WORKSHOP 6 - Screen Printing
This was the week we had planned for the girls to visit the
university. This would be the only time the workshops hadn’t taken place under
a school environment, and would give them an insight to what studying at degree
level can be like as well as the chance to use the type of facilities they
wouldn’t normally have access to.
They were fascinated by the work produced in the studios, as
well as excited for the textiles and fashion department, showing them that
there are ways into that line of subject area within Nottingham already.
Using the drawings & the mono-prints from the first two
workshops, we prepared 8 different screens in order to do a screen printing
workshop. By using the previous work, we wanted to show them the ability to
recycle work they’ve already made, instead of feeling like they have to create
something completely new. They also began to abstract the prints they made,
seeing shapes which may not have originally been connected to other types of
natural forms, such as birds and mountains.
The focus of the workshop was similar to that of the
printing one, in that there was an incredible velocity of work produced. We
placed emphasis on the ability to create 3-5 prints in order to make a
successful one and still retain the others as preliminary experiments. Because
the process was such a simple procedure, the girls were more confident in their
decision making when it came to choosing the colours of their prints.
There was ambitious use of colour, line and layering within
this workshop. Some tried to replicate a 3-D effect by printing directly over
another print, while complimentary and opposite colours were used deliberately.