STENCILS. PRINTMAKING

Okay new workshop, Printmaking.
9am, woken up late, workshop start 9:15am

the day could of started better.
i ran to the fridge grabbe 2pint bottle of milk and ran to millenium square whilst consuming
the calcalicious beverage. i got there 5 mins early. result.
Now
i basically started off by getting my apron on before the tutor did a demonstration of what to do.
i learnt all about printing colours and how it basically was done.

we were using the basic colours CYMK


Cyan
Yellow
Magenta
Black




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK




these are the tools of the trade.

- scissors- a paint brush- a spoon- a knife- a toothbrush- a pencil- roller


- Screen filler- Speedball screen printing inks- Speedball Screen retarder base

Now stage one. We got out the pots of paint containing CYMK we then scraped out the paint and applied it to the glass table we would be then working on to even it out we then got a roller and spread it around until the paint had thinned out.

We then get our asitate kind of paper which is then used to apply rolls of paint on to.
now it doesnt sound interesting at all does it?

Thats were the prep work comes in, we were asked to bring in a stencil before we went in.
Ill produce a photo of the stencil as soon as i can

STENCIL PHOTO HERE (MISSING)

Now after we are satisfied with our printing, we then get a sheet of news paper and cartrage paper, we put some paper down on the print roller then place are asitate creations face up on top. we then stick our cartrage paper over that and then we stick some thinner news like paper over that, so in all we have a stencil sandwhich. this is so the machine doesnt get dirty and un usable.

after we have rolled it, we throw away the scrap paper and then take our asitate sheet of A4 and our cartrage paper which has just been printed on to.

then we move over to the cleaning area in which we have to spray the aitate paper with sunflower oil and cleaning soap so we can then make another print.

here are some photographs of before the print had taken place:





Then we had a short brake for dinner in which i consumed this hamburger and chips from the dry dock mmmmm
im sure the lady drugged it though.

then we came back in and carried on:




Then we had another brake and i had a coke and took my hat off for a moment or two.

Now when i got in i decided to decorate my room with old and new work these are the only images to hand which show the prints i did:


Basically upon the walls as you can see are some images of work.


All the A3 Landscape are print





and the 6 on the left which state stencil on the sheet are the rest :)

Mailshot

I think for my next stage in the project

(making the letter)

i want to include a few things in relevance to Botox and the other areas of research i had already completed:

Items in the letter i.e. (Balloons, etc) 

A unique way of opening the letter ( maybe the easy tear paper in the shape of a injection)

etc i need to do a mind map or something in my book/ Design sheets.

Some areas i need to make sure i DON'T forget is:

The Target Audience (Older people)

The MESSAGE 

Amongst other areas blah blab blahh

I need to do some WORK! 

Botox

New brief
i got Botox
i really dont want to write an essay
so.

i basically researched the word found out the
defenition, generated some shit ideas then developed them
into some more ideas and got a strong body of images and type to work off

I decided it would be funny if i did a piece called
Scro-tox, pardon the punn.


Yeahh although
i had to scrap this idea as it
did'nt deliver a message which worked
with the other materials which were due to be produced

yeah after half a sketch book of more research i found my 3 pieces
after stages of development.


Yeahh face in a collage of 50/50 wrinkled and old paper
then smooth new coloured paper with a iron layed across
giving a feeling that its smoothing off the creases.mmm...


Character or Defimation
says it all really, its a closed question, but, it has
the qualities of a open one as it makes you think
about the topic at hand. Botox.

the image shows half a pop art baloon deflated
and half pumped up, rocket science.


This was a piece i developed further out of the previous
project which was for the name brief.
Basically its like a word search, the type is half wrinkled and half
smooth, youth and old, i hilighted some of the words in different colours
to make them stand out, there also is a message in there if you get them
in the right order,

Botox - Young Age Folds:

Basically means that you don't stay young forever and there or consequences of aging.
you get wrinkley
gutted. x

These doors are made for locking

I woke up for College as per usual, went to my kitchen for some Milk.
Counted My babies




8 Cans of Juicy, sexy, mouth watering Carlsberg.

But yeah, i came back from college about 5pm
and got in, My room mate had just left to go home for
reading week in London.

My friends from home arived here to visit me, I went into
the kitchen for some cans for pre drinking and there it was...



6/8 Cans GONE!
Did i die and go to hell!
She knew that i'm in my overdraft
But yeahh that pretty much ticked me off all day....

So it was time for retaliation.
It's not like i could complain to her as she
was half way to bloody London. So the Silent attack

seamed an amazing way to aproach this...











Ohh yeah! thats what you get when you drink my Carlsberg!
yeahh 4 rolls of Makin tape and a half a roll of celotape later

I was pleased :)

What is Graphic Design? REVENGE!


Ohhh not to mention this wasnt the first time things have gone missing
all our house mates in the Big brother park of Liberty have had things
taken, 2 did a test and left half a bottle of wine in the fridge but marked it
off in pen and suprize it went down.

I am going to buy a bottle of Blossom Hill Vin Blanc

Drink half
mark it off in pen.
Then add the secret ingridient.



Yeahh Bon Apae tite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

x

Colour

Orange.

Out of a load of research sheets i finally got rid of the bull ideas
and got onto something that i thought was interesting and had some in depth context to my colour.

In a way we all got different briefs.

