show at the Center Club (somewhere near the Inner Harbor?) in January. Exciting!
Snafu, an accordion book I made for my letterpress class. I posted some (digital) mock-ups on flickr a while back (you can find those starting here), so you can see how it progressed. My camera died when I was printing it though, so no layer by layer pictures.
Gloss screenprint layer. Also difficult to photograph. I’m beginning to think it might be a smart idea to invest in a polarizing filter…
More images of the book on flickr.
Some pictures from my graphic design project. We were supposed to design a paper sample/promo booklet for a fictional line of “tree-free” papers. I chose a silk fiber paper that conducted electricity (I don’t think anything like actually exists) and created a promo booklet that mimicked the notebook of Nikola Tesla (if it were colorized and modernized…). I screenprinted all of the paper samples, which in retrospect was rather stupid and time consuming, but whatever. This piece took around eight hours to comp and I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out. The outside is really hard to photograph, so I’ll have to figure something out so I can put this sucker in my portfolio.
That’s all for now. I think I’m going to start posting inspiring works. I’ve got a lot of ideas, but they’re all so disorganized that it’s making it hard for me to produce something solid. Time for more writing, I suppose. It’s a wonder that I sleep at all.
