I fully intended to upload these pictures earlier, but I discovered an embarrassing, and potentially hilarious spelling error in the work as soon as I returned home, which comes of working upside wrong using teeny tiny pieces of tape to write text, as well as an inherant inability to remember the number of esses appropriate to the spelling of desert and dessert, respectively. I had no paint (situation rectified, oh blessed G and S dyes) for the correction, and being at home, home type things would, and did, keep happening, and so on. But at last here are two of the final pieces of work produced in the screen printing workshop.
The shapes in this print were appropriated from a book on screenprinting by Claire Benn and Leslie Morgan. They were simply cut from newsprint, laid out on the cloth, and printed using first yellow, then red and finally blue green paint, over the course of three days with plenty of drying time in between subsequent printings, and repeated cutting of shapes.
The above piece is based upon the well known poem by Percy Shelley, titled "Ozymandias". The first run of printing was the blue area which covered the taped (and dismally spelled) text of the first four lines of Shelley's sonnet. The next three runs were used to define the coloured areas of the face, using stencils cut from newsprint. A fourth stencil will further define the image with line work.
The bottom desert area will contain further text and colour, to be determined. The piece will then be stitched and framed. Sounds relatively straightforward ... We'll see.
I had a wonderful time at the work shop, and would recommend to anyone that they take advantage of the offerings made by the Lunenburg School of the Arts. Great facility, great people, and lots of fun.
