Screen Printing 2

The prints have managed to go well today. However I thought that adding the blue made it less clear. However people seemed to like it for this reason. Something that I can do next with this is to see if I can add multiple colours to it. A dry shiney surface would probably be better with this so it can stand out. The price of the A3 printings were expensive aswell, since it costed £5.50 for the lot. However I could make multiple of the same image and post it like a propaganda poster around the place.

Screen Printing

I have brought myself shiney silver paper and red paper. These will be used for the printmaking I plan to do. In the morning I shall get my image and use it for screen printing. The computer rooms have Photoshop so I can go in there and make my photograph black and white to make sure that the light captures most of the image. The image is a section of my recent images that I have used.

Painting on the wall

I have found that painting on the wall is very difficult. The waxy melted crayons doesn't spread easily so I have had to place lots of linseed oil into the paint to spread it. I have used conservative signs on this and used my old figures to dangle on string to make it look like a puppet show. I next want to try and use print making to see what would happen to my other previous painting.

Next step

Now that I've looked into more propaganda, I now want to try paint directly onto the wall. My plan will be to cut up the old figures that I've done and use them for a completely new artwork. I will also try to look at using text to place into the work and make it look like a propaganda painting.

Cultural revolution

Here are facts that I found that could be helpful to my project:-

• Mao’s attempt to reassert his beliefs in China
• feared that others in the party might be taking more of a leader role
• youths were also encouraged to openly criticise the liberals in the Chinese Communist Party and those apparently influenced by Nikita Khruschev of the USSR.
• Red Guards (groups of youths who banded themselves together) encouraged all the youth in China to criticise those who Mao deemed untrustworthy with regards to the direction he wanted China to take.
• Mao had witnessed the removal of a potential rival in the party and therefore saw no need for the Cultural Revolution to continue 
  
  Information from http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/cultural_revolution.htm

Conservative propaganda images

Here are some images that I found on the internet of David Cameron and his conservatives visiting workplaces. I plan to use these images to connect to the communist propaganda posters I've found. I shalll research into the chineese cultural revolution and other propaganda posters.

What I'm currently up to

I now have a few ideas on what to do next. My ideas are :-

• Paint on the floor
• Use a laminated see through paper to paint on then place it on the projector and see what happens

I could also try and do this. I could merge light and painting together and see what happens. I also plan the screen print one of my paintings.

London Trip

When I went to London I managed to visit loads of interesting museums and art fairs. Here were a few o works that I maned to see.

Henry Hudson

Once I had a talk with Adam James, he suggested that I look at artist Henry Hudson. He melts down plastacine with a heater, then uses his fingers to paint with it, like it were oil paint.