9am - 4pm
Today was very productive. I got to school and began transferring some print outs to acetate for the screen that Ms. Blum and I also prepared for tomorrow.
Next I drove down to DISCOUNT Builder's Supply at Mission and Duboce. I had a 4' x 8' sheet of 3/4" Poplar wood cut into two 6' x 2' rectangles, and two 2' x 2' squares.
Once I got the wood back to school, and moved up to the art room, I resized the Nixon and Reagan stencils to a smaller size to fit the new wood. Then I cut out both of the stencils with the soldering-iron/xacto-knife in entirety. This took time and precision
late lunch.
After that, I began priming the wood of the history piece with gesso and acrylic. It is white gesso on the far left, blue and black acrylic paint to the right of that. On the far left, I used a paper in the shape of the Reagan stencil to cover the area where the stencil will be on the wood. I then took an open screen (no emulsion) to pull a blend of green and white ink. I used the rim of the plastic cup holding the green ink to arrange green on the screen before it was pulled at the suggestion of Ms. Blum. The way you arrange your paints on the screen before a blend completely determines the way the colors appear across the print, and where they are solid, streak, blended, etc. This is how the board looked at the end of today, when I cleaned up and left around 3:45
Once I got the wood back to school, and moved up to the art room, I resized the Nixon and Reagan stencils to a smaller size to fit the new wood. Then I cut out both of the stencils with the soldering-iron/xacto-knife in entirety. This took time and precision
Oh Aubrey, I am so inspired by your project, I want to do my own! You can feel free to ignore my suggestions, I just get a little excited about the visual multi-media representation of THE Calculus!
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