Silkscreen

It's been a brutal week. It's interesting that I keep learning that you CAN survive on 4 hours of sleep a night but - I only have 3 and 1/2 more weeks of school!!

For my final silkscreen project I am so excited to be printing onto fabric and then making that fabric into a skirt or dress or something that I can wear! I am going to try out a few different types of fabrics (cotton/poly/jute/linen/silk) to see what I like best.

Leah so gracious gave me some great ideas and helped me find some cool prints on istock which I converted to this Springtime print. The colors will be similar to this, but not exactly. Basically, I strip it of all color, burn it onto my silkprinting screen and then deposit the color layer by layer.

That's five layers of color, folks. Kind of like this. It's hard to explain, but it's really hands on, and sooo sooo fun. I am loving this class. However, my teacher so gracious let me know that it will probably be one of the most difficult projects in the class.

Great.

But I am excited to do it, so oh well.

I have to do all the prep work this week, preparing boards and such (never knew it would be such a situation) and I start printing on Wednesday.

I also have to turn in my fifth (and final) collection for my portfolio on Monday. Then we have the remaining classes to clean up/fix past collections, find a model and someone to take fabulous pictures of everything I've made to put it into my portfolio as well.

Any takers?

So, that's why i haven't blogged so much. I have been busy. But it's exciting to be so near the end!!!!

Helmet head

Ok, I know I am a nerd, but I think I should get a helmet while riding around the city - with all the taxis and dangers that lurk on every corner....
I think I like this one...
Anyone know a place to get cool hemets?

I am slippin’

Unfortunately this morning it was quite literally. I am usually the one that plays the great tricks on April Fools’ Day, but this morning I was taken by my own game! I woke up, stumbled downstairs and went to the bathroom, sat down on the toilet and I noticed the seat was a bit slippery. My lovely husband had put lotion all over the seat!!! Sick. Now I know why he made sure to be the last one to bed last night…..grrrr
Mine was so lame in comparison. I did the old “there’s someone sleeping in the bed trick” with pillows underneath the blanket in the spare bedroom (where his closet is). I need a really good one for next year! Oh well – how I love april fool’s day anyway!