User:NinaG

=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule
Topic
 * How to Silk Screen

Research Component
 * How to produce my own images and show a fun and eazy way to make your own stuff

week 1
 * Histroy of Silk Screen and who popularizied it

week 2
 * Supplies needed

week 3
 * What images work better and what kind of images I would like to mass produce

week 4
 * Finalize the home process

week 5
 * Test silk screen and timeing

week 6
 * Test on t-shirts, and bandanas

week 7
 * More testing on items

week 8
 * Mass produce images

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
I picked "Stinger" by Tony Smith. I just don't get how something like that could be art. After reading about the piece and the artist, I began to like his art. He didn't start making sculptures until he was 44! His art is different and "off the wall" I guess you could say. As I looked at more works by him I saw the beauty in it. I think one thing why I didn't like it was because it was made up of only shapes. I hate math so naturally I wanted to judge it with out finding out about it. I like more color and meaning that you can see. When I first saw the Stinger I called it the mother ship. It reminded me of one. I will always call it that. Its big and black. I'm thankful that I can change my mind and that I'm not stuck in that mind set that I can't control my own thoughts and feelings. I think if you give something a chance you will learn to like it in the long run.

Midterm Assignment 3: Always Wanted To Progress Report (100 words or so)
So far so good. Its a little harder then you think. Trying to get everything together and start was one of the hard parts of this project. Its mess once you start off but I think I'm getting the hang of it. Tested my skills out on a few shirts, but haven't decided on one picture to mass produce. I think by the end of the class I will have got the hang of it. It takes sometime to get the ink on the shirt and to let it dry. But that is what they made blow dryers for.

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

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 * Research (20%)

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 * 1) Internet site: Pettis, Bre. "Learn how to screen print your own t-shirt." web. 
 * 2) Book: Thimou, Paul. "Home Screen printing Workshop: do-it-yourself techniques, design ideas, and tips for graphic prints". Massachusetts: Quarry Books, 2006. Print
 * 3) Scholarly Journal:
 * 4) Other (interview, TV show,etc): Biegeleisen, J.L. "The Complete Book of Silk Screen Printing Production". New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1963. Print


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

<> I think I reached my goal. There are still areas on with I need to improve, but all in all I feel very proud about what I have done. I will describe in class the process it takes to do a silk screen. Now that I have done silk screening with ink, I plan on buying other materials and using photo emulsion to make high quality images!!!!!!!!


 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1)What went well: The drying process was not as hard as I thought it would be. I used a blow dryer instead of letting it sit there and dry on it's own. That was the easy part. Once I got the hang of putting the glue on the fabric everything else fell together.
 * 2)What went poorly: I really didn't take enough time in doing this project. I waited to long to start it. I feel if I would have started it atleast by week 3 I would have had a better understanding of the process and produced more images.
 * 3)Future strategies: Start the project on time, work on it atleast 4 times a week, and enjoy what I'm doing instead of dreading it.

Self-Assessment
I've learned that I procrastinate way to much!! Instead of starting something when I'm told to, I put it off till the last possible second. I'm not sure what else there is to learn because I learn something new everyday of my life. I really didn't try that hard in this class. Even though i did well in the class, I'm not happy because I wasted alot of my time dreading to do the homework in this class. But I did enjoy it. I think this class has shown me alot about my self and now I will be better prepared to start a new quarter. I'm not sure if I contributed to the experiences of other students. I feel like some of the other students didn't really want to speak up in class and talk about stuff. In some of the topics that we talked about, I gave my two cents on the subject but I don't think it helped anyone.