Mine was Orange is 1512.

Why?

well it was all based on a simple question which needed some investigation,
which came first, the chicken or the egg?

well which came first, the Orange or the Orange?
(orange - colour
orange - fruit)

well after quite alot of time i discovered the answer to the puzzle.
The colour is named after orange the fruit, the colour was refaired to in old english
as Geoluhread which basically meant Yellow - Red in a modern English translation.

The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in what year, dare i answer?
yes in 1512 in the court of King Henry VIII.

Now I thought, thats quite interesting, how many people will of found this out?
No one in the class knew, which led to a indavidual graphical opportunity.

I instantly knew what i was going to do from that point.
I defaced a portrait of old Henry the ginger ninger and added images of various orange items
which were to reflect areas of his personality, after all, what is orange?

Well im sure with no research needed we all know that Henry was:

delbt with caution
hypocritical
ginger
feared
vibrant
horny (i mean how many wifes eh?)
murderer (how many wifes did he be head?)
childish
sharp
a Joke
savvage
Greedy
Selfish
Orange!!

oh he hated Marc Redhead to, research into that one

i got my sketch of henry dawg out then
then i altered him to make him sharper rather than round
be cause he was a prick, i think we'd get on...
erm yeah beside the point. i made him into a abstract composition to reflect
essence of the colour orange.
i then added different items in his grasp to
give an impression of what orange is, and what is orange
and the personality of henry cakes,
these were my ten!



Duck - A joke
Cone - Caution
Simply Red - Ok... no real reason for that bar my humour
Pumpkin - Feared
Dildo - Horny
Tiger - Savvage
UV - Center of attention
Lucozade - Energetic
Redhead's Head - Murderer
Pile of Oranges - Greed/ The reason for orange

In essence i wanted to Visualy Communicate that Orange is more than it seams.
All of these items gave off what you would associate Orange with.

Crit = "What has Henry VIII got to do with Orange?"

in essence everything.

To conclude with, something i enjoy to do..

How many posters/ advertisments etc do you look at and understand straight away
and then forget about forever.

How many posters/ advertisments etc do you see and think what the *Explicit Deleted* is that?

and then your mind tingles and you use your head box (brain) and think what possibly
could be the answer to this riddle, well thats how i like to work. There is more to Orange
than people make out, sometimes that extra step forward to show a more in depth concept
is that extra stab in the neck back for lack of education.

But yeah anyway, its those mind tingling advertisments that stick in your head alot longer than the others.

On that note, i'm gunna have a piss, rob some food and beer off Marc
and get Wasted! :)
x

Partner Type

Well i decided to narrow all my words down to a fine three to communicate how i saw my partner, broken down these words were:

Search
Intelligent
Mysterious

In all after many sheets of research i decided to take the magnifying glass font to
experimentation.

This showed all three of my words, as they link in to eachother very well.
I wanted to give the feeling of 'Don't Judge a Book By It's Cover'

this was shown with the magnifying glass, as when you look at something it remains what it is...
were as i wanted to give the feeling that you should look closer at things before you judge them.

My partner wasn't how i expected him to be at all, so i thought this would be a strong prejudice piece to proceed with.

In the crit i got told my letter B looked like glasses... to me this wasn't a great concern as
glasses do not contrast against intellects, glasses to me give people a aire of wisdom without
having anything to prove... 

Another point made was that the font went off the subject and resembled a visual link to Sherlock Holmes (A famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries).....

This to me is fuel for my concept.
If my font gives a feeling of sherlock holmes, an intelligent man who looked closer into mysteries to search and discover them (although fictional) almost the opposite to critasism?




In my letters i used 2 colours Black and Red.

Black - Main structure/detail
Red - Areas of the letter inside the magnfying glass to enlarge the detail in the Pt size of the font.

I used Redpurposely to show that the piece was being enlarged, i need to play around with colour though, Im going to stick to darker greys to black to give an idea of change.

In all i wanted a wise, safisticated kind of aperence for my font.
In comparison to the other type faces at the crit, i believe mine was the strongest
at achieving this.

However my font needs much more work and more manipulational experimenting to be carried out for a muchmore posative attraction.

Type Experimentation

At the moment im exploring different ways to visualy repersent the word
Explorative, ive broke it down to other words which discribe this:

Explore
Find
Discover
Search

With this i instantly thought of using differnt items which are used to show this
the first and most obvious one is the classic magnifying glass to build a type face up

I researched into a font named Unanimous which basicaly looked like this...



To me this fitted in perfectly with the frame of the magnifying glass.
Here is an example of a letter i designed in rough...



But Yeahhh i think its *Explicit Deleted* mint aha
i love the out come and how it fits in with the word simply by
playing around with the shape of a magnifying glass ;)

Another thing ive experimented with (also to do with discovery, search etc) is a typeface
built up of finger prints, i believe this links to Mystery and states there is more to the person
than it seams which would link into quite a few more of my words.

For this i searched for a messyish font that could be used as a stencil.
yes stencil, as i am going over the letters with my finger, the structure of the
typeface changes completely...



This is the font i chose, as it was the right kind of look to be manipulated with my fingers :)
heres what i got...



so yeah thats where i am at 12:08 on a sweaty hungover Sunday brunch..... i fancy some
Pepsi but i'm broke and im in my overdraft... *Explicit Deleted* ;/