Studio Day 2

Thursday 5th November 2020

Studio Day 2: Stamp Making

For today's studio activity, consisted of making stamps using cereal boxes and using foam which we can then use for printing. For this task, unfortunately I was an idiot and forgot to bring in a cereal box for this activity! What was worse is the fact that the panic buying has gone as far as to effect our uni shop as there was no Foam or anything that we can create stamps with unfortunately, so we had to economies with using Lino Printing instead because that is all of what was in the shop. which was better than nothing I guess. Just unfortunate that we couldn't actually do any of the printing instructed by Anne.

Anyway, here is what I created:

The Lino Print

For this creation, Anne said to us- to involve the pandemic and COVID 19 in a creative and an out of the box way. So I decided to make a print that was basically of Popcorn being the COVID germs because of the reasons of experimentation practice and because of the fact I work in the cinema and Covid is a germ that is to do with illness, cold and flu and isn't at all nice, so I wanted to find a way to implicate this to this print design. 

Originally I wasn't happy with the result of this Lino print because the germs didn't look like germs to me and didn't go as well as I could have best hoped, but hat is just me being wildly picky, but as I think about it in more depth I did just state I wanted the popcorn germs to not look nice, so it at least works for that element. So it wasn't all bad despite it not being what I was hoping to achieve. 

Result...

This was the print that came out after creating the Lino: Surpringly worked better than I anticipated, what I was much happier about is the fact that when I printed it I had at least 3 people in the studio comment about how they could recognise it being popcorn without me telling them it was, so that was a good ending result to hear. 

Thing I would say i'd do better with is the shape of the popcorn, something I learnt is when I draw on the Lino, use a marker pen that won't rub off when you're half way through cutting the Lino out! We live and learn!

"POP" Goes The Weasel

For this piece, I tried experimenting that one step further and I took a photo of the print I made and I then edited the photo using the Mobile Photoshop using the Pop art filter, to experiment and see if I could push the print one step further and I actually like this piece much better because you can tell its popcorn much clearer with the use of the bright colours and it doesn't matter if the shape of the virus popcorn is out of shape it makes it work better in this piece work somehow, besides popcorn is a yellow like colour and usually on the typical popcorn pots they're stereotypically red and white with the stripes and I like how the word pop is there as well because it sums up exactly what the print is perfectly! As popcorn is called popcorn for a reason... trust me I am one to know!