Nomad - Week Five

Most of the class did the same thing I did and used the morning to do their photocopying as we have the morning off on our print days and we work in the afternoon. I arrived early but I suspected (and was right) that everyone would be coming in and the photocopier would be really busy. So instead of wasting money and paper photocopying my drawings a million time I scaled the drawing down to A4 using the photocopier before anyone else arrived and scanned them into the computer.

I then used photoshop and extracted interesting motifs and strips of pattern that I put repeats of onto one piece of paper and printed that one then moved onto the next motif and did again and so on.

So when I left the library and saw the huge line for the photocopier I was really glad I had all the prints I needed. I went to the classroom and taped two pieces of A3 together as I had forgotten my A2 piece of paper. We use A2 as the screens we have here are A2. I cut off a centimetre each side to account for the glue on the screens and started cutting out the printed images and experimenting which how I would put them on the screen.

I would've done this on photoshop but the classroom is in another building from the library so it would mean having to change building every time I wanted to ask a question.

I suppose it's good exercise going back and forth between buildings.

Bobbi Jean Shields
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