Getting Printing!

Our prints are going to be slightly smaller than A3 in size and we start of by printing a square background color. I chose a dark grittty grey as my background as its a colour I really associate with the city.

Next I drew the signpost outline on MRPVC using bitumen. I'm using the Rubberbandits' 'That's Limerick City' slogan as the main heading for the sign.

I exposed this image onto my screen.

I printed this in blue as all the signposts on the roads around the city are blue.

I drew the symbols of the sign and the sign posts on MRPVC in pencil and lithography crayon and marker.

Silkscreen

So I'm actually the silkscreen block for these 3 weeks.  For my humour brief  I'm focusing on the things about Limerick city that I find funny.

 

The  signpost on the motorway into Limerick will be the basis of my image.  It has a sign banning horses from the motorway eventhough horses are nearly as common as cars in this city.  I hope to alter the sign to make it incorporate the humor and horses of Limerick.

I've been looking at the work of Perry Ogden and photographer James Horan, who both focus on the Irish horse culture as part of their work.

Humour....or Protest

We've gotten the titles for our new project and we have a choice between humour and protest. Having done mindmaps for the 2 titles, I find myself way more drawn to humour. At the moment, I think I may base my project on humour to do with place : all the funny characteristic things that we associate with certain places.  We are using woodblock and screenprinting techniques for this project, and I'm starting off in the woodblock group first.