Please respond to these questions/prompts in 150 words or less:
1. Since the beginning, screen printing has been a technique used for both decorative, commercial and fine arts purposes. How do you see this unique medium and what are the benefits to artists who use screen printing in their work?
2. What do you hope to get from taking this course?
1. Since the beginning, screen printing has been a technique used for both decorative, commercial and fine arts purposes. How do you see this unique medium and what are the benefits to artists who use screen printing in their work?
2. What do you hope to get from taking this course?
4 comments:
1. Since the beginning, screen printing has been a technique used for both decorative, commercial and fine arts purposes. How do you see this unique medium and what are the benefits to artists who use screen printing in their work?
When I think of screen printing I quite frankly mostly think of fashion apparel and screen printing directly onto fabrics. This process is a new to me as one that is used on paper, I thought its sole purpose was fabric related. This lack of knowledge is an advantage to artists’ who work with screen printing because many who’s work and such could benefit from such a process may not even be aware of its very existence. Also the ability to pull many prints almost exactly the same is an advantage that many don’t have.
2. What do you hope to get from taking this course?
What I hope to get from this course is the mastering of the process that makes up screen printing, it is something that has interested me a lot, yet I have not, till now actually went for it. I want to be able to print my own shirts, which is something that first pulled me into this technique but now that I have seen some of the abilities of working with this I am more than thrilled to print on many types of surfaces. Further I want one of my projects to incorporate some art that I can give to my sister as a house-warming gift to her first own apartment!
1. Since the beginning, screen printing has been a technique used for both decorative, commercial and fine arts purposes. How do you see this unique medium and what are the benefits to artists who use screen printing in their work?
I think that the uniqueness of the medium and the benefits to the artists that use it are tied together. The fact that it is so accessible on so many different items (shirts, cups, posters, etc) not only makes the medium unique but also is a huge benefit. Art work that once only could be on canvas can now be seen in the everyday.
2. What do you hope to get from taking this course?
From taking this course I hope to learn more hands on how screen printing works, the different forms of printing that exist and how to print on various mediums.
1. Since the beginning, screen printing has been a technique used for both decorative, commercial and fine arts purposes. How do you see this unique medium and what are the benefits to artists who use screen printing in their work?
Before the introduction to the course, I assumed screen printing was used primarily for commercial art and graphic design. However, after looking at the reading we were assigned and having class discussions, I am realizing that screen printing is an extremely versatile process and can be used for fine art prints as well. It requires minimal tools (no huge print press required) that can be procured cheaply and large numbers of prints can be made very quickly.
2. What do you hope to get from taking this course?
I hope to explore the possibilities of using screen printing as a fine art medium as well as explore the commercial side. I would like to buy my own screen (aside from the one for class) and try making shirts and hoodies with my art.
1. I think the most obvious advantage to screen printing is the unlimited number of copies you can produce of one work. Once you have created your image, gotten it on the screen, and begun to print it you can place it onto multiple surfaces. Screen printing also lends itself well to any cartoonist or doodle-y artist, I feel. Graphic t-shirts often times have a doodle feel to them. But at the same time, it depends on the artist. Very realistic of accurate stencils are likely made just as frequently as the more simple, cartoon ones.
2. I always wanted to take the silk screening class offered by my high school but did not ever find it on my schedule. I genuinely just want to learn how to screen print. I am a graphic artist more so than a fine artist and I think what I do now and have done in the past could only be improved by being able to print my images in a different way. I am used to making stencils by hand with an exacto knife then using spray paint to get my image on a surface. Pulling ink is a different and very possibly much more efficient way to do the same.
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