Serigraphy/ Art 248
Assignments
MORE Exhibition--Fall 2006
MORE Exhibition
For their Final Critique, the Fall 2006 Serigraphy:
Art 248 class was required to participate in an exhibition in the CUBE
4 Gallery of their last two projects: their Wallpaper/Fabric Yardage and
their Obsessive Multiple Final Project and Exchange Portfolio. Both
projects were directly inspired by the Many Many Exhibition (August-September
2006, Majestic Galleries, Nelsonville, OH) organized for the MAPC Conference
hosted in Athens.
The students were required to installed their repeat prints on the wall
and to find a way to display their whole Obessive Multiple/Print Object
edition (15 total objects).
Below are images from the exhibition:
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WALLPAPER
OR FABRIC YARDAGE
Technique: Repeat
Printing
This project will allow you to explore the process of printing continuous pattern
on rolled paper or cloth. You must incorporate at least 2 colors within your
design and turn in 12 feet of continuous printed paper or cloth. It is very
important to work with a partner for this printing!
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OBSESSIVE MULTIPLE
Technique: Multi-color
Printing, Box and Book Making, Sewing, etc
CONSUMERISM, CONSUMPTION, AND THE
OBSESSIVE MULTIPLE!!
Using the Many, Many Exhibition (at the Majestic Galleries & organized for
the 2006 Mid America Print Council Conference in Athens, OH) as a source of inspiration.
Consider how the multiple is used and mis-used in the world around us. Consider
your relationship to creating multiples, especially if this is your first time
in this role.
This project
you are required to create a "print object" or an object
that incorrporates serigraphy printing! The bare minimum would
be a print that have been printed on both sides like a playing
card. Look at toys, games and game boards, artist books, origami,
box forms, product packaging, etc for additional inspiration.
You must include 4 printed colors into your object design and
create an edition of 15. This will be the print exchange for
this course!
The objects will be critiqued in the CUBE 4 Gallery on the last day of class.
The presentation of the edition of objects will be considered in the grading
of this piece!
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WHITE-TO-BLACK REDUCTION
Content: Still Life
To prepare for this print, draw preliminary sketches of a still life object
or group of objects. Focus on the contours of the forms and the values
playing on their surfaces!
You are required to use at least 5 values while creating this image—the
white of the page, pure black, and three values of gray in between!
Simplify the lights and darks on the objects into five values. From these
sketches create a final, key drawing to use as a guide when painting
your stencils on your screen. Note the location of these values on the
key drawing and label them…it will look like a color by number
image!
Technique: Reductive Screen Printing
This print will allow you to explore the process of reductive screen printing
as you produce your first screen printed edition.
Through this project you will create a limited edition. There will be
no way to retrieve the older states of the screen—they will be
painted over will screen filler. Because of this you should print--right
away--enough to cover your edition and allow for mistakes. I suggest
starting with at least 8 sheets of paper. Each sheet of paper is printed
with the first color. The screen is altered, creating the stencil for
the next color. This process is repeated until the final color is printed.
Always begin by printing the palest value! It will be more easily covered
by later values!
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COLOR REDUCTION
Content: Fortune Cookie
Select a fortune cookie containing its random fortune.
Somehow use the text and/or numbers provided by the fortune to inspire
this print!
The text does not have to be included—though, maybe you use it in
full!
Have fun!
Technique: Reductive Screen Printing
This print will allow you to explore the process of reductive screen printing
through your first multiple color print.
After designing your image, take some time to decide a color scheme. Plan
out the color steps and what will be painted on the screen between each
color. Remember that it is best to start with lighter colors, more translucent
and to work up to the darker, more opaque colors.
You are required to use at least 5 colors for this print, though many
images will call for 6 to 10 colors. The process is rather immediate and
you should not be afraid to use as many colors as you believe your image
needs!
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BLACK & WHITE PHOTO EMULSION (in
two parts)
Content: Talisman/Fetish Object
Talisman: 1. a ring, stone, etc. bearing engraved figures supposed
to bring good
luck, keep evil away, etc. 2. anything supposed to have magical powers;
a charm
fetish: 1. any object believed by superstitious people to have magical
power
2. any thing or activity to which one is irrationally devoted
What object in your life can be placed in the above categories? Is there
something that you feel compelled to carry with you at all times? Is there
an object that you are obsessed with or adore? Use this idea of a talisman
or fetish object as a starting point. Examine your sacred object. Why
is important to you? Try to express the answer to this question in the
print.
