Experiment: Screen-printing (Part VII)

In winter quarter, as well as taking film photography, I took another round of advanced printmaking with the phenomenal Noel Anderson. As is evidenced by my FYASO Friday segments, I love the FYASO meme. It's been burning in my brain to recreate it in art somehow, and so I decided to go with it for printmaking. I thought screen-printing would be most useful and effective. I like the idea of using a handmade process that can be messy, time consuming, and potentially one-of-a-kind to create a physical version of an internet meme. Thi sis because, in contrast, internet memes are quick and spontaneous, created to fit the situation or mood, meat to be more throwaway images. You don't need any editting software to make them; the more popular memes have websites where you can quickly throw words on the image (for example, at memegenerator.net).

First, I tried to replicate the FYASO image with original words.

Then I loosened up and put layers together more haphazardly, letting them fall as they would, to show more of the frustrated feel the Owl often has.

In the second half of the quarter, I worked on images of a sunset. I used many transparent layers of ink to achieve the floating layered clouds. This piece of a good lesson in embracing mistakes and not letting them frustrate me, which is a problem I often have.

Here is a close-up of some of the clouds. I used silver ink in some of the layers.

Experiment: Photography (Part III)

Here are most of the final prints I made for film photography. Photography was fun, but at times irritating, and always time-consuming. If attempting to work in the darkroom, always set aside at least a five hour stretch of free time. And bring a radio.

Experiment: Intaglio Printing

Last quarter, I took a studio in Advanced Printmaking, as I have taken three studios in different kinds of printmaking (screen-printing, intaglio, and relief). In this studio, I focused on intaglio. Here is a sampling of the prints that resulted. These are more monoprint than intaglio, to be honest, as I painted thinned ink straight onto the plate to print. However, I would call them intaglio since the plate was a zinc plate that I had etched initially. I worked with the same plate all quarter. It's fascinating that you can achieve many different effects and moods using the exact same plate.

Experiment: Relief Printing

Here's another print that I only recently received back from my professor. This was the first print I did last spring in my relief printing class, and it ended up being my favorite.

Here are the other prints I did that class, for good measure. (You may remember seeing the last print here in my first post: The Opening Theory.)

Experiment: Comics

In honor of finally taking another comics studio this new quarter, here are scans of a large-scale comic I did last spring that I just received back from my teacher. The assignment was to create a page that would look right in a  Kramers Ergot book (here is the Amazon.com link to Kramers Ergot 7). This piece is 23"x29", if I remember correctly. A pain and a half to create, but so satisfying.

Large file.

Several close-up images:

Experiment: Photography

Here are some of my favorite pictures I've taken from the last year. Some were taken in Oval Beach, Michigan, and other in Chicago, Illinois. I sort of forgot I took them. I really need to organize my photos better.

Experiment: Screen-printing (Part III)

The final product of my project:

A series of four prints of the rising, waxing moon. I like how they turned out, which can't always be said for my projects. I usually end up hating them. Maybe I'm more easily tapping into things I really want to create. Or maybe it's because I finished in a timely manner and didn't have to rush around like a crazy person. Tough call.

The Opening Theory

Hi, I'm Kimberly L Carey! You may remember me from such films as the University of Cincinnati and Facebook. But really, I do go to UC. I'm in the Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) program, specifically Fine Arts, and I'm a 2D concentration. I do pen and ink comics, printmaking, some photography, and some digital work. I'm 21 years old and I'm a fourth-year student with one more to go. It'll be here before I know it! Scary!

This blog is called "An Experiment" because that's how I've been approaching new things, as experiments. If I get confused or frustrated, I just insist, "No no, don't worry. Treat this as an experiment. It's just an experiment." That usually helps. Also, I just mistyped "experiment" five times just now, including that last one.

Here's what I've been up to recently. Click them to see them full-sized.

Oil painting of an evening sunset
2010

Relief print
2010

A self-criticism, pen and ink comic
2010

Digital photography
2008

Pen and ink self-portrait and biography
2009

Next two:
Illustrations from a story, colored in Photoshop
2009

 2010