I don’t have concrete plans on my next few prints. This week I’m going to fix the ones that were shown and work on finalizing the thesis paper.  I messed with the scans on photoshop, but I’m not sure if anything fruitful will come out of the process. It’s certainly fun, but I’m not sure how fitting it is for the series. I might just have to go back and do some reading for fresh ideas to draw upon. It might just be a writing week with some studio visits for extra feedback.

I think I’m going to start adding color again to the new pieces. Somehow. I think I might send one of these for a show in March. I’m going to try and figure out a cheaper way to frame the work. Maybe put it on mounted board or something? I don’t know. I’m going to revert to modest sized pieces after school is over, that’s for sure. Waaaaay easier to send to shows.

Returning to color! Hurrah! I started this before I went on a month long vacation. Just completed last week. It’s a one color silkscreen with conte/color pencil, spray paint, and tea stain added to it. Far simpler than it implies. When you see the print in real life, parts the paper’s texture fights the print is serendipitiously pretty (it looks like crayon/oil pastel in those areas). It’s sad that I’m becoming an expert at making bad prints look good. I’m working on striping down the techniques and just working on more immediate drawings/prints. I’ve started to work with some collaging, I hope to post that soon.

-Megan

P.S. Crummy photobooth pics of my recent studio progress. A preview to come:

First of three complete. This is the one that I projected to take the longest. The other two will hopefully be quicker since this is the template for them both.

Later!

Megan

edit: See it bigger version here.