Progress

So for this week, its been a lot of planning, looking at things, and spending money. As I have not found a method of risographing, I have altered my printing method to screenprinting. Luckily, I stumbled upon this book, which is amazing and full of awesome work and VERY encouraging for my plan changes to screenprinting (scanned images to come on Monday). I did a bit of letterpress in Camberwell, and I think this book may have convinced me to continue learning more. I may begin taking classes and/or doing a sort of apprenticeship/ internship thing with a man in the area who does letterpress (thanks to the offer by Ellen).
Typically before diving into the drawing part of my projects I do a TON of resourcing. Right now I've got a book out of wood type alphabets and various biology/evolution/animal related books. I will probably take out 12 million books before this is all over.
In terms of carving away at the giant theme of SCIENCE, I have decided to focus on biology things, evolution and the idea of a bestiary. I think I'll be more excited to draw loads of animals and beardy naturalists/biologists rather than planets or whatever you draw for other kinds of science.
In terms of the money spending, I've decided to build myself a screen-printing area in my studio. Currently in the post there are hinge-clamps (screw em into the table to hold frames in one place and allow for lifting and registration), 2 16x20 nice screens and a 12" squeegee. I have a meeting with Nancy tomorrow to talk about studio access forms and what I'll be needing from her.
I will post images from my sketchbooks tomorrow during the day to this post.
Still on the look-out for a shop front to rent. I've got my eye on the #8 store in Nickel's Arcade, and I'm going to figure out who the realtor is sometime this week and try to establish some contact.
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