Excluded

This beautiful map and 49 others got four colors screen printed on them today between 6;30am and 3:00pm. I also managed to teach three classes and chat with my advanced print making students during our studio time . . . While printing.

All four screens burned by 8 am and off to critique with the advanced layout and design class . . . 

Between 11 and 12:30 I got the first two colors pulled. And got the third lined up and registered.

Got the third and fourth done between 2 and 3 . . . It was right down to the wire. As I was cleaning my screen, the alarm on my phone that reminds me to pick up Ethan went off . . .

Distant

First screen of a four color print. 

Detail

  

Second color, sorry the images are not sharper . . . 

Detail

Conserve

Two color, three screen, print on map. The emulsion blew out a bit over the face, but it ended up creating an interesting, if not somewhat ambiguous image. The clor on this map is pretty dope as well.

Printing

This afternoon I spent an hour or so working in the printmaking studio. First I reclaimed a few screens then pulled a small edition of two color prints on maps. The photo did not turn out. Let's blame the equipment rather than my technique.

Here is a detail from a test print that seems to be getting somewhere.

Also, here's a shot of the studio. Just got some heavy duty drying racks over break. 

midwest

Test print from a 12x18 linocut. 

I was hoping to inspire my students, but I think I just made them mad . . .

The edition might end up on a different paper when it is actually printed, but that will likely not happen until spring break.