Crit & Tutorial

During this crit I explained how my screen printing day hadn't exactly gone to plan. When showing this print next to my lino trial I felt I knew that lino was the print opinion I felt most confident perusing. However some people were still encouraging to keep trying at the screen print as the details and halftones could be effective if they came out properly. I was given some tips on where to source high end lino cutters and inks if I chose to follow that route though which was very helpful!

I went to my tutorial feeling a little lost and bummed out about my prints and where to take them, a small part of me wanted to keep at the screen prints until they worked, but a larger part of me wanted to lie on the floor sobbing at the thought of re-entering the screen printing zone of the print room. 

My talk and tutorial with Teresa helped a lot. I think I was putting too much pressure on myself and working myself up a lot about the screen prints, feeling like I had to push myself with something I wasn't comfortable with, rather than trying to hone my lino skills and elevate them to a higher level. 

During the tutorial I decided that lino printing was the way to go; it wasn't an 'easy way out' as I may have been thinking about it, and I would very much still be able to push my prints a lot further than where they were now. It made sense as it was not only a method I felt a lot more confident with, but it also made more sense in a time effective manner. I could have spent another three weeks battling with screen printing (and being unable to access the studio as much over the Christmas break) onnly to have a number of unfinished and unfinalised prints at the end. At least with lino I could begin locking down the designs now, have them cut over Christmas and be ready to print by January.