Practice Workshop II

My second practice workshop was originally intended to be silk screen printing, however I had to change this to mono-printing due to a lack of screens. A few days before the workshop Kellie told me that the media students would be getting involved with it and so I sent her a lesson plan to forward onto the media department.

The idea for the workshop was to split the group into two (2 groups of 4 participants), allowing one to have freedom of colours, materials, etc and the other group (the control group) would be given very strict specification, such as blank white paper and black ink. As I am focusing on loss of identity, I chose to give each group a list of words which link to conformity, as you lose your identity when you conform to others. Each group must incorporate all of the words in their mono-prints, however each design must link together with the rest of their group. This way both groups must conform to the words they are given and the links their work must adhere to, no longer allowing their work to be individual, but part of a collective.

Vicky and I spoke about my third practice workshop incorporating my photography, in which I would develop my negatives to A4, scan them in and then print them onto acetate. These would then be available to the participants to layer onto of one another in any order on an over-head projector. Each participant would be given one colour and one drawing style to use to recreate the image they had created from the acetate prints.