Not feeling very well right now, so I’ll have to keep it short, but I wanted to post something because I’m a little bit behind.
Started working on mock ups for screenprints. Here’s the progression of the computer mock up:
Started out with a more bold halftone photograph, scrapped that – wasn’t working very well. The image became overpowering. Decided to start working on just an abstract image. Somehow the photo came back – softer, more of a background image. I don’t feel like it’s quite done yet, but I’m not sure if adding any more layers is going to make it too cluttered. I’ll have to figure that out later because I am going to bed. Hopefully I’ll feel better tomorrow.
Finished my mock up today, printed transparencies, and burned a couple of screens. I’ve got to mix inks, tear and prep my paper and I’ll be good to go. Now, I should probably sleep.
More sketches:
Didn’t do a whole lot today. Snowed a bit in Tulsa and with the combined holiday traffic, I decided the best course of action would be to avoid driving. Stayed in, worked on a few gifts (still need to do holiday baking!), sketching, cleaning. Tomorrow there will be some last minute shopping (bleh) and hopefully meeting up with Jason and Tristan and/or Mols, Monday will be a pilgrimage to IKEA in Dallas (frames &c, kitchen things for the rents). If I don’t get to posting, Happy Holidays everyone!
Just made this film last night. Spent two hours painting over an old Cingular network map. I have no idea why I was so detailed with it, because it’s not entirely necessary. It was kind of soothing and at least now it’ll be really convincing. Anyway, the print is for an exchange called Love + Misplacement. It’s about long distance relationships and is tentatively called “It’s All Downhill From Here” (haha, I crack myself up). There are five more layers (three text layers, background, an image in gloss). I’m really excited to print this, but I don’t know when I’m going to. I’m really glad that process is so calming to me.
A page from a book that I’m making for Letterpress. The assignment is actually a xerox book (a way for us to focus more on concept rather than technique), so I’m spending more time considering all of the pages rather than running around trying to print them on time. This is only two pages out of 64 (sixty-four!). I’m about half-way done right now. I’m working with the idea of discomfort and how much information I choose to reveal about myself. I am creating maps of what is revealed versus what is covered up – perhaps an abstract method of calculating my discomfort? I’ve written so many pages about this and yet I don’t feel like I completely explain it. Scatterbrained.
From the sketchbook, collage sketches. Thinking about the xerox book.
Two sketchbooks for two separate projects. Inevitably, I will come up with ideas for a completely different project than the one I’m brainstorming for. Keeps it organized this way.
My desk, which is very small.
There aren’t very many weeks left in the semester, which seems so strange because it still feels like we’re just beginning. Next thing I know, I’ll have graduated and I won’t know what to do with myself! It always works out in the end, but this transition period is pretty awful.
Watching the VMAs is a completely different experience when you don’t know who half of the people are and you don’t know what the “it” songs are. Alright, so I’m not even really watching. I’m just procrastinating with the TV on at a low volume, my laptop open to Google Reader and my sketchbook at a blank page.
I feel very obligated to work on my graphic design homework (it’s due first), but I’m much more invested and interested in my lino cut for Intaglio/Relief. I drew out a sketch yesterday and I’m getting excited about it. I have a feeling it will look better as an etching or, really, anything that has a wider range of tones. But my assignment is to do a lino cut and I’d like to start on the concept that I’ve been developing.
I feel like I should be doing more.
