FMP III

I was able to get my hands on the new pens I mentioned yesterday (here). They are named ZIG opaque pens and fabricated by Kuretake.

 Photograph of opaque pens on my desk.

I threw together a quick design, just to test whether the pens would be able to come out well in the printroom. My main concern was if the fine lines would come out well (see design below)

my quick design using the ZIG pens.

Tomorrow I will go into the print room, and after the guest speaker, and try seeing how the print comes out. I feel that these pens are too good to be true, a way to cut my work time practically in half with no loss of quality, that just seems too wonderful to happen. But the technicians assure me they work, well tomorrow we shall see.

War Print test

I spent the day in the print room trying to make it so I could test whether the line work was correct on my war poster. Bellow was the result:

photograph of my war poster (screenprint)

Though I am happy that the lines came out well. It does strike me that I used the wrong colours, as there appears to be too little negative space in this picture. The second thing is that the image might be a tad too crowded. But at this point there really is very little time to do any sort of change. 

I have also decided to cut down the number of posters I am going to produce down to 6, and forget the idea of doing a book.

While printing, Peter Lloyd started telling me about some new pens available in the print room, some which supposedly are made for screen printing. If what he tells me is correct is that would mean i could draw my designs on drafting film without having to retrace it. 

There was also an art sale on in the studios where I was able to pick up and A3 portfolio fairly cheaply. Something I have been worrying about slightly as I have not gone to London on one of the tutors "portfolio hunts".

I also submitted my image for the degree catalogue, I used the image (here), 4th image from the top. Jonny told us that we would have a chance to see the catalogue before it is sent off for printing at some point in the next few weeks. 

Degree Show Hanging Talk

Scan of the schedule for the week.

Today Peter Lloyd had an early morning talk (too early) to us about the how to hang the degree show which is now only a few weeks away. He ran through the many different techniques, their advantages and disadvantages and some basic dos and don'ts when hanging a show (see below for notes)

Scans from my sketchbook

From Pete's talk I have decided to use magnets to hang my degree show. This seems to be the most elegant solution, and as an added bonus one that is very easy to pull off. Though I will need to order the magnets online as it is apparently impossible to buy them in Southampton.

I also managed to completed my war poster late this night, spending another 6 or so hours on it. Now all I need to do is test whether it prints well, and if it does I am 1/6 of the way to go... yay (sarcasm).

FMP Work II

Having spent most of night working on my war poster, I am pleased to see that the first layer is almost complete. Thought I know that I am miles behind everyone else at this point, I am still pleased that I am making progress now.

First layer of my FMP war poster

FMP Work I - War

Today I spent another few hours working ony my FMP. Still working on the war poster.

My FMP war poster 

Almost all the elements in this poster have a reason for being there, and I will explain this once the final print is done, so it will be clearer to you (the reader) what is going on. In my mind it make more sense to do it this way, as it will demonstrate how the research was used. Instead of the reader having to scroll backwards to figure out where that element came from. Much to impractical.