#seriography

[ellielol]

i finally got around to scanning some of the silkscreen prints i made a few months ago! it's titled "Off-Topic".

this was a two-screen print; one screen was used for the text/outlines, and another screen for the rainbow and AnimeFreakz logo. when printing the rainbow wolf's color, the AnimeFreakz logo was taped over, and vice versa.

a detailed rundown of my thoughts behind the piece below the break!

i took a printmaking class as an elective in my last semester of undergrad. the goal was to both challenge myself and experiment with art in new ways. this wound up being a rather difficult process! all of my classmates had years of experience of art and were majoring in studio art. meanwhile, i had been doing some digital art on-and-off for like 6 months when the class started. i was frustrated at how my prints never seemed to come out right.

when it came time for silkscreen, i decided to try something different and leaned into my status as an amateur artist. most of our previous printing methods had been focused on detailed, beautiful lines. i wanted to try depicting the text-based world of an internet forum instead. and what could be more 'amateur' than a child's MS Paint sparkledog?

i've got a strong interest in researching digital culture and what not. with the emergence of "webcore" and similar trends, there's been a kind of romanticization of the forum, a desire to RETRVN or whatever. this isn't necessarily a critique of that, but it is attempting to depict forums as i remember them: places for nerds to be oddly hostile to each other for falling outside of an arbitrary line. drawing a magical girl's cat sparkly cat familiar is fine. drawing a sparkledog is furry shit. you can get yelled at by someone named TranquilTom for not being a true Anime Freakz. it's funny! it probably also caused the child who posted it to develop some issues. both of these can be true. my goal isn't to embrace or condemn this past era of the internet, but you're welcome to read it as either.

lastly, i thought it was interesting to depict the digital world in printmaking. both prints and digital art are supposed to be infintiely replicable. printmaking was in many ways replaced by computers! to depict the straight lines of a digital UI with hand-brushed lines felt kind of interesting to me. the misalignments and different color paper are purposeful. just as these things can be infinitely replicated, these experiences of getting yelled at for posting bad as a child on a forum was replicated a lot in different places online. you can imagine each print as the same thing happening again and again, in a way.

[co-grueters]

[posterdrops]

Reposted from @bushwickprintlab This is a wonderful suite of prints we produced for @welsbrowatch Designed by Oscar Bastidas @oscarbastidasv 100% of profits benefit @yotengounsueno_ an organization that feeds and helps support 400 children in the Petare neighborhood in Caracas, Venezuela, Oscar’s homeland. They are part of the Staten Island Collection, based on food nostalgia. These prints are still available on the Welsbro website in the Merch section. Welsbro is a watchmaker which hand assembles watches using vintage parts. The colors and graphic style are perfect for screen printing. @un.smashed_art did the digital prepress work and was able to squeeze two additional ‘colors’ out of the crafty use of halftones in the Gabagool print . Printed by @katilacker Paper by @talasonline and @legionpaper 3 Editions of 35 prints each, 5 colors, 11x15.5” Full Bleed on 250gsm Stonehenge White #printmaking #silkscreen #screenprinting #seriography #serigrafia #popmembers #printedbyhand #printedinnyc #graphicdesign #printisnotdead #stonehengepaper #twgraphics #welsbrowatch #italianice #gabagool #mutz #foodinart #pizzarat #godzilla #sandwich https://www.instagram.com/p/ChD9hoUO0NV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jwdragon-blog]

Posted @withregram • @bosman_richard New screen print print available at Multiplo #multi_plo . . . #contemporaryprintmaking #contemporaryprints #seriography #silkscreen #contemporarysilkscreen #printmaking #prints #contemporaryart #neoexpressionism #richardbosman #nycart #hudsonvalleyart #mood https://www.instagram.com/p/CT5ZPzVFIec/?utm_medium=tumblr

[michelle-a-law-blog]

Self-portraits: A woodblock print, a screenprint, and a copper plate etching. Titles: "Still no", "Mandorla", and "Autographic Womb" #printmaking #intaglio #seriography #silkscreen #screenprinting #woodcut #woodblockprint #art#artistsoninstagram #artist

[rubberctprints]

The pallet of screens is finally here! They have been sitting in a warehouse for a bit & need a lil TLC. Whose ready to get Screenprinting!? 70+ house screens just arrived all the way from Georgia. It's time to make some amazing fine art prints! BTW do you know we do private Screenprinting parties? That's right the RCP team doesn't print t-shirts but we can teach you how! Great way to spend the evening with family & friends. We do however take commissions for fine art prints, special projects and gifts. #screenprinting #screenprint #seriography #make #fineart #uptake #upkeep #restore #fabricprinting (at Rubber City Prints, Inc.)

[nothinbutfreckles-blog]

Fire Series. Screenprinted rice paper lamps for my printmaking final- Coushatta fire legend, Icarus, and Aztec 5 Suns legend 🔥☀️ #fire #mourninginmay #ricepaper #seriography #lamps #layersonlayersonlayers (at Tyler School of Art)

[nothinbutfreckles-blog]

Fire Series. Screenprinted rice paper lamps for my printmaking final- Coushatta fire legend, Icarus, and Aztec 5 Suns legend 🔥☀️ #fire #mourninginmay #ricepaper #seriography #lamps #layersonlayersonlayers (at Tyler School of Art)