Printmaking / Screen Printing

Screen Printing

On Friday, we began to learn the processes of both printmaking and screen printing. Beginning these processes, I was a bit intimidated when we started. We were given a screen to borrow, which is somewhat easy to ruin with the ink. Being assigned a partner made this process a bit easier, due to all of the meticulous and crucial steps that we can reflect on together. After finalizing the steps with our instructor, we began our own work with our partner. Since the screens were borrowed and not fully created by ourselves, it is not one hundred percent our work, but it was a taster of what we will be able to do. In our final copies of our screen prints, one of our ten prints became warped and malformed from the water used to clean our screens. To me, this was our most ‘personalized’ piece, and in a way I am the most proud of it.

Printmaking

Printmaking I found quite simple in both ways we were taught. The first strategy we learned was to use an oil-based ink and roll it onto an acrylic stencil, and then simply press this stencil onto the paper with the press. The second method we learned was similar, except, we cut out our own stencils from paper, and that was our finished piece once we rolled the ink on.

Reflection

Though I enjoyed both of these workshops, in sound arts I do not see an immediate connection. Of course in my future work, I will not rule out the potential of both of the workshops for myself, but at the moment, going into sound arts, I do not have a strong need for these two.