Technique: Stencil Creation
Photo Emulsion Processes
Color Addition using Paper Stencils
Part #1:
Technique: Photo Screen Printing
Create a Laser print or Xerox stencil that uses your own drawing marks
and lines combined with suitable found imagery. This found imagery can
come from anywhere: the web, books (old engraving illustrations are a
great consistency, with their heavy focus on line), magazines, photographs,
etc. Collage the found imagery and drawings to create a final stencil.
This can be done in Photoshop (the final Laser printed) or manually, through
cut and paste (the final xeroxed).
The imagery should be altered to be graphic enough for screen printing.
We make printable or non-printable sections on our screens…paler
values must be created by bits of the white of the paper coming through
the black ink! Only areas of white (which will allow the light to shine
through) or dense black (which will block the light) will do any good
on your stencil!
Coat half of your screen and expose it with your stencil.
Part #2:
Technique: Paper Stencil Screen Printing
Using a proof of your B&W image laid over a piece of foam core or
chip board, cut your paper stencils out of architecture tissue/canary
paper. Use the open half of your screen, backed with these stencils, to
apply blocks of color to 5 sheets of print paper. When dry overprint with
your B&W image. Choose three of the strongest color combinations to
turn in.
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MULTI-COLOR
PRINT
Technique: Multi-Color
Screen Printing (Paper Stencils, Photo,
& Reduction)
This print will allow you to explore the process of printing with multiple
colors using the multi-color process or combination, which most suits
your formal and conceptual concerns.
You must incorporate at least 4 colors within this image and create
an edition of 5 prints.
Take time to consider your
layering and color scheme before you begin.
Pre-planning is important!
3-STENCIL PHOTO EMULSION
Content: Superstition
If you step on a crack you will break your mother’s back.
It is bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding.
Bad things always happen in threes.
superstition: 1. an irrational belief that an object, action, or circumstance
not logically related to a course of events influences its outcome.
2. any belief that is not in accord with laws of science or with what
is considered true and rational; especially such belief in charms, omens,
the supernatural, etc
For this image, think about superstitions. Do you have beliefs or fears
that could be labeled as superstitions? Are there superstitions that have
been with you and your family forever? Is there a particular childhood
chant or rhyme that has always caught in your head? If your life is free
of superstition, research the subject to find one that speaks to you.
Technique: Multi-Color Photo Screen Printing
This print will allow you to explore the process of printing with multiple
colors using photo stencils. You will concentrate on perfecting stencil
creation, creating photo emulsion screens, color selection, and registration
of the three layers.
From the title of this assignment, you have probably come to understand
that at least 3 stencils will be employed for this print to create three
separate layers. This also means that you will need to coat and expose
your screen 3 separate times. Unlike the reductive assignment (in which
you used one screen with less and less printable area each time), the
layers of this print exist on their own.
Design the 3 stencil layouts at the same time, so that they lock together
in the appropriate way. Also, take time to consider your color scheme
before you begin. Pre-planning is important!
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EXCHANGE PRINT/FINAL
Paper size: 11” x 14” ONLY---MUST BE THIS SIZE—NO LARGER
OR SMALLER!!!
(can be a margin or bleed print)
Edition size: 17 (1/17 to 17/17)
Content: Open
Technique: You will have the opportunity to select the serigraphy process
to create this print. This allows you to use the process to which you
are the most suited.
The edition number is higher then you are used to, but this allows for
good print training as well as a chance to trade prints with your fellow
classmates and I.
On our scheduled finals day we will formally trade our editions. Paper
folders and your final grades will be given to you at that time.
CONSIDER THIS PROJECT YOUR SERIGRAPHY FINAL EXAM!
Let me repeat: THESE
PRINTS MUST BE 11” x 14”!!!!!!
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MONOTYPES
Monotype and Hand-worked Stencil Screen Printing
These prints will allow you to explore multiple beginning screen printing
techniques; including paper/hand-cut stencils, direct stencils, painted
stencils, the use of water soluble media, ink mixing, and printing.
Use this project as a way to grow accustomed to the shop and its tools.
Start to become intimate with your materials and the processes we will
be using all quarter. Experiment will color, texture, and layering in
these prints.
Within these prints, you are required to try at least one paper/hand-cut
stencil, one direct stencil, one painted stencil, and one water soluble
media.
You are also required to use at least 3 colors.
Though a lot of pre-planning is not necessary this time around!
Dive in!!