All Done - Almost

Today was a very satisfying day. I re-glazed my bowl. So it's fingers and toes crossed it works this time. I ripped a bit off my clock and lazer cut a new clock face for it (the cardboard face had bobbled, which didn't seem like a good idea. Don't want the hands getting stuck).

And I made a 2D piece which is quite nice. I want to roll my leather newspaper up (which would stop it being 2D) so I made this instead.

I started the process because I wanted to make a screen print. But I felt the finished product was too 'fuzzy' and fussy. However, I really liked the acetate that's used in the process, and decided to use that instead.

I photocopied an A3 copy of a newspaper, glued a stack together, covered the top layer in emulsion and rubbed back once it was dry. I then glued some iconic newsprint photos on, rubbing them with emulsion so they looked more integrated.

Next I rubbed some red acrylic over the quotes in order to give them clarity (and sadly smudged one of them, hence the slight shades of pink).

Finally, I experimented in removing half the thickness of some ridged cardboard in order to make a frame to 'sink' the piece into. I then covered it in wire (representing a street newspaper billboard).

And then baked at 180 for 35 minutes...

It's a quick thing, but worked quite well and got my son talking about it when he came home just now. He was really interested in the pictures, asked if one of them was the Khmer Rouge and we ended up discussing the little girl on the picture. Wouldn't do that if it was an image on your phone.