I have been busy preparing 3 of my drawing screens this week; projecting the drawing up onto the wall to draw up the transparent positive for exposing, retouching the lines on the lightbox and finally getting them onto the screens ready for printing!
I have chosen to only do 3 lace screens & 3 drawing screens to start with to test out the colours and make sure that everything is going smoothly before embarking on the full thing.
Today we had a talk from Simona Dell’agli from ArtQuest on self-promotion and artist’s statements. I have been to 2 of Simona’s talks before and they are always really well informed and packed with useful information for the upcoming artist. I reccommend every art student and new artist to look on ArtQuest and find out all the in’s and out’s of art law and how to promote yoruself professionally as it has been so useful to me and given me an insight into the business side of being an artist.
One of the things she brought up was being a part of a network, a-n magazine being one of these networks. I was able to tell people about my role as a student ambassador and about these blogs as being a great way to document your practice and promote our degree show, and with a free student subscription which is even better! Not many people on my course had heard of the degrees unedited blogs so it was a good chance to tell others about this, hopefully I’ll have a few fellow course mates joining me on here in the next few days.
