Electronic Arts
Screenprinting

Art 147 (advanced: Art 243)

The emphasis in this class is on the continuity of a person's opinion across a range of visual vocabulary. The vocabulary in Art 147 is concerned with Screenprinting, Drawing and Photoshop software. Through a series of lecture demonstrations, there will be an introduction to hands on drawing experience and visual imaging software which will be used to produce full color images.

Screenprinting possesses the ability to combine drawn and photographic ideas; the next step is to incorporate computer modified ideas. A basic photo screenprinting system is available to translate and extend the imagery created on the computer.

The article of translation from computer to print vocabulary is the acetate sheet. Sometimes referred to as a transparency, the image that results is dark enough to selectively prevent exposure of the photo emulsion that coats the screen. When this occurs, the result is a very accurate photographic rendering. The acetate can also be modified in a variety of ways before exposure. At all times, the photo imagery is treated as a contributor to drawing, a kind of unique mark and possessor of detail, and is even cut up and reassembled. Finding that Photoshop software uses terminology such as "pencil" and "paintbrush" and "eraser", and in a variety of permutations, means that vocabulary will be continuous and familiar.

There will be three assignments, with the second and third ones in two parts. The assignments will highlight the essential strengths of Screenprinting and Photoshop: the visceral, autographic touch of the print and its layers of ink and the selecting, transforming, and layering of pixels on the computer. Both media depend on the layering of images or parts of images as necessary to the completion of a project, and this forms the basis for an especially close communication. Since the printed image will in all cases be the end result of each project, Screen vocabulary will be discussed first. This will be followed by the introduction of the software and the merging of the two approaches. The essential image development tools will gradually increase in sophistication and will be discussed in direct relation to the assignments.

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