Evaluation Experience.

Evaluation Experience.

I would like to put here a disclaimer: The pictures used for Screen Printing A and Screen Printing in four Colours do not belong to me, I just used the screen given to me by technicians.

The Brief:

Over the course of the month, I will be attending as many workshops as I can to accumulate as much knowledge as I can.

I plant to go to the orb website each day and subscribe to relevant workshops and relocate the knowledge and experience in a blog post.

This brief is focused on the experience and knowledge of different practices.

Experience was an eventful project. I learnt a lot throughout these weeks. I have attended eight workshops: Preparing files for printing, which included Litho, Riso and Screen printing; Blender: Introduction; Screen printing: Part A, B, Four colour (CMYK); After Effect: Introduction; Coptic Binding: Introduction and last but not least Screen Printing with Paper stencils.

In the computer-based workshops I learnt that I have some difficulties understanding more complicated software. Blender was the one I had the most difficulties in, I could not understand half of what the teacher was explaining.

After Effect was similarly complicated but somehow I am confident that I will learn the basics soon enough, in the future I will practice more of what I can do with the software.

The computer base workshop I had less difficulties in was ‘how to create files for printing’, this workshop was the one I understood more as I am more familiar with photoshop, and I chose to do it as I was planning to be able to create imaginary that would be suitable for screen printing.

{See pictures: Axel Half Tone, CMYK, Image 3.}

Shifting the focus on what I learnt in the screen printing workshops, these are the classes which I attended the most in this project, at first it was because I did not have the chance to sign up for something else, but it changed rather quickly. I did once again the Part A and B as I have done this only on my first year and a lot of the memories got foggy other time, it was fun and important for me to learn again the basics of screen printing and how to create a screen. {See picture: Screen Printing A.}

The CMYK screen printing workshop was the one I enjoyed doing most, I have a good reason for it: I do not have much strength in my arms to push the ink through the screen unfortunately, but I have noticed that with the smaller print section I was given for this workshop it was different. I felt quite comfortable in the knowledge this technique could be experimental. I definitely need more practice as I am messy and not precise with my registrations. {See picture: Screen Printing CMYK.}

Last but not least, the paper stencil screen printing. This technique made clear the flaw of my upper body strength. The prints could have been better. On a higher note this was the most experimental of all the workshops I have done, and the most satisfying to do. {See picture: Screen Printing Paper Stencil.}

Book binding is my favourite workshop and the one I took more interest in, I was glad to have learnt a new way of Coptic bind. The only problem I have encounter was the precision on folding paper quickly, even if I did bookbinding quite a lot during my final year of College in my spare time, that did not change. Another downside was the thread I was using during the workshop, I kept breaking it or have to cut it slightly to thread it in the needle. On the other hand, I am good at sawing the pages together when I get in the rhythm. I got excited, so much so, that I am considering using the paper I bought to keep creating sketchbooks using this technique. {See Picture: Book Binding}

Overall, this experience was eye opening: it made quite clear what I was good at, what made me excited to keep doing and what would be interesting to keep doing in the future.

The downside of this project mainly consist on my ability to post on the blog. I had a hard time expressing what we had done and post them on time.