Recent prints - sneak peak

A sneak peak at some recent prints of mine. this relates back to an earlier post about 'screen printing blues'.

these prints took bloody ages to do, due to things breaking and going wrong.

i am working on words, sayings and what not.

the BIG DRAW preparation day

Preperation for the BIG DRAW commences.

the big draw, apprantly it is a national event but i only know what we do at our uni. This year's theme is 'beyond the line'

so my tutor Andrew Wilson-Lambeth came up with the idea of having wooden cubes made up and painted black. For us to draw the outside of letters with any shapes and decoration that we thought of.

The plan was to film it and animate it and make a font from it.

Here are our efforst so far. more photos and perhaps a video will be posted later when the big draw happens.  Out of the pictures I drew the 'G' and the 'F'.

in total I drew 'G', 'F', 'X', 'M' and 2.

I am all for this event, art taking place in public spaces, we take over the main library. the idea of annoying boring library staff and students pleased me, in a twisted satyrical way.

the drugs don't work

Currently listening too -

'the drugs don't work' - by the verve

so many things are drugs or could be classified or justified as drugs.

coffee / ciggies / booze / paracetamol / asprin / multi-vitamins / pill for this / pill for that / pill for stress / pill for your joints / pill for your bladder / pill for depression / pill for that hole inside you / pill for your heart / pill for your blood pressure / pill for your fat belly / pill for your nerves / smoke for your nerves / work / success / goals / ambitions / acceptance / on and / on and / on and / on and / on

SILK SCREEN BLUES

screen printing blues -

i normally love the process / right from printing the film out, exposing the screen, washing it, drying it, prepping your paper / mixing inks, then aligning your artwork, taping off the screen, turning on the suction, printing a proof out, checking it, then printing /

push squeedgy left to right -

pull screen up slightly - 

flood coat right to left - 

pull screen all the way up - 

check print - 

place in drying rack -

repeat

However this week i have had two posters to print out. which is nowt, but the film machine broke, the inks were wrong ( i mixed them a bit naff like), the silk screen was old and old artwork came through.

in total this all took 3 days.......... 3 DAYS!!!!

so i have the screen printing blues. i will not be printing there for a while. i'll draw letters for a bit.

simple pleasures

i was walking down the street today in town, a fashionable lady was in front of me and she had big clip-pity clop-pity shoes on and the noise her shoes was fairly loud so i tried to walking in time with her so the noise my feet made added to her clip-pity clop-pity.

NO IDEA WHY

it amused me

font ideas

flow - movement - direction - beginning - end - middle is the journey - water particles flow and follow a smoother direction - air particles are erratic - they judder - spread with their environment - lines flow down stream - lines/flowing/ink/paint/water could be mapped out with lines - a stencil font could be constructed and set up to be put in the path of the flowing water/ink/paint and the strands of ink could be used to make a font.

shape of things to come - more ideas

life in stages / life in bits / life in shatters / life in strands / we are stuck together / strands of rope fray / we are all together in this life / in these bits / in these shatters / in the strands / in this glue

 a banner / wave your banner for your rights / for your beliefs / your mantra / your motto / your mould 

work under it / fight under it / maybe your work is your fight / or your fight is your work / same difference / no

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

ideas for a possible book.

wordball }

links / tenuous links / web / connected / spirals / life / pain / learning / home / old memories / same old place / same old faces / world seems far away / sheltered / need to get out / outside / out there / out where? / in the cold / exposed / vulnerable / enemies / small minded / small world / no roads / no direction / directionless / lack of / without / sat in a room full of people / people all around me / alone / disconnected / disjointed / invisible / vernacular / home born / nostalgic / home pain / dystopic / bad place / journey through / running away / running from / destination unknown / drifting / 

} This book is about the power of words, the emotions, the story, the journey.

inspired by alan fletcher and his books.