Snow snow go away...

...come back when I don't have night class 45 minutes drive away!!

I missed last week's class due to the snow and if things don't improve (i.e. the weather and my snow driving skills!) I'll be missing tomorrow night's class as well which is very sad to say the least. I had hoped to prepare a new screen last week, but no such luck, however I can show my design which uses 2 screens and offset register as I wanted each printed piece to be individual. I feel this particular design sums up my goals from the course. I didn't have these goals when I started the course, I just wanted to screenprint again, but the course allowed me to focus on 2 goals: one was to find focus (!) and the other was to use my drawing and mark-making to enhance the design i.e. that I would not just do an outline, but utilise the very essence of screenprinting: that every line or shape drawn or made and exposed on your screen becomes a printed line or shape on your fabric.

For the first screen I cut flower shapes out of black paper for a background and the second screen is a drawing I did using my love of bees as a starting point...

(I did the drawing first and then took that as inspiration for the background)

Here, I printed the second screen in 2 different colours offset as part of my test prints:


And here, I printed my screen on to pre-patterned fabric:


I am thinking of stretching some of these over frames to make artworks.



It's all very well printing fabrics, but I also want to be make them into useful items so these are some coin purses that I have made from my earlier test fabrics:


I look forward to continuing my screenprinting journey and perhaps finding focus :-)