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𝔣𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔢 𝔞𝔢𝔰𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔠 𝔤𝔦𝔣𝔰 ~ ~ <3 @𝔞𝔯𝔱-𝔴𝔞𝔳𝔢
Souxsie and The Banshees, Spellbound
I may just be prejudiced against fedoras (omfg I hate them), but I think Benedict Cumberbatch would look better in a bowler or porkpie hat (the internet tells me it is a style of fedora) which both have smaller brims. I think his main problems are a) the shape of the hats he's wearing, with the wide brims and pointy angular tops and b) the way they are worn, very low on the forehead etc. Someone should buy him a porkpie and find a way to give it to him, then we can test out my theories.
I'mma buy this porkpie hat, and wait patiently for him to arrive back at Heathrow.
I should be sleeping buuuuut...
instead I am Tumblring. I'm not tired, even though with the amount I've been sleeping I should be.
I'm getting up tomorrow morning and going to school to work in the plastics studio with Triestina-who-still-refuses-to-give-me-her-tumblr (long story). We are making molds guys, MOLDS. I'm assuming she knows how to do it :D Shall be fun. We are doing a semester long investigative project on plastics along with 3 other people, which shall be fun. So far I'm not getting email responses.
TEACH ME DRY POINT. Like I could ask a second year or someone here, but they look at you funny (most of them).
My first question is, now? Over Tumblr?? Because next weekend I am planning to go to one of the portfolio workshops at your school. If you can get us access to a printmaking studio I shall teach you what I know, which is the baby basics of printmaking.
But if you are in favour of a Tumblr response, here is what you do.
I wanted to include images, but I don't know how to do that without doing extra work.
1. Get a sheet to draw on the size you (roughly) want your print to be. It can be plexiglass from home depot, or aluminum, or copper (copper is expensive though).
2. File. The. Edges. Or you'll break either your paper, the press, or both if you're super unlucky. They should be filed to a 45 degree angle.
3. Get a super pointy metal stick and draw your drawing into the plate pretty much as you would do it on paper. Be aware that the different pressure you use causes different lines. You're print comes out opposite to the direction on the plate, so if you want to write on it you scratch it in (super technical terms we use here) backwards.
4. Use a piece of card to spread the ink evenly on the plate. To not get it streaky-mcstreakerton cover the plate with ink in one direction (lengthwise, for example) and then switch to the other direction (ie width).
5. Grab newsprint, or even cheaper, sheets of a phonebook and wipe the ink off the plate using circular motions with the palm of your hand. Take off rings and other jewellery because they'll scratch your plate and ruin it. Keep wiping until there is only ink in the lines you've made in the plate and no finger prints. Wash your hands.
6. Sometime before inking your plate and getting your hands dirty, have your print making/Japanese/etching paper soaking in water.
7. Place your plate face up on the press. Wash your hands again, put your damp paper on top, put the blankets on the paper.
8. PULL!
9. Peel of the blankets and the paper and there's your print!
10. Clean your plate well by lifting the ink with oil and then wiping it clean with vinegar. Wash your hands.
11. Repeat steps 4-10 until you like it/can produce exactly the same image several times.
This is granted you have someone set up the press for you (pressure, template ect.), so if you go in with your plate ready and ask a second year how to set up the press, they would probably be more inclined to help you out than if you were starting from square one. Also, there's a bunch of other cool techniques like Chine Colle and double plating to add colour. A lot of it is getting familiar with the process.
So yeeeah...
I don't think I've mentioned that this semester I have three days of classes, and then four days for homework/sleeping in. So far it's a wonderful start of semester, besides having a teacher that is as vague as... directions in the fog. Even I have NO IDEA what she is getting at, and usually I understand the teachers a little better than others as I've had experience with this. But no, I am 100% lost on the 3 projects we have due next week. Or is it even 3 projects? I HAVE NO IDEA! *sigh*
But yeah, I've had all but one class now, the first one today being the vague one, in which we cut books in half with the band saw. I only have one left this week, that being Paper Cut-outs and 3D Pop-ups. I still am not entirely sure what this class will entail, surely something 100% foreign and exciting, as well as grueling and back-breaking (hand-breaking?). I'm excited, even though everyone I've told seems to think it's a joke =___=; I'm also in history, colour theory, and the experimental material art and design class in which we are making those rings.
And while I am complaining, I am enjoying this. Last semester was far, far too academic for me and I was feeling uncreative. This is more like *sigh* St. Lawrence where we took one academic and everything else was studio courses, but then not, cause you are with all different people in each class pretty much. I'm still missing everyone quite a bit, and the community sense that I really haven't gotten here, where we all knew each other. Like everything about each other! (of course half the class kinda hated the other half by the end) Well, not everything, but all the latest occurrences and gossip in each others lives (haha, I keeeeep seeeeeeecrets). Uuuugh, now I am feeling sad and nostalgic. I want to go back for a visit or something, but that is no use cause only one of us goes there anymore.
Also, I must remark that my Tumblr dash has been taken over by ALL THE FANDOMS, rather than the cute, and art that used to be on it. So much so that it has become embarrassing to browse at school cause it makes me look like a gigantic nerd *sighsigh* which I am, but not everyone needs to know that.
I have comment-y thing-ies available on here, but it turns out I have no way of responding to my comments.
So I'm going to take it off and then if you wanna comment tag Kemmiekins or Kemmie in a reblog with your comment and if I want to get back to you I will.
I dunno ... I hope this works better ...
