Project Perfection: Part Twelve

Practise and Final Pieces - Hooray!

 Well, here we go guys, Finale! I can't express how happy I am with my prints. Obviously, as practises, they're not all great, but some are truly wonderful outcomes! 

I managed to create quite a bundle of practise pieces for my project on 'perfection'. This excited me as I'm glad I had a good run through with the screen printing and experimenting with different colours to know which goes best with what.



I've managed to fit in a double page spread of some of my practise pieces (the best, I think) which show the effectiveness of screen printing most suitably. I've enjoyed doing this so much, even though it is time consuming to say the least, and not to mention the lectures I have missed to try and get the most out of it. Towards the end, I have to admit I was getting tired of washing the screen every time I needed to change a colour to print with, but that's part and parcel of screen printing.

For my finale, I decided to include Pistoletto's idea of tissue paper on stainless steel, so therefore, I have included his brilliant artwork into mine by using faces of 'Emily' I printed onto tissue paper, cutting them up and then placing the onto 4 round, plain, small mirrors. I decided to go with the blue paint, as it was the clearest. The facts were next: with this I chose the Gold colour I experimented with as it definitely shows over the blue and has a lovely shine to it. Also, it looks all blitz and glamour-like, which fits in perfectly!

I realise now, doing a personal issue for a project takes great guts and perseverance as well as hard work! However, with all of that, I'm so glad I chose to do this issue.

That's it over and done, thanks!

Liv xo

Project Perfection: Part Eleven

Emily+Facts - Warhol Style Preparation!

My previous post was about Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and how I was going to use it for inspiration for my finale! Well, now I can say I'm in the motion of doing just that, by taking one of my 'Emily' photos from my first photoshoot, then editing it on photoshop to nine faces and furthermore printing them onto acetate to then be put onto a screen for me to hand print with different colours.

I've also been looking at statistics and facts during my project about size and young girls in particular. I think if i included these into my prints by printing on top of the nine faces, it would add extra seriousness to the topic and oomph to the prints!

I've been gathering facts and statistics relating to size and models from different websites, in which I've copied onto word, to then print onto acetate and put onto a screen, like the nine faces I've done. With this, I can experiment with contrasting colours to the nine faces and see how well the text goes onto the faces and which colours and mediums to use.

This seems like such an easy yet complicated process but I think it'll be work it, as I've always wanted to know how to do at least one type of print, so I can use this again in future projects. I just wish I had discovered it last year, but It's come in great use with this project as it kind of reflects the whole idea of 'making up a face' as it would be.

Liv xo

Project Perfection: Part Ten

Andy Warhol vs. Andy Warhol 

 Andy Warhol's work has such amazing qualities, I want to take some of his ideas and use them in my work to lead towards my final idea. I love 'Marilyn Diptych', to the left, as one side shows her bright, alive and a vibrant iconic figure whereas the other side is black and white showing her demise, and the fact she's still a well-known figure but has faded through the years.

The image to the right, Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe, is going to be, I've decided, my inspiration for my basis of my final idea. I'm going to use the idea of the nine faces in one picture and instead of copying Marilyn's faces, I'll be adding in my chosen face, from within my photoshoots of this project.

Hopefully, I'll put the nine faces onto a screen, in order for me to print in lots of cool, different colours. I'd like to try a metallic colour. Maybe some blue's and golds. Colours which can stand out and also be mysterious. I want to have fun with experimenting this part of my project because it as a whole is quite a serious problem in today's life.



Liv xo