So as you may know, I’m taking a lot of art classes this term.
2 Digital art classes, and 2 “traditional” art classes.
Here’s a look at a couple of the classes :]
Letterpress
Here’s a photo of one of the first things I did:
Letterpress is going pretty good so far. I can’t wait until I can start using my own graphics to print in here.
Above is a picture of my name tag on my lab book. I didn’t design the nice brown print, but I layed the text for my name.
It’s cool getting my hands dirty again to do art. It takes a whole different type of thinking, ya know?
Today I put together a 30-word paragraph. That alone took at least an hour and a half just to get all the letters together and then make sure they all printed correctly. >.<
Lots of work, but pretty satisfying in the end.
BW Photography
Here’s the baby I get to use. It belongs to my mom, I can’t believe it still works!
It’s not like this is the first time I’ve ever taken photos with a film camera, but it’s weird going from the D90 to this all of a sudden. It’s not as easy to experiment considering you can’t see your results instantly >.<
About a week ago I shot my first B&W roll of film. I brought a small notebook around with me to keep track of the f-stop and the shutter speeds that I used. So much work!! Haha
Then I got to develop the film a couple days ago.
I’d say the weirdest part was stepping into that light tight room to load the film into the reel.
I say weird because I felt like I was doing something wrong by standing in that room with no light on xD
My mom told me how funny it was that the method has pretty much stayed the same after all these years.
I’ll say….
But next was the chemical washing. That was difficult too, but I made it through!
There were a few technical things that went wrong, so I think I’ll do another roll to improve on it. You live and learn, right?
Just today we learned how to print the images in the darkroom. That got me pretty excited!
I can’t wait to print some of my photos and show them! I just have to go and get my supplies first.. Lol
Overall, these two classes are proving very rewarding, but are gonna take a lotta lotta manual labor to get things right. I’m looking forward to it!
I’ll have to budget my time a lot better now though, that’s for sure
Anyways, thanks for reading this!
I will try to take more pictures sometime so you can actually see what’s involved.. mostly in my Letterpress class… cause I don’t know how many pictures I can get in the darkroom xD Haha
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