What updates are there with my chosen 4 prints for Pretty’s Exhibition?
Last Thursday I called into Lamden galleries in Ipswich to get 4 mounts made up to go in my 4 frames of my images. So on Saturday I took the time to travel to the shop to pick up my 4 mounts for my frames and thought they looked alright. It was raining outside so I just had to make sure they covered up nicely in a big plastic bag wrapped up with tape.
So once I made it back to my university, I then started to prepare my 4 frames ready to put my mounts and images inside. I placed the mounts inside the frames with the images laying on top and then I can align the images the other side making sure either side are even with the mount board. Once I done that I then secure the images to the mount boards by sticking some parcel tape on them so they do not move within the frame. Also I do this so that the image is in good alignment to the mount board and then I can make the addition numbers, title and signatures look better aligned.
What do I think of them now?
I think they look a million bucks better… ‘just a metaphor’ but really they do look so much better once they have been mounted and framed. I do feel quite pleased with myself in the way that I only had a month to do all of this in good time such as playing with images in photoshop and getting the emulsion right and making sure they are perfectly printed. I just feel relieved but most of all, I have enjoyed the fact of doing this process because process is quite important to me as its memory but also it is discovering something new!
I do feel I have discovered something new in the lines of printing through silkscreen and I want to develope my images more by making more than 2 or 3 layers with different tones of greys or another colour. I do have these ideas and thoughts in mind but as I have said before, I have only just learnt to walk rather than running ahead of myself in the idea that this is the finished product. It will not be the finished product because I am always trying new ways of experimenting with silkscreen so of course I will try do more with these images. Just look forward now to present these 4 images in time for the Pretty’s exhibition.
