wednesday 5/15

at school hours: 9am - 3:30pm
(plus purchasing materials for an hour after that and blogging now)

Productive day.

Started with shooting the checker background, then printing it 3 different times to cover the section. the result looks like this:

it created the right look for the background i was intending, although i new it would be way to hectic (given how small the squares are) to add an image to the other half of the squares (the white checkers right now). So I'm leaving the background as it is, and have created a full size graphic of the lips and zipper that I was gonna use for the checker. At the end of the day today I shot those three color separations on a new screen so I'm ready to silkscreen it tomorrow morning.





Somewhere in between that, I gesso'd the 70's section (the white base), then gave it a coat of gloss medium. I began the splattering process for the background, but it takes time because if you let each color dry before splattering the next, the acrylics wont blend where the wet globs meet. I allowed for some of this with the black and red, but waited for complete dry before the blue. Tomorrow I'll be layering pink and yellow and possibly more.

After leaving school I went to "Creative Paints" to get the right nails, and "Fabrix" to get loose black cloth for the calculus piece. It's going to be staple gunned to the board, then I'll add nails and begin stringing designs between them. Plan to be done by the end of the weekend. (Media piece done by friday)