I got in early today to get my own book underway and managed to get my paper cut to size and boards for my relief print pages. I’ve just finished printing my cityscape pages on my home printer and its just gone 9pm. So not much done on my own book today! I’ll try to get an hour to myself again tomorrow morning using the etching press and that should get me back on track.
It was a more gentle start today as some students went to the get art supplies first thing so I caught up with Marlene, who is working on the Liverpool slave trade, and with Kealawho had set up her pages on Photoshop and had done a really good job of preparing them to use asscreenprint positives.
Jeana also needed help with choosing the right materials and gluing techniques and Alexis was unsure of the appropriate paper to use for her Turkish map fold book. Lottie tried out printing her photo-polymer relief plate which she exposed yesterday and it looked great.
Everyone has a question for me and by the afternoon I had dealt with nearly everyone and managed to have a tutorial with Rachel who was feeling a bit overwhelmed with her work load. We cut back on the amount of pages and made a plan to introduce more colour into her lino prints of childlike graphics from her local playground.
Piet is the first one to finish his book, he has been working on it at home for the last two weeks as he is a part-time student. Its a lovely book object incorporating blue and red wiring and brain images laid over a map of the similar shaped form of the Queens Drive circular road that contains the city of Liverpool.
Josh was having trouble managing the concertina folds on his book about the Liverpool underground rail system and we worked out a better and more accurate arrangement.
Melinda also needed guidance on how to make her hard covers for a stab stitch booklet and Kaleb changed his mind on his black bookcloth covers for his elegant relief printed concertina book.
It was another dynamic day and books were taking shape and starting to look really promising. Sunny’s layered and pierced book is especially fine and has been enviously admired by everyone today. Joe is like me, still struggling to find a solution within the timescale we have left – one more full day and up toFriday lunchtime!!
Thank goodness for the help of Colette for taking time out of her degree show preparations today and for Christine too. Sarah, our print technician, has been working really hard getting screens exposed and cleaned, sorting out problems and making materials available and is also making her own book in the midst of all this. Our 3D technician Steve has also caught the book bug and his own contribution to the project seems well underway too.
