User:RyanFouts

=Freshman Seminar=

Always Wanted To Schedule

 * Topic

I'm going to research and take classes on silkscreening and design a couple shirts to create.
 * Research Component

How silkscreening came about how its become what it has.
 * week 1

SICK
 * week 2

Came up with the idea
 * week 3

Figured out how im going execute learning how to silkscreen and where
 * week 4

Take a class at the vera project in seattle and start designing shirts
 * week 5

Take another class at the vera project and continue designing shirts
 * week 6

Finish tee-shirt designs and transfer them to film
 * week 7

make shirts at the vera project or my friends company Minds at play
 * week 8

make shirts at the vera project or my friends company Minds at play

Midterm Assignment 1: Taste & Aesthetics
Father and Son

The sculpture I decided to talk about is called Father and Son. Created by Louise Bourgeois in 2004. The sculpture includes models of a nude father and son reaching for each other but the other is obscured by the water. The artist Describes her piece as that the nudity and obscurity represent vulnerability and the way male familial relationships deteriorate. Louise lost her husband when he was forty, that left her with three sons to take care of. The are many factors leading to the reasons I don’t like this piece. One of the main reasons being when you go up to the piece I couldn’t find a mantle about it. So all I got out of it was a boy standing nude with his hands out. I didn’t realize that every hour its switched to show his father. I feel that it doesn’t show enough of the story because when I started researching it I found out a lot more about the father passing and Louise having to raise her boys by herself. After Researching about the piece I will say, it grew on me, but I still don’t like it. I don’t appreciate that Louise describes her piece as if all male relationships deteriorate. From a males perspective I feel she does not have the right to say such thing. Just as I feel I shouldn’t do the same about women relationship because I just don’t know enough about them. I wish the piece was more about her husband passing and what she has seen happen to her boys. Maybe from a different view she could be talking about the relationships that a young man must deal with growing up. In the end I would say as a piece of art it should show more of the body while being covered in water and maybe a timer to show when its going to change. When I first saw it I just didn’t get the story.

Midterm Assignment 2: Manipulation
== Midterm Assignment 3: Always Wanted To Progress Report (100 words or so)=

At this point in the always wanted to silkscreen project I’m almost finished with all my research and ready to start writing my presentation. Last Wednesday I took a class at the Vera project. I was about two hours long and taught me everything i need to learn about basic silkscreening. I was a great class that was very hands on. Since the Class i started making my designs for the shirt. I’m not sure how many shirts im going to make. at this point only one or two. I have a drop in session at the vera project tomorrow after class to use there silkscreen studio. That is where i stand with this project :)

Final Presentation

 * Topic (10%)

Learning how to Silk Screen


 * Research (20%)

Sorry if this isn't the amount of research you wanted,The final i chose was more hands on by taking classes at the vera project and designing and making a shirt. -The Vera Project, Seattle WA -MDS Company USA, ed. "A brief History of screen printing." MDS company USA, 2006. Web. . -The History of Printing and Printing Processes." ABOUT.COM. THE NEW YORK TIMES, 2009. Web. . -"HOW TO LEARN SILK SCREEN." HOW TO DO THINGS. Ed. HOW TO DO THINGS. 2009. Web. .


 * Your accomplishment (20%)

I reached my goal on learning how to Silk Screen and then some. I wanted to learn how to do single layers and make three designs for shirts and posters. I only finished one shirt for the final because i ended up learning how to do multilayer printing and ran into some issues that didn't allow me to to have the time to make more then one shirt. i learned the whole process- make design-take that on photoshop-fill each layer of color all back-print on paper or negative Paper-Go to the studio-take your screen and coat a thin layer of emulsion on the inside of the screen- let it dry on a dark room drying rack- take your design and line it up on the silk screen and tape it down- lay screen photo side down on a very high powered light and cover with black cloth- the light exposes the image into the emulsion while drying any emulsion the image doesn't black out- take the newly brunt silk screen to the wash sink and wash it with a pressure washer while its off-the the screens dry after washing-line up your shirt on the platelet- line up your design on the rack up with the the shirt-tape off the inside of the screen with tape where the ink might seep through- lock the screen in place with the platelet and place ink at the top of the screen furthest away from you-take your squeegee- do a fill pass with the ink- then you come through with a think even coat-lift the screen and dry with a flash dryer, fan, or heat gun- proceed with the following steps with each screen according to color and layer-after your done wash everything out and clean.
 * Project Review (50%)
 * 1)What went well-What went well was how amazing the vera project is! the classes and drop in sessions are very easy and informative. The Teaching is very hands on and really helped me in the learning process. After completing the class you are able to sign up for drop in sessions. a drop in session is 5$ and you can use their whole studio and equipment for about 4 hours.
 * 2)What went poorly- Well since i started the project and decided to learn how to do multilayer printing i ran into a few problems. The first one was designing three shirts....I didn't realize the time it takes to outline and fill each design layer into a negative film using photoshop this cased a couple problems. From the bad prints the emulsion didn't expose to the light correctly casing the the images to not be brunt in the screen smoothly, casing me to reprint the the photo a couple times. After a few try's i got some good prints. Once i got to a press, shirt on the platelet i soon discovered that none of my images line up with one another making the image have the red ink go outside the black outline and also overlapping the white ink. The white ink was thin in some areas of the design. After one Round on the silkscreen press i did move fast enough leading the the inks to dry on the screens. this was hard to wash out.
 * 3)Future strategies-well the biggest thing that everything led back to was the negative prints, the emulsion drying wrong in places causing the print on the screen to be bad. So i need to go back to photoshop fill each colors layer more fine. reprint those and start over. As far as better thickness of ink that will just take time to get consistent with the squeegee.

Self-Assessment
Over all I enjoyed this class. I feel for the amount that we pay though sucks considering it has nothing to do with my major. I thought some of the classes were great some were bad. Over all i thought you were a great teacher and very interesting. I wish the class had more guild lines towards Art and peoples personal majors. The best example would be the finals. I feel you should be required to do something more artsy not just whatever they please. I chose silk screening because i felt I could really use it for other parts of my life. Im not trying to get upset I just feel that I put alot of time into learning the process and taking time into designing and making some shirts by silk screen. I feel like with the open guide lines people will choose thing that have nothing to do with school but and the whole reason we are here is to expand are minds and want to be here. loosing wight, quitting smoke, flying in hot air balloons, planing a trip is kind of an excuse to not do any work. I wasn’t trying to dog on anyone I'm just saying in the future make it about art because thats what we are all here for. Thanks again Steven Arntson for being a great teacher my first semester at the Art institute. I hope to have you as a teacher for my future study’s. Have a wonderful break and Merry Christmas!!!