Brick Wall: The finished article!

Da da! And the wall is finished. A career in set design awaits...

Brick Wall: Progress

Today saw me working on the brick wall for another week: sharpening things up, starting to add texture etc. Ian suggested that I might try and brighten things up next week, as my palette has become quite desaturated. I actually like its misty quality, though I take his point. Also that I play more with the juxtaposition of colour, rather than lines, to create the 'fissures' of brick; a really interesting point. George on the other hand said it was 'sumptuous', and bizarrely, that the gummy pink bricks reminded him of the 'inside of somebody's mouth' (something Bacon was fixated with if I recall correctly)...

Bubblegum Queen of Hearts

Had an awesome screen printing class today. After weeks of work, my rude-girl Queen of Hearts is almost finished. I just have to add the keyline (a black outline, that will include her facial features and generally articulate the design), et voila! Some of the prints are really badly registered (i.e. the different layers aren't lined up well), but I'm really chuffed with this one. The colour scheme's nice and zingy (I originally said I wanted it to have a bad shell-suit vibe, a brief I kind of strayed from during colour-mixing), though the photograph doesn't show this very well - and once she's got eyebrows and shiz, I think she's gonna be good. Had an absolute nightmare session last week; had to prepare and strip my screen three times before printing, which meant I got absolutely nothing done and was in a bit of a huff for the duration. So today left me on a real high. If there's one thing I've learnt its that screen printing really demands you be meticulous. You can't cut corners, or rush processes, without your finished product turning out rubbish. So it's quite the exercise in patience.