connor

Hello welcome to my blog i am connor chen.

Current student at SCA... this is my research blog... i should probably make a website but i've already come so far i cannot stop now...

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Glazed everything from assignment 1 today!

Didn't get any photos of the vessels, but most of them were just covered in a clear gloss to emphasise the colour from the underglaze.

Starting some planning for assignment 2, the proposal for the final projects.

For project A, the 60 cm figure, I decided to continue exploring what I was doing in my marquettes. Making a larger dog figure fucking a mailbox.

Had a 1 on 1 with Cybele about the project

construct using coils

focus on proper joining via scoring and slip

use a wooden dowel for the support of the mail box

construct figure first, using a block as a place holder for the mail box

keep the proportions of my style

texture / details with carving (body hair etc)

Will need to research some artists!

Finished!

All pieces are bisqued and underglazed, but no glaze yet.

A few i really like

This morning I used the one arm bandit to print a bunch of the missiles on litho and butcher paper. It was quite easy to use and I printed 15 on iltho and 8 on butcher.

The set up was quite easy

Choose a correct size squeegee and secure to the arm. Put down acetate for registering. Secure the screen to the side arms with screws (this way you can lift them all together.) put some pads of card stock under the frame of the screen. Check the weight so that it's comfortable to print. Put paper under the screen, turn on the fan so the paper is suctioned to the surface. Push the ink through with the squeegee from left to right, like rowing a boat. slowly lift up the screen and set the screen up. Turn off the fan and remove the paper to dry. Flood the screen from right to left.

I'm really happy with the results! I think i'll only paste up the litho ones as I like the contrast of the white and black, but it was good to test the butcher. The butchers was a bit too thin, the ink made it buckle.

Timeline for the next few weeks for the assignment:

Week 4

screen print missile

digitally print posters

week 5

screen print speech bubble

get documentation of all works (not pasted up / installed)

submit on canvas documentation

week 6

paste up / install

finish slides

submit video presentation and slides to drop box with supporting material and doco of paste up

In class we looked at Barbara Kruger. Here's stuff from the in class exercise.

Glaze and oxides!

BEFORE:

After:

Also bisque fired the autofellatio dog and the walnut man - they will be glazed after bisque fire. I still need to finish some glazing - i want to paint a small tear drop on every dog.

Got my prints back from Nick. Made the screens for the speech bubble paste up that i'll screen print. I got the other posters back too and they are basically done. I trimmed off the bottom section that said "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be Free" after discussion as it didn't seem like it needed it, the image spoke for itself. For the text focus of the posters will be the structure of the diagram and the text in the speech bubbles.

Coat the screen with emulsifier, let dry in dark space. Make sure when putting coating on, choose an applicator that does not touch the edges of the screen, only mesh to ensure correct tension.

Expose with positive on printed tracing paper using light table. Place positive down before the screen in the orientation you want. Settings: Preset A, vacuum 8 sec, expose 75 sec.

Wash out un exposed parts with power washer, dry.

Screen ready for use !

Gonna print it with the one arm tomorrow, hopefully get a bunch of the missiles done. There is some problem for the assignment tho, ill be very busy next week so will have to find time to do pasteups. Though if the submission on the friday isnt the presentation then I can do the pasteups the week after in week 6.

ALSO

I did the early feedback quiz :)

Anyways, came in today to trim the wheel thrown vessels from last week.

working with this carved brick texture, the last one trying to mimic a well. I might sculpt a little frog to go at the bottom but it might be too dry for that now.

I wanted to throw some more vessels but I failed miserably today. These are my plans. I want to throw a taller cylinder and make it into a castle, and a mug with the brick pattern as well.

The brick pattern definitely links them as a series, but I don't want to put them on all of the vessels. I also carved out little notches onto the cup vessel, as little castle windows. I think a repeating of these two on all the vessels should connect them clearly, regardless of shape.

I want to glaze these with a thicker glaze? So they can go into the cracks / grooves of the brick pattern. Maybe a different colour underglaze as well, for the little notches that are meant to be windows.

I also finished the last figuration - hollowed out the center and rejoined them.

Talked to Josh and Nick! Will be printing the missile with the speech bubble using screen printing, one two seperate screens since I'll be cutting them out and positioning them while actually pasting up. I've sent the file to Nick in the actual size to print a positive. I'm aiming to get the screen made this week, (positive, coating, exposing) and using the one arm press to print lots of them next week. For the speech bubble itll be on a smaller frame and i'll be able to hand print it.

I've also sent over the posters to Nick to print out in A2, which will probably be done this week too.

Some info I got from talking to Josh:

Here are the finalised designs for all the posters!

for the pasteup ones, its between a bitmap and the threshold. I'll consult Josh and decide depending on which one would be better for screen printing.

Hopefully I'll be able to get the screen made tomorrow.

Notes from today!

confirmed the designs ill be picking with luke - Just do all of them!

The plan is to have;

this poster, on its own.

These two, as a pair that will be pasted up next to eachother.

And a cut out paste up of this design.

For the materials - I plan on screen printing and creating multiples of the last cut out design. I'll print out just the missile and a empty speech bubble to create a template, and fill in the words. This way I can put different text on the same design.

For the other two posters, I think itll probably be best for time and effort to have them digitally printed. the two colours of red and black would be annoying for screens, and I don't plan on making multiples.

I want to play with a contrast between the unfeeling, straight line and bold qualities of digital type faces and diagrams with the hand-drawn quality of the cute cartoon missiles.

For the site, i was thinking it could be pasted near engineering buildings in usyd / sydney that have ties / support for the IDF. But I want to actually paste them up and that might be too risky... I'll probably just put them in city / inner west alley ways.

The plan:

Week 3

Finalise designs of all the posters

Week 4

consult josh and nick

make the screen for the cartoon speech bubble missile design

screen print multiple copies of design 3

Week 5

print digital posters design 1 and 2

install / pasteup and document

online submission - photo of poster and mockup / install

Week 6

submission of video presentation and slides

Also here are some mockups we made in class today

Didn't get any photos but I made 4 vessels! Was a big struggle, im still not very good at wheel throwing but finally managed to make something larger than a thumb that didnt collapse on itself.

Planning on trimming / carving some brick patterns in them when they are leather hard.

Also saw the presentation from week 1, here are some that I liked.

Margaret Bohls

cant find the other ones. i cant find the presentation on canvas. help.

Started making the 6 small marquettes. My ideas are inspired by queer bodys, eroticism but not sexy? Hairy legs, big tboys.

One of the figures isn't super from that inspiration - a cowering folded over figure, and a large walnut shell that will fit over him. I dont know.

Some ceramics I saw recently that are inspirng: